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Old Shiremoor

A Memory of Shiremoor.

Does anyone have any photos of old Shiremoor as I remember it in the 1960s? The fibreglass factory, the brickworks, the Methodist chapel and the colliery rows, old Emerson Place, the area behind the Blue Bell. The dolly washer on the pit heaps behind Stanton Road, the burn that's now in a pipe that I used to dam and flood the fields! Best playground a young kid could have, no wonder kids now have nothing to do, no pit ponds even... That whole area was great to grow up in, there were loads of old buildings to play in and ponds to raft on. The place is sterile now and heartless and soulless too.


Added 19 June 2011

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Comments & Feedback

Hi again Kevin, are you aware that on Facebook there is a closed group site called Shiremoor, West Allotment and Backworth. It's easy to join and there are lots of local photo's and information of the area. I hope this is of help to you. Regards, Glen Stephenson.
Anyone remember a wooden building close to the brick factory which I believe was a dancing school which I believe went by the name of Ken parks ?

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