Downs Road Newcastle

A Memory of Newcastle.

I remember living in Downs Road, Newcastle at about 3 years old (1944). We lived in a house opposite a green and the sea beyond. When my younger sister was only a few months old, for some reason the night before, my mother put her in a different place in the bedroom. It's a good thing she did because that night the ceiling fell in and a huge lump of plaster was in the cot where her head would have been, I remember that incident.
I remember starting school. It was a nearby school, I wonder if it is still there.?
Also we had friends who lived in Newcastle, we visited one day and our friend had left his keys in his car just outside his house, the road was on a slight hill. I got into the car and set it going. Our friend saw the car going past his front window down the hill and shot out and stopped the car and dragged me out of the car and gave me such a spanking /thrashing (on reflection obviously out of fear of what could have happened). I'd love to hear of more about Newcastle ?
Heather

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