Off Topic Old sunderland

The ****ing what?

 

Aye, I actually worked with the bloke who owned and sold it, Alfie Maw, he sold it to Wimpey who then built houses on the place. Then as part of the deal he bought a farm down Ferry Boat Lane, it was just behind the footy pitches, then Nissan came on the scene and bought him out. Instant millionaire mate.

 

Very interesting facts, that are new to me, was it the same Maw who owned the Nil Desperandum, the flash git.

 

He was part of the family that has the coal business JD Maw, but I don't think he got on with them and wouldn't have mattered if he had £10m, he still had his first fiver He even got given one of the last council houses built in Washington, the council just threw every penny at it being the last one to be built and he wangled himself one, free of charge the jammy twat.

He was funny as ****, he used to give me a lift to work in a right old clapped out Volvo estate, but he used to take the goat to work and the ****er was sat in the back seat with a big bail of hay in the boot. Nice bloke though when you got to know him.

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I forgot to add that he used to always wear a wooly hat, never took it off and the goat used to pop it's head over the seat and chew his ****ing hat and the daft **** used to be swerving all over the road while he tried to punch this daft ****ing goat.

I used to get a lift off another bloke who drove a reliant robin if I didn't have bad luck i'd have nee luck.

 

Welder's got the best stories

Goat punchers.

 

100% right there like..... Amazing Ice Cream

 

Is the Queen's Cafe at Seaburn still going?

 

I remember the farm at the top end of ferryboat lane, probably the same one of which you speak, but the farmers name was Roach, this was early sixties. Can anyone recall that name?

 

We used to gan nicking Narkies and Tateties.Got caught a few times though

 

It would have been late 70's maybe even early 80's when Alfie took it over mate, can't remember Roach but I can remember the farm being there in the 60's.

 

I lived on narkies for about 6 months mate. We used to go to school (red house comp) get our mark then bunk off and spend the full day ferreting about here, there and everywhere cos to us back then it was better than school and we literally lived on narkies and spent our dinner money on tabs. Me and my mate and a lass who shall remain nameless, but she used to let us play with her tit's that's as far as it went like but what a memory the narkie field used to be at the top end of downhill right next to Boldon Golf Course. We got caught eventually and got lashed to **** by the headmaster and his cane in front of everyone at school during assembly.

Great times though.

 

He used to get a new goat every year cos they used to have it for Christmas dinner You just knew for that first lift after the Christmas holidays that he would turn up with a baby goat on the back seat.

 

Not the same one by a country mile. but probably a relation, the farm we and others are on about was huge but deserted and being used as a piggery in the 50's, it was overrun with huge brown rats that we used to try and catch, but fortunately never did. We were one of the first flush of Redhouse tenents and the countryside around, the Boaty and Swallow Dene etc were a far cry from the Irony and Cage Hill.

 

Can you remember the old farm house on bunny hill? it used to be slightly further down from where the walk in center is now, I went to school with the lad who lived there but i'm ****ed if I can remember his name. It wasn't ran as a farm but had been a farm house previously.

 

I lived at Redhouse in the 1950's too.

 

Go on then . . . .

 

Just remember Magog removal vans being there

 

That's right mate, that's the place I was on about. The place was like Steptoe's Yard but it had originally been a farm I think.

 

Yes ,was a farm ,hence the name of one of the newer estate to spring up in the fifties/sixties Town End Farm!
There was also a small quarry just as you exited the farm and began to climb up Bunny Hill.

 

Aye I remember it, it's all filled in now like. I learnt to ride a motorbike up there mate, and me uncle lived in number 10 opposite the garage. Also went to the Boys Club and did a bit of boxing in me early day, Gordon Ibbitson used to run the place.