BaileyFamilyMemories: 2010

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

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Dad Retires

Joined up family effort to get our message across!

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 18^th 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

Camping & Crowtree

(1979)

(1983)

Bailey's always building or erecting something, whether it be tents or leisure centres.

Joint Medal Winners for Hair!

Catholic Teachers Sports Day, English Martyrs, St Francis 1982

Teenagers

Mum and Dad as teenagers. I'm sure Mum told me once that they had intended to have 13 children! What I want to know is who is the dodgy looking geezer peering over the hedge?

Zac modelling yet more of Nana's knitting - with his own addition of daisies on the top - very pretty. x

Drinks are on me

Clem at Dan and Julies wedding venue - the day before they tied the knot.

Kisses for Nana and Poppa from Nancy.

Luf you.

xxx

(Our spare bedroom is still and only referred to as Nana's room!)

More amazing Nana knitwear. We love the peruvian hat and it just keeps going – at this rate she'll be wearing it as a teenager.
Nancy says "Thank you Nana!"

It also reminds me of the time that Maureen had a really bad back and was laid up for weeks. Unable to just rest she lay and knitted tiny woolly hats for African babies – a real inspiration.

xxx

ONE LOVE!

Nuff said!

Harrison Bailey

Pre, post and during the Harrison Bailey union. When we say we couldn't have done it without you – that is meant literally. What a fantastic day we had – made extra wonderful by all our family (including those in the pool)!

John does another great job with the bunting.

Thank you all.

xxxx

SuperNan 2!! with Jump Buddies

Dug out of the archives!

Clare & Dympna look very Top Gun!

Ward Jackson Park

Loads of memories of Ward Jackson Park growing up. No photos of that time, but found this one of Dan, Clem, Ruth & Thea (bump) and Mum on a trip to the swings - must have been Christmas 2004 I think.

Walks with Poppa

Clem and Poppa enjoying a walk in Craster (2007) on one of many babysitting 'tours of duty'. Thanks for all your help. Col x

Bailey children when we were all under one roof

Two photos showing all of the Bailey children apart from Dan who was yet to land. Those school photos were a bit of a juggling act but worth the effort.

Nice Knits Nana

Nana and Poppa

There once was a Nana and Poppa

Who kept giving birth to a whopper

Populated Hartlepool good and proper

Now they had 8 before Poppa could stop 'er

Following the example they'd been shown

These 8 whoppers had their own

Behaviour Chairman Mau would not condone

But Nana and Poppa will never be alone.

SuperNan!

Not sure about the year - but this is Mum astounding us all by absailing the Tyne Bridge. I think it was shortly after this that she did a parachute jump too! Maybe someone's got a photo of that?