Milling Street

Hi, my grandparents Ethel and Jimmy McCombie along with my Aunt Cathy used to live above the Co-op in Milling Street does anyone remember them. My mum Sadie is 90 and would love to hear from anyone with memories from the street. My uncle and aunt Natty and Martha Logan also lived in Milling street with there Daughter Winnie and her husband Ernie Hidgkinson.

I was born and raised in 112 milling street my mother was Eva pitt my gran lived at 110 I remember Eddie McNeil with one leg Bartie reed Charlie Murray Alan potter the bell family Davy Troy Albert tyrryl joe Ferguson my gran was Mary walker Louie and arniepearson who taught me to swim milling street was a great place to grow up I went to school at rose street school played a lot on the rabbit banks close to te Rex cinema the horns and the rats and Bensham cinemas and we played football on the old redhaugh pit how many kids had such an abundance of playground choices I was always happy living there there were many great characters living in that street one guy worked on the swing bridge a policeman and a train driver and my dad was a soldier then truck driver after the war I remember being taken down to the air raid shelter the bonfires in the back lane on guy fawkes night and school weeks at Hexham school camp oh happy days there was an old Jewish lady lived in milling street and me and a friend used clear all the ice and snow from the front of her house winter time

My grandfather Sidney Denenberg lived with his family in 32 Milling Street from around 1911. Grandfather moved to Norway around 1915 and died here. His wife and children stayed in England. Grandfather’s wife Fanny and one daughter, Minnie, lived in Milling Street for many years. They died in 1970 and 1971 and are buried in Newcastle.

Is there someone who remember the Denenberg’s? And does someone has some pictures from the street? Would be nice to see :)

Dean Denenberg, Oslo, Norway