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Tonyp

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  1. Hi Malcolm?? Did you have a brother called Kieth he went to westridge school & was the first influx that was to become bedlington high school terrible decisions creation that rubbish nothing wrong with westridge plr & guide post secondaries
  2. Hope it’s helpful you can go back every 10 years of the census but I believe you can only look at the records that are 100 years old & later but I’m not 100% sure
  3. You can get the census records online from 100 years ago think it ancestry but you have to pay monthly subscription fee sometimes 1st month is free
  4. Lefties always borrow money
  5. Thing is if symptoms went to London now he wouldn’t find any ellagant woman there now just daily mirror readers with khan at the helm lots of good reading in that paper lol 😂
  6. As Winston Churchill said you’ll never find a rich socialist as they always borrowing money
  7. Meant towns
  8. Totally agree Vic labour belongs to London has done for years the tories run the the rich leafy town nobody cares about the rest of the country
  9. Labour supporters & other left wing activists pleased im living inHumgary
  10. I think stustep appreciated it
  11. Just saying
  12. Hi Alan don’t think anyone has gone off track what’s wrong with giving a new member information to there question we are just trying to help about the area where he’s new house is I would be interested never mind
  13. I used to have morning paper round for hollymount in the mid seventies I remember the shop having coffee vending machines in there so it might have been a supplier to factories etc I might be wrong as it was a long time ago
  14. Miners picnic 1957
  15. I put a photo on the website it was taken in the late fifties on picnic day my brother grandmother & the Herons who lived in Hollymount it was actually taken outside the the that HPW mention the photo is still there
  16. Dunno Alan but I know an Asian guy had it in the 70’s we would finish school go to the shop & was able to buy 1tab for 3p we would smoke on the back of the Raisbeck bus imagine doing that now 😂 the tab was players No6 happy days
  17. I think it might have something to do with the steelworks because before Millbank place Knox road it would have been direct access to the woods & iron works hence the word mill bank but that’s just an outrageous guess
  18. Your right as my grandma & grandpa moved in there from brand new at Millbank from Hirst terrace unfortunately he was killed at the Dr Pit in April 1949 so spent very little time there shame really
  19. There used to be trees in every garden in Millbank place some had shared trees don’t know why the council cut them down they were all mature & different species
  20. Yeah Alan married a girl up that way west Lea area Barbara Potts I believe
  21. My brother gave her the photo
  22. My brother gave your mum a photo of mick your uncle I was good mates with Peter he came to my house when I lived in London I new all your family to be honest
  23. Hi Katherine the topic is under Millbank Place on the forum I take it your mother is Cathy
  24. Actually Haig Road was named named after General Haig who served in the 1st w/w the poppy appeal bears he’s name & Admiral Beatty was in charge of the fleet in the Battle of Jutland also 1st W/W General Haig is buried at Melrose Abbey.on the Scottish Borders. Milbank place was built in 1950s my mum & Dad was of the first tenants I was doing a topic on Millbank place but never got round to finishing it yet but Millbank terrace & crescent was built much earlier
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