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.
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.
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.
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 car ( 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.
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.
