Edith Brough Childrens' Home - a Memory of Whickham.
Hi my name is Elizabeth Young, or was then, as I am now married. I, along with my three older sisters, Muriel, Margaret and Anne went into the Edith Brough home on Whaggs Lane in 1953 and stayed there until we left secondary school. We were previously in the Edward Brough Home (sister home) in South Shields from 1947 to 1953.
I have happy memories of my time there as one of at least twenty children. The other children in the home were Dorothy and Muriel Padmore, Brenda, Kathleen and Mary Waugh, Doreen and Bobby Futers, Joan Petree, Colin Armstrong, Rosemary and Winifred Hughes, Vera Jackson, unfortunately I can't remember them all!! I left the home in 1960 and went to live at the YWCA in Newcastle before sharing a flat with two friends. We all attended Whickham Front Street School as non of us passed the 11 plus!!
The one thing I hated was being called "Betty Blue" and being dressed up in blue!
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Yes Dorothy had a lovely voice and appeared in all the plays and musicals put on by the school such as Hansel and Gretel comes to mind also Toad of Toad Hall.
Each year we have a school reunion in South Shields and Dorothy and Muriel are often mentioned. unfortunately no one knows what happened to them except that they were sent to London and we never heard of them again, but we all have very fond memories of them.
I do know they came from North Shields area and we would love to see them again. anyhow as I said it was lovely reading your memories of the girls, but I can believe every thing was not as it seemed there.
I wish you well
regards Lilian Milne