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Gosforth, High Street 1956
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Though only a couple of miles to the north of Newcastle, Gosforth had a character and identity of its own. Every year during the last week in June the town would be packed with people for Race Week and the running of the Northumberland Plate. In 1947 over 57,000 punters flocked to Newcastle Races on Plate Day to see the first running of the race since 1939. The winner was Culrain by three-quarters of a length from Procne and Find The Lady.

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Gosforth, High Street 1956

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Brandling Park, A Little Park, Between The Moor And Gosforth
This was called Tittie Bottle park because all of the Nannies met there with children in their prams from the nobs houses at that end of Gosforth
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Added 04 July 2018

Gosforth 1960s / 1970s
A friend and I were reminiscing recently. Our conversation came round to an old shop at the bottom of Salters Road, next to the double bus stops opposite The Globe. We could recall it only sold sweets and tobacco but couldn't remember the name. We widen our search via Facebook and our elderly parents and their friends but still no joy. Then on 3rd February 2016, Ian Ramsey spotted that the original name ...see more
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Those Were The Days
I remember Gosforth High Street as a being a fun place with all the great shops; the Toy Cupboard now Robinsons, the photography shop, there was Maynards the sweet shop, Boydelles the toy shop, and Moods which was a gift shop. I remember in the 1960's they would use the old war sirens if there was a fire anyway, to warn people they were releasing the fire engines. There was a supermarket called Robson and ...see more
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Shops I Have Loved...
I grew up in Bath Terrace in the early 1960s and the photo of Wilkinsons brought back memories of its pre-supermarket days of high dark wood counters, butter in barrels and the smell of roasting coffee. Pumphreys with the pastel coloured sugars and exotic coffee beans, Moods where I bought a first gift for my mother of a tiny china cat in a woven basket (I still have it), Thorpes the hardware shop which I ...see more
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