Gilbert Scott My Father And Me 1915 To 1998

A Memory of Washington.

My dad was born 1915 and I was born 1947. At the age of seven he went blind so he went to Queen Victoria Blind School in Newcastle till he was 15 years old. When he came out he learned to play the accordion, he went round the clubs in the North East and played to people in the pubs and clubs. When he was 6 he went blackberry picking on the Glebe pit railway line with my aunt, there was a train coming and my aunt called out to him to tell him but he did not hear her, his hand was over the line getting blackberries and the train ran over his left hand, taking it off at the wrist. He played in the clubs till he took ill in 1996. We lived in Grassmere Terrace in my grandfather's house, Thomas William Scott. He died in 1964 so we lived there till I got married in 1968. We used to go down to Patterson Town and deliver papers. All my great-grandfathers lived down there, there were two streets and the canteen. All the houses had a back yard. In Brady Square we liked to go to Rutters shop when I was 12, he had everything in there, you could get anything for two pence to one shilling.

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