Do you know any of the Hartley’s’ Thompson’s’ State’s or Haladanes?
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Off Topic I Remember When
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Used to spend hours looking in the yellow bird shop. My first income came from them used to breed mice for them to sell, think I got threepence each for them.
Used to virtually live in the Mill between 70 to 73Oh l remember often walking back from Seaburn to Pennywell (after spending the bus money at the fair).
Then we graduated to to cadging our bus fair on the way back ‘missus can you help l’ve lost me bus fare’ - Then straight in the sweet shop and then started cadging again - often got our bussy money 3 times over
Can’t forget the bus either - corporation bus No. 18 Seaburn Camp to Grindon Lane, down behind the Grindon Mill (me dads local).
Aye those were the days.
Spesking of Pennywell and Grindon snyone else spend the day at the sandhills between Grindon & Thorney Close. So many summer days there - god l’m on my second childhood now - sitting here with a smile on me face in another bloomin country. 
Spesking of Pennywell and Grindon snyone else spend the day at the sandhills between Grindon & Thorney Close. So many summer days there - god l’m on my second childhood now - sitting here with a smile on me face in another bloomin country.
I remember that before the road was built through it.. Ridiculous riding your bike off the top
and not giving a flying one if you lodged in the sand and actually went flying off.
Aye my best man’s wife was from up there, used to get in the Thorney close club most Sundays as wellSpesking of Pennywell and Grindon snyone else spend the day at the sandhills between Grindon & Thorney Close. So many summer days there - god l’m on my second childhood now - sitting here with a smile on me face in another bloomin country.
How about the dene behind St. Annes between Ford Estate & South Hylton.
A few scuffles with lads from Ford est. over the years - Mallams farm always a horse or two to feed and try and ride bareback.
A few scuffles with lads from Ford est. over the years - Mallams farm always a horse or two to feed and try and ride bareback.
Just remembered a funny story , me and Fred had just walked Jean home and on the way back went for a was round the back of the shops, when we came out there were two coppers in a panda carI remember that before the road was built through it.. Ridiculous riding your bike off the top
( how the hell they got in that I don’t know ) anyway they gave us a bollicking and told us to get in the back and they would run us Home.The twats kicked us out in Durham.
Clatchy (Claxheugh) rock area. Still knock about with a couple of the lads from there.
I was probably one of them from Ford Estate, had some right battles over that swing.
Me and my mates used to pinch all the empty pop bottles from behind the boozer and take them to the local paper shop for 10p a bottle
Born in a little shop in Hume Street, Millfield. Later lived in Hylton Stores (now gone), South Hylton, a new shop, built for my parents, would have been 61 to 63. Remember walking across the fields, along the river and up to Penshaw monument with Mr Anderson, an old gent that lived along the road.