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0001 - Wartime Memories
0002 - Laying Out
0003 - Memories of West Farm
0004 - The Air Raid Shelter . **
0005 - A Musical Family
0006 - Up and Down The High Street
0007 - Song of the Tyne
0008 - Swan Hunters Shipyard (1956 - 1963) . **
0009 - Howdon to Jarrow for nowt!
0010 - The V.I.P. Journey
0011 - Wallsend Wartime Memories
0012 - School Days
0013 - Cullercoats . **
0014 - Open Air School
0015 - Early Memories
0016 - School Days
0017 - Home Cooking
0018 - Shopping and Running the Home
0019 - Games we used to Play
0020 - A Grand Day Out
0021 - Chapel Activities
0022 - Illness and Remedies
0023 - My Very First Job
0024 - Memories of School
0025 - Fresh Air and Nature as the Century Closes
0026 - A Bad Winter
0027 - Childhood Memories
0028 - All Good Grub
0029 - Christmas and Easter
0030 - Life and Death
0031 - My First Jobs
0032 - War Time in Wallsend
0033 - Linskill Girls School
0034 - Marriage and Motherhood
0035 - Belle's Story - Having a Baby
0036 - Ria's Story of the Second World War
0037 - Illness and Remedies
0038 - Health
0039 - Night School
0040 - Hospital
0041 - Neighbourly Nostalgia
0042 - Childhood Games
0043 - Swimming
0044 - Cinemas
0045 - School Days
0046 - At Home in Winter, in the 1950s
0047 - As We Were
0048 - Shiremoor County Modern School 1948 - 1952
0049 - Shopping
0050 - St John's Ambulance Brigade in the Mid 1930s
0051 - The Squirrel Mentality
0052 - Civil Defence Ambulance Service
0053 - Air Raid Shelters
0054 - Winter 1947
0055 - Driving Test 1937
0056 - Childhood Memories
0057 - Air Raid Shelters
0058 - Beauty in the 1940s and early 1950s
0059 - Memories of an Air Raid Protection Warden
0060 - The Fish and Chip Shop
0061 - Dentists!
0062 - Newsteads Farm
0063 - The Ladies at Carlton Court Remember
0064 - I Delivered So Many Babies
0065 - Memories of Life
0066 - Memories of Life
0067 - My Memories
0068 - My Memories
0069 - Registrar's Office at Swan Hunters
0070 - My Family
0071 - Nursing
0072 - Deliveries
0073 - Wallsend
0074 - When the Boat comes in
0075 - L.S.D
0076 - Shop Assistant
0077 - My time at Tynemouth Cricket Club
0078 - Sunday School
0079 - Home Life - Health - in the 1920s and 30s
0080 - Working in Service
0081 - Errands and Odd Jobs in the 1920s
0082 - Fishing 1920s
0083 - Games in the Street 1920s
0084 - On Being a Grandma
0085 - School Days
0086 - Fairgrounds
0087 - Keeping Cool
0088 - Pocket Money
0089 - Looking Back by a 90 Year Old
0090 - A Sweetshop of Long Ago
0091 - Different Routes
0092 - A Day off School
0093 - The Launch of the Dominium Monarch - 27/7/38
0094 - Wash Day with the Poss Tub
0095 - Childhood Memories
0096 - Poss Tubs and Mangles
0097 - Fishing at Tynemouth Haven
0098 - Wash Days and the Large Family . **
0099 - Birthday Parties
0100 - VE Celebrations
0101 - War Declared - Sunday 3rd September 1939
0102 - Childhood in West Percy Road
0103 - North Shields Fish Quay
0104 - Schools in the 1960s and 70s . **
0105 - Murton Council School (1934-1941) . **
0106 - Childhood Books
0107 - Whitley Bay . **
0108 - A Question of Rats
0109 - Jane Lackenby (circa 1880-1970) . **
0110 - Scottish visitors to Whitley Bay
0111 - The Screwless Coffin
0112 - The Fountain Head . **
0113 - Building a new life
0114 - About A (Bevin) Boy
0115 - Sleeping Arrangements . **
0116 - Wartime
0117 - Australia to North Shields
0118 - Working with horses
0119 - Village Traditions (around 1938)
0120 - Ella Gordon (1909-1999)
0121 - Gas Mantles
0122 - Christmas Past
0123 - Geo Angus and Co.Ltd
0124 - North Shields 81 years ago
0125 - Painting for beginners
0126 - An experience of Decorating
0127 - Reminiscences of a young boy living on the fringes of Tyneside in the late 1930s.
0128 - Miss Edwina Chatt: Teacher at Murton School
0129 - Saturday - Best Day of The Week
0130 - The School Dentist
0131 - Memories of Christmas in the 1940s
0132 - Childhood in East Howdon
0133 - The Dreaded Nit Nurse
0134 - Christmas in the 1930s
0135 - East Howdon Social Club in the 1950s
0136 - First Day as a Junior Shop Assistant
0137 - How it Was in 1914
0138 - The Girls Hostel
0139 - Wartime Life in North Shields
0140 - Active Service
0141 - Thompson Red Stamp Stores . **
0142 - Working at the Rex
0143 - My Time in Khartoum
0144 - Memories of Gladstone Adams
0145 - Memories of Low Row and Percy Main
0146 - Walks in North Shields - No 1
0147 - Green Peas and Barley . **
0148 - Old North Shields
0149 - Forest Hall 1952
0150 - Teaching at Murton School
0151 - The Picture House, Forest Hall
0152 - The Great Slum Clearance Scheme
0153 - The Penny Scrush
0154 - The Flower Show . **
0155 - Memories of Trinity Street, North Shields
0156 - Walks in North Shields - No 2
0157 - The Ritz Cinema, Forest Hall
0158 - Oh Happy Days
0159 - Land Army Days
0160 - A Tailor's Apprentice
0161 - East End Sunbeams
0162 - School Life
0163 - Mauretania Maiden Voyage 1906
0164 - My Father, Henry Baker (1849 - 1930)
0165 - Music in North Shields
0166 - Putting on a Show
0167 - East End Carnival
0168 - My Mother, the Mat Maker
0169 - Turnbull's of North Shields
0170 - Forest Hall in the 60s and 70s
0171 - Benton and Forest Hall Railway Stations
0172 - Children Playing
0173 - The Embassy Ballroom, Forest Hall
0174 - Forest Hall, 1960s and 1970s
0175 - Forest Hall, Social Functions
0176 - Shopping in Forest Hall
0177 - Margaret the Fish Lady
0178 - Shops in the Old Part of Benton
0179 - What a Dilemma
0180 - John Falconar Slater
0181 - Cullercoats Folk
0182 - Youth Hostelling . **
0183 - Youth Hostelling by Bike . **
0184 - Going to the Pictures in Cullercoats
0185 - St Matthew
0186 - Putting on the Style
0187 - M V Stonepool . **
0188 - Light Industry on the Tyne in the 1960s
0189 - Some Thoughts on Father's Day
0190 - My Nana
0191 - Carnivals in North Shields
0192 - No Credit Control
0193 - Cinema in North Shields
0194 - Games and Stories
0195 - Life in Cullercoats
0196 - Childhood in North Shields
0197 - Health in the 1920s
0198 - Washing and Ironing
0199 - The Abbatoir, North Shields
0200 - Life in 1920s North Shields
0201 - Moving House
0202 - Father in Work
0203 - St Cuthbert . **
0204 - Linskill School Football Team 1963/4 . **
0205 - Memories of Longbenton
0206 - Moving to Longbenton
0207 - Longbenton in 1930s and 1950s
0208 - The Rocket Pub, Longbenton
0209 - Street Scene
0210 - Our House in West Allotment . **
0211 - Living in Longbenton in the 1950s
0212 - Keeping Shop in West Allotment . **
0213 - West Allotment - Life in a Mining Village
0214 - Washing Day
0215 - Things To Do In West Allotment
0216 - Memories of the Sampson Family . **
0217 - All About Tea Cans and Spotted Bait Hankies
0218 - Seeing Airship R101 October 1930
0219 - Living Through The Slump
0220 - Growing Up in Monkseaton
0221 - A New Arrival
0222 - A Winter Trip to Tynemouth Boating Lake
0223 - The Bombing of Preston Hospital
0224 - People in Monkseaton
0225 - Wartime Weather
0226 - Preparing for War
0227 - Local Transport and Wrecks
0228 - Fog, Fishing and Wrecks
0229 - Round and About in Monkseaton
0230 - Home Front: Monkseaton in World War Two
0231 - Outbreak of World War Two
0232 - The Alcoholic Collie
0233 - Tyne Tugs 1956
0234 - The Deed Hoose . **
0235 - Childhood in Howdon and Wilington Quay
0236 - Dripping Bread Sandwiches 1955
0237 - Coal Colliiers (Flat Irons)
0238 - The Ice Factory, North Shields
0239 - River Tyne Foyboats
0240 - Super Tankers (1970s)
0241 - Tyne Tugs
0242 - For Distinguished Conduct in the Field . **
0243 - Coast Trains
0244 - Baster Fights
0245 - The Van Lad
0246 - Saturday Afternoons in Newcastle
0247 - Flower Power
0248 - Travelling to School 1960s Flower Power
0249 - The View From My Garden
0250 - Fish For A Queen
0251 - Percy Main Engine Sheds (1957)
0252 - Another Kind of War - Through a Child's Eyes
0253 - Big Country - Small World
0254 - Memories of Gordon Square, Wallsend
0255 - Bliddy Mackerel
0256 - An Act of Chivalry . **
0257 - The Smell of Tar
0258 - Memories of Castlepark
0259 - Growing Up in Castlepark
0260 - Eccleshaw Shops
0261 - Call of the East - Working Life 1950 - 2000
0262 - Scarlet Fever in Annitsford
0263 - Hospital Experiences
0264 - Illnesses and Treatments
0265 - Tonsils Out At Home
0266 - Treatment of Diabetes - 1947
0267 - Christmas Memories 1928/9
0268 - Tynemouth Village Townswomen
0269 - Waggon Ways
0270 - The Pictures on my Mind
0271 - Christmas and New Year in the 1920s
0272 - The Driving Test 1974/5
0273 - The Childhood and Adolescent Years of Les Birkett
0274 - Snow Shovelling 1957
0275 - Albert Edward Docks 1950s
0276 - Boogie Making
0277 - Dog End Hunting
0278 - Sunday School and Early Church in Longbenton
0279 - Development of Longbenton
0280 - Longbenton Shops 1950s and 1960s
0281 - Longbenton Methodist Church Foundation Stone Laying 1955 . **
0282 - Longbenton Methodist Youth Centre
0283 - Longbenton Carnival
0284 - Balliol Community Food Shop
0285 - The Fifteen Storey Flats
0286 - Getting the Washing Done
0287 - Living in a Building Site
0288 - Childhood Memories of Forest Hall
0289 - Memories of Forest Hall
0290 - Memories of Forest Hall
0291 - My Memories of "D" Day
0292 - The Sinking of SS Pinna, 1942
0293 - Percy Main Coal Trains 1957
0294 - North Sea Storms
0295 - Dogger Bank 1965
0296 - Musings of a Wooden Dolly
0297 - Coal Fires 1956
0298 - The Cabbage Patch on the Fish Quay
0299 - Minnie Beck
0300 - Tynemouth Plaza
0301 - Murton Elementary School 1948 . **
0302 - North Shields Co-op 1920s
0303 - Games and Entertainment in Forest Hall (1980s)
0304 - Forest Hall Remembered (1930s)
0305 - Memories of Forest Hall 1930 - 1950
0306 - Outcome of an Informal Chat
0307 - M/V Leda 1957
0308 - Old Remedies
0309 - Doctors of North Shields
0310 - Miss Laverick, Western Board School (1955)
0311 - Appleby Street (1956)
0312 - Clive Street Shops (1956)
0313 - Train Journeys
0314 - Chocolate and Senna
0315 - Empire Day
0316 - Evacuation
0317 - Forest Hall in the 1960s
0318 - Home Remedies and Cures
0319 - The Saga of the Dredger 'Beaver Mackenzie' 1975
0320 - Washing Day
0321 - Introducing the River Tyne
0322 - A Christmas Surprise
0323 - The Wall - Spring Gardens
0324 - Easter Memories
0325 - Children's War Effort 1940
0326 - Old Remedies
0327 - Growing Up in Howdon 1960s
0328 - Christmas Memories Early 1960s
0329 - Christmas Memories Early 1960s
0330 - Fred's Steam Train
0331 - Christmas and My Great Aunt May
0332 - The River Tyne Police
0333 - Hoyin' Skeulls
0334 - Childhood Sounds About the House
0335 - Down One Side and Up the Other
0336 - Cooking on a Flat Iron
0337 - Dedication of St Columba, Wideopen, 1983
0338 - Some North Shields Pubs
0339 - The Nana (Gannies of 1955)
0340 - The Co-op Horses 1955
0341 - Cotton Dresses and Arctic Weather . **
0342 - Birthdays
0343 - Boat Trips
0344 - Sweet Shops
0345 - Rudi the Demon Barber
0346 - FIRE BOAT
0347 - Marching on Good Friday
0348 - Hot Cross Buns
0349 - Good Friday Planting Potatoes
0350 - Easter Monday at the Fair
0351 - Fish on Good Friday
0352 - Jarpin Your Eggs
0353 - Chocolate Eggs?
0354 - A Big Day Out
0355 - An Old Easter Rhyme
0356 - Tug o
0357 - Paste Eggs and rationing
0358 - Making paste eggs
0359 - Easter Weekend
0360 - Watching the ships go by . **
0361 - Swan Hunter and its Cranes . **
0362 - The Jungle, North Shields Quayside - 1968
0363 - Shorts Scrapyard North Shields - 1957
0364 - Dentists
0365 - HOT CROSS BUNS
0366 - Smiths Docks Co Ltd (1957) . **
0367 - The Outside Netty (1957)
0368 - The Ship Inn, Monkseaton, 1970s
0369 - Peg Racing 1957
0370 - My Life in the Regular Army
0371 - Jane Alice and Willie - A Love for a Lifetime . **
0372 - Car Spotting on the Broadway
0373 - Growing up in Cullercoats
0374 - My First Memories
0375 - My First Memories
0376 - Family Life
0377 - Family and Home
0378 - School
0379 - School
0380 - School
0381 - Home Cures
0382 - Girl Guides
0383 - Girl’s Brigade
0384 - Mischief
0385 - Out of school
0386 - Family Transport 1935
0387 - Carnivals
0388 - Fashion
0389 - Fever Hospital
0390 - Going To Church
0391 - Reading
0392 - Reading
0393 - Whitley Bay in 1930s
0394 - On the Beach
0395 - Holidays
0396 - Pancakes in a Pig Sty
0397 - Holidays in Manchester and Tyneside
0398 - A ride in a ‘Dicky seat’
0399 - First jobs after school
0400 - After School
0401 - After School
0402 - First Footing 1964
0403 - Matchbox Collecting 1958
0404 - Tynemouth Lake 1961
0405 - Sprat Fighting 1957
0406 - Bath Time 1960
0407 - The Tab Wagon 1956
0408 - Putting the Old Tank to Bed . **
0409 - The Camel . **
0410 - A very sad day - A great step forward . **
0411 - Our Posh Dinner 1956
0412 - The Lord's Day
0413 - The Egg Wagon 1958
0414 - Tynemouth Borough Police Remembered . **
0415 - Lloyds Sewer Pipe 1962
0416 - Tin Telephones 1957
0417 - Sunday School in Percy Main
0418 - Percy Main Council school
0419 - Percy Main boys and girls club
0420 - Childhood in Willington Quay & East Howdon . **
0421 - Memories of My Childhood – Playing & Entertainment
0422 - Home Life in Willington Quay & East Howdon
0423 - What is this badge? . **
0424 - Burradon Memories Part 1: 19 Office Row . **
0425 - Burradon Memories Part 2: Hardship . **
0426 - Burradon Memories Part 3: The Lights . **
0427 - Burradon Memories Part 4: Village Memories and characters . **
0428 - Burradon Memories Part 5: Church Affairs . **
0429 - Burradon Memories Part 6: Georgie - A Flight of Fancy? . **
0430 - Burradon Memories Part 7: The Picture Palace . **
0431 - The Rafts 1960
0432 - The Box 1958
0433 - Spuds 1957
0434 - From Western Board 1956 to Linskill 1964 . **
0435 - Stilts 1958
0436 - The Umbrella 1959
0437 - Barrel Walking 1958
0438 - The Flix 1960
0439 - Christmas at 14 Backworth Street, Percy Main
0440 - Christmas Cooking
0441 - Cooking on Boxing Day
0442 - Fenwick's Window – 1960s
0443 - Christmas on National Service - Egypt 1954
0444 - A Christmas Party at the Masonic Lodge North Shields
0445 - School Christmas Party 1930s
0446 - National Service Memories
0447 - More About Life in National Service
0448 - National Service in Egypt
0449 - National Service in the Far East
0450 - Early Memories of National Service
0451 - National Service in Germany
0452 - Being a Chef in the Royal Navy
0453 - Old Newspapers 1958
0454 - Tide Marks 1958
0455 - Fish Chasing 1960
0456 - The Gasman
0457 - My Early Life in Percy Main
0458 - Johnson's Dairy, Percy Main
0459 - Cookson's Pond
0460 - Going to the Pictures
0463 - How many uses was the penny daily paper put to?
0464 - The Outbreak of War
0465 - Blackberrying
0466 - Collecting Coke
0467 - Making Hooky/Clippy Mats
0468 - Sing-songs in Our House
0469 - Hoy Oot!!
0470 - Marching on Good Friday
0471 - Winter Pastimes
0472 - Carol Singing
0473 - The Pantomime at the Wesleyan Church Hall, Percy Main
0474 - Hill's Fish and Chip Shop, Percy Main
0475 - Days at Tynemouth Beach and Saltwell Park
0476 - Christening Bags 1958
0477 - Weddings 1958
0478 - Smiths Docks Clock, North Shields 1958
0479 - Smiths Docks Apprentices 1958
0480 - Broken Biscuits 1960
0481 - Mrs Burns 1957
0482 - “Onward Christian Soldier”
0483 - Easter 1958
0484 - Victor the Stick Man (1958)
0485 - Johnny Pie Hill (1960)
0486 - Meter Man (1957)
0487 - Selling Papers (1962)
0488 - Catty Nelly (1958)
0489 - Funerals (1957)
0490 - Nit Nurse (1957)
0491 - The Chippy
0492 - Sweet Shops
0493 - An account of two incidents occurring early in World War II
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