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A Trip Down Cargo Fleet

A Memory of Cargo Fleet.

I lived in Cargo Fleet in the back end of the 1960s. There was a shop on the end of our row. I went to Lawson School. We played near a beck or river near some works. I fell in and was pulled out by a young teenager. I never got to thank him as I would not be here now residing in Ripon with a wife and 3 children. Does anyone know the name of the street as I was very young? Tthere was a football ground a bit further down the road .

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There were a few streets with shops, Keith. Ours was one of them - Chester Street.

The football field was a couple of streets away from us.

I was born in Chester Street, 1962 and left there 1970.
By C Elliott on Tue May 19th 2015, at 6:25 am
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I remember top Taylors and bottom Taylor's, used to get the invalid toffee from bottom Taylors and they sold cigarettes in 5,s. then there was Dougie Owen's post office, Snaith's, which my dad Jim Leech, later bought from his sister Rose, and then don't forget the only pub The Ruin....
By aliphill2 on Sun May 24th 2015, at 2:57 pm
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I think there were two Leech brothers living next to each other on Chester Street. # 14, kids were Lollo and Brian and sister next to #12, Malcolm and others. Malcom was in the army for a while I think. All born mid to late 40’s, demobilization kids.
By artlynas on Thu Feb 22nd 2018, at 8:45 pm
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Born in 1947 and also left in 1970. Moved to Redcar with a Bedford Street girl and on to Canada in 1973.
By artlynas on Thu Feb 22nd 2018, at 8:48 pm
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The football ground belonged to Teeside Bridge Football Club and the ditch you fell in ran through Teeside Bridge Galvanising plant and had lots of industrial and human waste in it. You were lucky to survive at all. We used to shoot stuff with air rifles down there. Still had a shelter we played in too, called the whole place the ‘tip’. No wonder the Crown was nicknamed ‘ The Ruin’.
By artlynas on Sun Feb 25th 2018, at 9:39 pm
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