wdmytrenko

On 08/11/2018 at 23:57, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

Photo of a group of lads - 1951 - in Dr Pit Welfare Park. The ride in the top left corner we called the 'Lollipop' or 'Witches Tit'.

Do you recognise any of this lot @HIGH PIT WILMA ?

#16 is peter dmytrenko, #17 is meself - walter dmytrenko. #18 is my old pal dennis smith.  we lived at hirst terrace & dennis was across the lane at gladstone terrace.  his family had a garden looking onto the park and at nightfall we would hear the ratatat tat of the parky dragging a stick across the fences as he walked the perimeter of the park.  a signal for us kids to be out of the park.  . . . best to all . . . w

i have an original of the photo. and as mentioned, #7 was “meself”  - walter dmytrenko.  we lived down Vulcan Way on hirst terrace 1950-1955, and i would wander thru the colliery lands or the otherway thru the fields to the blyth. billy elliot was me in a way . . . best wishes  . . . w 

bedlington village infants 1950 class 4. -  #2 is dennis smith, lived gladstone terrace beside hirst terrace; dad was jim, mom was Bella, sister was Sheila.  #7 is me. we left bedlington in 1955 for canada after dad had an accident in the pits.  
(friend dennis went into the mines at 14, lived last i heard in ashington.)