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Saturday, 31 July 2010
Friday, 30 July 2010
Sandhead Holiday
I think the last holiday we had all together in the Sandhead Cottages. (Below)
- Going by train
- Coconut shy's
- Pool at the pub
- Portpatrick walk
- Burn by the cottages
- Shrinking crisp packets under the grill
- Walking across the sands to Sandhead for the shop
- Some walking and some getting a lift from Stranraer station
- Trying (without success) to catch fish
- Tea at the Brewin's
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Random Hartlepool Memories
Random Memories from Park Road & Hartlepool (I'm sure you could add your own)
- Tea on a Trolley on Sunday
- School uniforms on the banister on Monday morning
- Cornflakes scooped from a Tupperware box
- Packed lunches & Orange curd sandwiches – (Sandwich Spread)
- Union rate negotiated pocket money
- Grandma’s Easter Eggs
- Train journey’s ending at Burton-on-Trent for Nana’s
- House swaps with the Clark family
- Grandma’s TV coming downstairs for Christmas
- Taking Grandma back to Shawmills in the spring
- Graduating from one bedroom to the next as the house emptied
- The Siva’s, Bolan’s and Whites and of course Margaret Clark as neighbours
- The brick built barbecue and bonfires down the garden
- Taking the table through the window and down the garden for an outside tea or dinner and those checkered table cloths and table clips
- The then seemingly long walk to St Joseph’s school
- Beach picnics at the Blue Lagoon
- Picnics in “the fields” and walk through to Dalton Piercy
- Nana’s visits and the chocolate & mint cake
- Tim’s War Board
- No TV
- Middleton Grange Shopping Centre and the curly ramp before the roof
- Clare’s 18th at Foxy’s nightclub
- Christmas Cards on string – everywhere
- York Road Pet Shop
- Postcards collected and on display for a whole year
- Murphy
- Sunderland for Basketball on Sunday’s by train
- Tommy the butcher who seemed to know us all personally on the way home from school
- Old Asda & Fine Fare
- Dyke House School for swimming lessons
- The Headland for carnival & school band on a truck
- The Hartlepool Show
- The Raft Race & flying birdman from the Pier
- The Blacksmith’s forge at Hartlepool museum
- Hartlepool emulates Liverpool with Dock Rock
- Radio 1 Roadshow’s at Seaton Carew (Peter Powell I seem to recall)
- Binns
- The Old Library at Church Street
- Family Sports Days at English Martyrs
- The coal fired boiler in the kitchen
- The coal bunker
- Fudge the Rabbit
- Sunday best for Church
- The round copper topped table
- Turkey Soup
- Climbing the cherry tree
- Quince Jelly
- The Heap
- Fr Croghan (at anytime of day or night)
- Pilchards
- Home made chips
- Scraps from the chippy
- The six o’clock big ben bong’s on Radio 4 and the Shipping Forecast with tea
- Bunk Beds
- The Sunderland & Shields Building Society
- Francis the goldfish
- Plastic Milk Tokens
- New windows in the attic room
- Bread tags on bicycle cables
- Viva, Viva, Lada, Peugeot (7 seater), Rover, Rover, Peugeot, Peugeot, Renault
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