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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Northumberland => Topic started by: Phodgetts on Tuesday 06 July 10 11:40 BST (UK)
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Hi all, this building (now for sale) in Blyth is diagonally opposite the site of the old crossing box on Renwick Road. Does anyone here remember what the building was used for up until the closure of the railway station in August 1964? I have been told that at one point it was a Monumental Masons. Can anyone clarify that and what period of time that was?
In the railway picture the building can be seen, but the cattle dock obscures the lower half of the building.
Thanks in advance
Philip
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Philip,
Before named Renwick Road, this bit of the street/road was called Alexandra Crescent. Over the railway crossing it became Cowpen Road.
In my time ( 1950-60s) the Seqhinis had their little ice cream factory in the close vicinty. ( maybe behind that building ? ) Although memory is not my strength, I do remember a Monumental Masons been in the area.
There is a 1916 trade directory on line but no solution there. Blyth Library should have more current directory which might provide the answer.
Michael
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Hi Philip, I have been asking Ken Hedley if he has any idea about what this building was but he couldn't remember.
I will ask Gerry Evans and Bill Henderson when I see them at the Spartans quiz on Tuesday.
regards Malcolm
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Philip,
I was browsing some publications in Newcastle Library today.
On Monumental Masons ( or sometimes called Marble Masons).
In 1930s there were two in Blyth-- T & G Cocks of High St and W H Endean of Croft Road.
In 1956 Telephone Directory only Bart Endean is listed- 29 Croft Road ( Telepnone Blyth 478 lol
In 1958 There ditto for Bart and K Kell at 12 Second Avenue
1968 Directory ( Blair Publications) for Northumberland listed Endean and Kell at addresses as above.
Blyth Library should have more publications available fro Blyth than Newcastle Library holds !
Michael
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I'm with Michael Dixon on this one, as soon as I saw the photo Seghinis came to mind. As I remember it they were on the ground floor in the 60's as my younger brother used to go to judo classes on the first floor.
Will find out for definite tomorrow as my aunt (aged 84) is coming to stay and she live off Renwick Road so may know a bit more.
Barbara
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It's amazing how easy it is to forget. Seghini's were definitely around there but there was also a sweet factory, whose name I can't bring to mind right now, and that was my first thought when I looked at the picture.
Christine
PS I will eventually remember the name at the most inappropriate moment!!
ADDED - Was it Redheads Sweet Factory?
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Christine,
Perhaps !
Redheads had a sweet factory in my day mid C20th, up Station St, on Keelmans Terrace, a neighbour of the " Big Club". ( turn left anfd then on to Comrades Club)
Michael
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Thanks everybody for your time and efforts. Amazing how quickly the use of unassuming buildings gets forgotten. Here is a side view of the building on the right hand side of the crossing gates. I cannot make out what the advertisement board has on it, though the advert on the board on the left side of the road is for the Essoldo.
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I have spoken to my aunt and she says that Seghinis was behind the building in the photo and that there was never a monumental mason in that area and she and her husband were in the funeral business in Blyth for many years. The hire business had been there for many many years but she cannot think what if was before.
With regards to the other photo with the Essoldo poster, she said that my great uncle used to paste all the hoardings in Blyth (news to me).
Barbara
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Right Philip, I have as I said been asking Gerry Evans tonight if hr had any ideas about this building.
He informs me that he used to live next door to it and he says that its use was as follows:-
1 Redheads sweet factory
2 Civil Defence Offices
3 Cycling Club
4 A Vulcanising Shop
5 Peter Basset Car Seat Covers
6 Kenneth Kells Stonemasons and Sculpters ( served his time at Bart Endeans)
7 Blyth Tool Hire
In the Back Lane were
1 Seghinis ice cream factory
2 Rutters the Builders.
hope this answers your question.
regards Malcolm.
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Didn't he know what the advert was, on the building ? lol
Michael
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Ah, thanks for that Malcolm. ;D
I have a distant relative who lives in Blyth and the owner of the building has been tracked down! He has owned it since the 1960's. Hopefully more info will be forth coming in the next couple of days. I am hoping that a photo of the frontage as it was might even be languishing somewhere in his attic.
I will keep you posted.
Many thanks for taking the time and effort everyone to help me out with this one. I was also told just last night that the upstairs was used as a Judo club for a number of years which nicely confirms Barbara's comments.
Thanks again
Philip
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It's been a very busy building in it's time, hasn't it?
Three totally different suggestions as to it's use and all of them right - not often that happens!
Christine
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Redheads Sweet Factory is next to the (soon to be demolished) "Big Club" next to Morrisons. My fmily worked there in the past and a member of my living family currently resides n one of the apartments that it was converted into. (Or did red heads move to another building?)
As for Blyth Tool Hire, know that building well....for a 21yr old that is, grew up playing around it :D My dad know the bloke who owned it.
I always thought it was something to do with the railway or some off shoot of the railway business, because it's similar to the Bike shop (Two Wheel City) next to Morrisons, with doors at the top and pulleys.
I'm speculaing it could be a Warehouse. But i'm probably waaaaaay off lol
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(Or did red heads move to another building?)
I think it was Redheads factory before it moved down to Keelmans Terrace.
C
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Redheads was down in the Wright street area (can't remember the exact street but maybe Maddison Street) in the early sixties as my uncles back yard was opposite the loading bay and the smell was lovely. My favourite was the Black Bullets.
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Turn left off Regent Street ( earlier called Keelmans Row) into Station St, turn right into Keelmans Terrace... Redheads building on corner of Maddison st and Keelmans Terrace.
Club and the "Redhead" not on 1897 Ordnance Survey map of 1897- the railway line from "B" Pit (aka North Pit, then Bates) cut thru this area.
But club and building are on 1920 edition.
Using the Durham GIS mapping, the "building" is not there in 1899 but is in 1919-1929.
Michael
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The Red Heads factory on Maddison Street (also surrounded by Keelmans Ter, French Street and Summers Street (main building access) ) was built in 1913, it'scarved above a now blocked door on gable end of the building, the side that faces Herrons the Jewlers :)
It's amazing the silly things you remember, small dates insignifigant etc lol
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Kelly's Trade Directory of Durham & Northumberland, for 1921
has this "commercial" entry.
"Redhead, Thomas, Wholesale Confectioner, Morpeth Rd, Waterloo"
In 1929 edition.......
" Redhead & Co Ltd, Wholesale confectioners, Morpeth Rd, TN 192"
" Redhead, Leslie, confectioner - 8 Havelock St, Empire Bldngs, Carlton St,
11 Regent St "
In 1934 edition...
" Redhead & Co Ltd, wholesale confectioner, Mprpeth Rd, TN 192"
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I thought Morpeth Road was the name of the street on the " my" side of the railway gates,( I was a Cowpen lad) and it was Alexandra Crescent/Renwick Rd on you Blythees side of the gates ?
Michael
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Renwick Road up to the junction with Waterloo Road, then Alexandra Crescent as far as the railway line and Morpeth Road on 'your' side!
Christine
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Christine,
I totally agree- so where was Redhead establishment on Morpeth Road ?
Michael
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Pass ;D
I can't think of any other building which would be suitable - at least not in that area - maybe further along but I know in my youth (at much the same time as yours!) it was referred to as Redheads old place. Maybe a quirk of the owner preferring to be on Morpeth Road?
Christine
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Just a quick post-script, Michael. I was talking to someone today who reckons that this building existed before those street names which we were talking about existed.
Prior to the names the road was just known as The Morpeth Road so maybe it just kept it's old address ???
Christine
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Christine,
I don't know when that curving road on the south side of r/w crossinggot it's name(s), but Ordnance Survey maps (25" ) and Durham GIS maps show no buildings on the west side of the road, as late as 1899- after a time when the road/street had got a name.
Maps shows Harper St with only only one side ( south side) and what looks like gardens/allotments up to r/w line.
Michael
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I've been looking at the 1897 map - Renwick Road is mentioned but otherwise there is no name on any other part of that road.
I can see a building hard up against the railway tracks - north side of the gardens/allotments/whatever but it seems an odd shape so can't tell whether it's this one or not.
Can you see it?
C
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C,
I can see it. But I can't see it clearly even on enlargement- I think it is slightly in wrong place.
Switching maps ( from CommunitiesNorthumberland to Durham Gis) makes me think - don't laff- it is just thick outline of one of the "plots" !
gis.durham.gov.uk/website/interMAP/viewer Use post code ne242rq
1894-1899 edition , scale 1250 ( the 1919-1926 edition clearly shows the "building" )
M
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Hard to say whether it is the original building or not. This is a small extract from the 1897 map.
The field plots next to the building where then built on, and the very narrow section of the main building to left will have had to be demolished. This subject is certainly getting a lot of interest. Thank you all.
Philip
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Following on from all the entries, and everything connected. The original query relating to the building, I remember it being something to do with ice cream. Apart from Seghini's, there was also Rea's ice cream in the Blyth area. Redhead's sweet factory was at the top of Station Street. I used to stay with my grandmother at her home in Station Street. And at the bottom of that street, about opposite T G Allan shop, was another monumental mason's premises. I remember watching the goods/coal trains pass by from the upstairs bedroom window. I can also vaguely recall being taken out from the air raid shelter, during the war, and seeing the searchlights sweeping around the sky. However, the only fireworks I recall vividly, is when the Co-op bakery at Newsham 'went ahaad', and the whole of the co-op was virtually burned down.
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This was Redheads sweet factory. See attached photograph.
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Oakas47, More information please, re the photograph. Where and when was it taken ? Looks like there is a railway line in the foreground, so would that be in the Renwick Road area where the gates were ?
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The Kelly's Trade Directory for Northumberland for 1914 holds this entry...
"Redhead, Thomas, Confectioners ( wholesale) Morpeth Rd, Waterloo."
On the building's board it says Star Works. Perhaps this was close to the Star Foundry which was close to Morpeth Rd. Morpeth Rd got renamed as a piece of Cowpen Rd.
I remember another Redhead's building behind/beside the " Big Club"
( Station St/Keelmans Terrace) from the 1940s.
Michael
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Great photo - ties in nicely with being the side view of Philip's photograph.
Welcome to rootschat Oakas :D
Christine
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The white posts supporting the railway crossing safety gates help ( well me anyway ! ) get a fix on the site of this building.
Michael
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Kelly's Trade Directory, Northumberland 1929
BLYTH
Redhead and Co Ltd. who. confectioners. Morpeth Rd, T.N. Blyth 192.
Star Foundry, Morpeth Road
I tried the phone number , but no reply !
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Newcastle area Telephone Directory 1951 & 1957
Redhead and Co Ltd, confecs. Star Works, Maddison Street. TN 192
Source: Newcastle Central Library
Michael
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I think there's a few more digits in Blyth phone numbers these days Michael - you should have added 36 to the beginning ;D
Interesting photo though - it looks quite early looking at the length of the skirts. The gates are closed - waiting for a train to pass, and all the staff are outside in a line. Possibly someone important visiting the town and arriving by train?
Christine
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Chirstine,
But it was interesting to see their TN remained unchanged for at least 28 yrs.
Michael
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In the 60's, Readheads factory backed on to Wright Street where my uncle lived. The loading bay was right opposite their back gate.
The smell was wonderful.
Just arrived back from Blyth this afternoon after a couple of days visiting 'oldies'. Weather was lovely and we even managed a nice walk along the beach on Sunday afternoon when we got there.
Barbara :).
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Just to cradle and cherish some of those old memories here is a shot of the town taken from one of the gas storage tanks. Looking out along Simpson Street and Deleval Terrace and over the railway station.You can see Maynard's. Was that for sweets or something else. Never mind, I'll just let you soak in the atmosphere of the old place.
Now all I want to do is go for a ride on the little hand cranked roundabout in the market square and have an ice-cream. That was my treat if I was a 'good boy'! ;D
Philip
PS emmadog, is that large building over on the right the factory you mentioned backing on to Wright street?
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Hi Phillip,
Mmmmmmmmmmm Maynards wine gums. I spent many a half hour staring at all the sweets in Maynards window. (Can't remember ever buying any though.) They were probably too dear for us, we went to one of the corner shops near where we lived in Cowpen Quay.
I'm not sure about the building because it looks different from above but like Mike Dixon says earlier it was beside the Big Club.
Barbara
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I think the 3 storey building facing the camera, to the right halfway up, is the Big Club.
Michael
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The shop that now occupies the 'Maynard's' building (underneath the Maynard's sign) is the British Red Cross and the wonderful arched window building to the right is now Dolly Dimple's cafe and snack shop. So some goodies are still being sold from the site! ;D
Philip
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I think the 3 storey building facing the camera, to the right halfway up, is the Big Club.
Michael
That building on G Maps is named as G & L Club and is No. 23 Keelman's Terrace with a date stone of 1902. Is it one and the same? Is this also one of the buildings that will fall to make way for the new and enlarged supermarket? I've heard rumours but nothing for certain.
P
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P,
Cant see no 23 Keelmans Terrace listed on 1911 census. Perhaps because there would be no one living there ?
Kelly's Trade Directory of 1914 has
The Blyth & District Social Club and Workman's Institute Ltd in Keelman's Terrace, but no number.
Michael
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Hello,
I’ve found this quite by accident, I have some information that might be a help to you.
Blyth Tool Hire - prior to this it was a monumental sculptor on the ground floor and the first and second floors were occupied by a judo club - Jono Kata with a canvas floor and a kendo club - Bujutsu Kai with a polished wood floor this work was completed by the club members.
My dad was heavily involved in all these sports. He cannot be exact with a date but it was a judo club from 1963, quite an unusual sport for the time.
The sculptor was Kell, the brother of the business has just died very recently, I remember as a little lad looking at the head stones and so on, I would have been 7 or 8 at the time so around 1965. Kells were there before the judo club.
I used to walk past the front of the building which was an 'old fashioned' shop front with quite a low window with a display of headstones and vases. The woodwork was painted green
We entered the club by the back gate and then the back door, the lighting wasn’t fantastic, it was always very dusty. I remember running up the ‘open’ wood stairs with my friend to get away from the headstones!
Funny really once we were upstairs we quite forgot about the gravestones downstairs.
I hope this helps a little.
Malcolm
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I'm not sure about the building because it looks different from above but like Mike Dixon says earlier it was beside the Big Club.
Yeah, thats Keelman's House (Red Heads Factory), next to the 'Big Club' :lol:, i didn't realise til remembered Morrisons wasn't always there :lol:
When did Redheads close down? I seem to re-call a scent in the air when i first moved to Blyth in 94 and my Gran said it was the factory, was it still in operation then? :S
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Going back to page 1 (!sorry)!- Seghini's icecream shop was on Park Road when I was a child in the '40s. I don't know if the icecream was made there though.
To complete the circle - when my parents moved back to Blyth in 1988 they bought a house on Broadway, and their next door neighbours were Seghinis (sen.)
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Seghinis factory was definitely where the photo is taken. When I was a child in the 50's park road was the location of Martinos ice cream shop. We always used to stop there on our trek to the beach. (This has been confirmed by my aunt and uncle who currently live on park road.).
I also remember all the other shops on the way to the beach. There were quite a few and they always had buckets and spades etc. hung up outside.
Barbara.
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You're right Barbara - I remember Martino's now . So I wonder where Seghini's shop was?
We were so lucky to have that beautiful beach and sand-dunes to go to ,plus Seaton Sluice, but as you say quite a trek. We lived in a flat on Kingsway at that time, opposite the Spartans ground.
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Just had a sudden thought, was Seghinis shop on regent street near Harry Richies fruit shop. There was a cafe and shop on the corner opposite Cooknells the draper shop.
Barbara
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I think Seghini café was in Parsons Street, that tiny street that seems not to be named on maps, parallel to Havelock St.
Michael
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My Mam worked at Harry Richies when I was around 8/9 years old. I walked over on a Sat morning for a treat usually 'sweet cigarettes', candy sticks these days.
Seghini's shop/cafe was next door (to the south) and on the junction with Burt Street which has almost gone now.
I remember the door being on the corner junction of Regent Street/Burt Street.
The shop on the other side of Riches was a cobbler called Bullen's or Bullan's, it had it's own special smell.
Hope this helps.
Malcolm
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Hi,
I thought I was right with the location of Seghinis but age begins to take its' toll now and again. Yes, the cobblers was Bullens. Can't remember his name but his wife was Ivy and they were friends of my aunt.
Opposite these shops on the other side of Regents Street I can remember Cooknells (my aunt worked there), a fish and chip shop (cant remember name but can remember grub yum yum) then there was a bakery shop which could have been gilbertsons and a grocers???
barbara
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Malcolm and Barbara, what era are you discussing for Seghini's café ?
Today had a browse through telephone directories in Newcastle Library.
In early 1950s Seghini café was at 13 Waterloo Road with ice cream
factory at "back Alexandra Crescent"
By 1957 the café was listed as at 2 Parsons Street.
By 1959 the factory was listed as at " Off Renwick Rd" ( Alexandra Cres renamed)
And this continues to 1973 ( last directory held on open shelves)
Michael
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I lived in blyth until 1967 so before that.
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Hi , You've all brought back some lovely memories of my life in Blyth, where I still live,
I had forgotten how some of it used to be until now,
All the shops mentioned, I have been in, Seghinis cafe being the main place for refeshment as a kid, then as I grew older, after shopping.
However sad to say that Blyth is no longer the lovely little town that it used to be.
We have more charity shops than ever, Westgate House , ( previously Northumbria House and Blyth Cooperative,) is closing down in June, The shop that was once Hedley and Youngs is in a dreadful state inside, and has been up for sale. Good old Woolies long gone,
On a brighter note the beach area is looking very smart, now filled with housing, and once again a cafe opened up on the beach front, and is a huge success. the park is not too bad, but nothing compared to the lovely greens and flower displays of yesteryear. only recently there was talks of refurbishing the market place, again. as it is now just a huge empty square, even the market is diminishing!
Sorry if I have disallusioned anyone, but it has to be said that "fings ain't what they used to be,
Cheers, Dolly
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I might well meet you in Blyth some time Dolly :)
I'm a bit of a rolling stone but have always said that my roots are still in Blyth, where I spent my early years. It's the only place I think of as "home", however much it has changed, and I hope to return for my last years.,
The last time I was there was in 2002 for my Mum's funeral.
The developments on Regent St. are new to me, even though Mum and I used to go shopping in the Keelrow in the late '90s.
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TriciaK, I can well understand that the place one was born would always be "home", Once a Geordie, always a Geordie ! By the time you return , who knows the town maybe updated again by then.
Re- Regent street, that is as it was, but further extentions are being talked about. Being in recession as we are does nothing to help matters. It would be nice to think we might meet by the time this happens! Dolly.
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Michael,
Apologies for the delay, my mam worked at Harry Riches for some time, her best educated guess is that Riches was a fruit/veg shop from 1952/53 until around 1968, when Harry became ill and his catchment area became less due to demolition of nearby housing.
I used to go to the shop from around 6/7 years of age till 9/10 years. In terms of years this was 1965 until he closed in 1968.
When I first asked my mam she said there was a second shop on the main road into Blyth but couldn't recall where, looks like the 13 Waterloo Road telephone entry you found?
She also said that the Regent Street cafe was there long before Riches, pre World War 2, she remembers them having nothing to sell!
She also remembers the ice cream being made in a building in Gladstone Street, more or less opposite the Volkscentre (formerly the Beetle Centre), she couldn't remember when it moved from Gladstone Street.
Hope this is helpful.
Malcolm
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Hi everyone, I am up in lovely Northumberlad for a few days (powburn) but had a trip down to Blyth yesterday afternoon. I visited my uncle and aunt who live on park road and they verified that Martinos was the ice cream shop on ParkRoad and that Seghinis shop was on the corner of Regent Street and Burt Street. By the time we left we had talked about most of the shops from years gone by ( a lot of which I did not know.)
I now wish I had gone to Woodhorn on Wednesday as I may have bumped into Christine but my visit there will have to wait til next time I come up.
Barbara
Ps its been a lovely four days looking round. We even went to Whittingham churchyard and looked at gravestones of some ancestors.
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Oh emmadog, I'm so jealous. Enjoy your stay up there.
Which were your ancestors at Whittingham? Mine were Johnsons and you will have walked right by their grave as it is close to the edge of the path.
Other point for me here is the pre war cafe. Was it Marshall's Corner House Cafe?
I have an advert for it if you are interested in seeing it. Nothing special, but interesting nonetheless.
I posted some old Blyth adverts to the forum, but there didn't seem to be much interest.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,603501.0.html
P
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Re Phoddgetts, dont for one minute think that because no one remarked on the pics you sent of adverts that we dont appreciate them. I for one think they are bloomin luverly!!
I am amazed at where on earth you dig them up, where-ever that maybe, keep em coming!
and many thanks, Dolly
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Hi P, it's been a ovely few days up here onlu one wednesday that was horrible so we only ventured as far as Wooler.
We were on our way for a meal at Glanton when my cousin mentioned the gravestones so he went on to Whittingham. The had been after we were up there last year and found the stones. The had started at the back of the graveyard and found them right in front of the church door!!!
The gravestones were for the Pigdon family. I tried to take some photos but not sure what they are like.
Can't wait to come up again cos next time we are having a trip to archives.
Ihave got Johnsons in my tree but they originally came from Gateshead and settled in Blyth.
Barbara
PS dolly dimples posted while I was typing my reply above, I think the adverts are ace, really got me thinking again. By the way my aunt says that Woodcocks had not shut too!!!
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On the basis of your comments I'll upload some adverts then. I'd thought they'd generate some reminiscence and chat and that didn't happen......
P
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The Blyth adverts have been looked at 1079 times! That's quite a lot of interest I'd say!! :D
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Sorry emmadog. but Auntie is wrong , Woodcocks have closed down, and have been for some weeks now. I went for some new curtains one day, and there it was, all shuttered up. and still is. There was no notice or any signs of this happening. We will be a ghost town before long.!!
Glad to read of your nice break in Whittingham , and Glanton, Up there is one of our favourite places, Unspoilt as yet. Dolly .
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Sorryb Dolly Dimples my last comment was supposed to say that Woodcocks had shut down. Dont know where the extra not came from >:(
barbara
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Oh emmadog, I'm so jealous. Enjoy your stay up there.
Which were your ancestors at Whittingham? Mine were Johnsons and you will have walked right by their grave as it is close to the edge of the path.
Other point for me here is the pre war cafe. Was it Marshall's Corner House Cafe?
I have an advert for it if you are interested in seeing it. Nothing special, but interesting nonetheless.
I posted some old Blyth adverts to the forum, but there didn't seem to be much interest.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,603501.0.html
P
Hi. I missed the adverts you posted but I've just had a look. You brought back some great memories, my sister Orien worked at Redheads for a while, I think it was Fridays when she always brought home a big bag of bullets.
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Oh Billy you lucky thing getting all those black bullets. I used to love them and even when we moved away family always brought some for us. My aunt and uncle lived on Wright Street and their back door faced on to Redheads and the smell in their back yard was delicious.
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Back to the ice cream saga, on my way home today I called at another of my aunts in Bedlington and she knew The Martino family when she was young. The man who ran the business was Franco or to give him his full name frances septimus as he was the seventh son in the family. From one little comment you can glean lots of little snippets.
Barbara
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In amongst the collection of pictures I have of Blyth is this one of said ice-cream man circa 1960.
Here it is for you all to enjoy. Stop me and buy one!
P
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Oh Billy you lucky thing getting all those black bullets. I used to love them and even when we moved away family always brought some for us. My aunt and uncle lived on Wright Street and their back door faced on to Redheads and the smell in their back yard was delicious.
I had to smile when I read your post. The only time I get called Billy nowadays is when I visit Blyth, family, school friends and old neigbours.
I was lucky getting those bullets, only thing is I had to share them.lol.
Regards the icecream shop on Regent Street, Mam used to take us there sometimes on the way back home it probably was Burt street corner or there abouts. 1950's.
There was also an icecream place in Goshen Street. I remember going inside this big building. There was big icecream carts that were pulled by horses. Could it have been called Bell's? I'm not sure, it was a long time ago.
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Hi,
I thought I was right with the location of Seghinis but age begins to take its' toll now and again. Yes, the cobblers was Bullens. Can't remember his name but his wife was Ivy and they were friends of my aunt.
Opposite these shops on the other side of Regents Street I can remember Cooknells (my aunt worked there), a fish and chip shop (cant remember name but can remember grub yum yum) then there was a bakery shop which could have been gilbertsons and a grocers???
barbara
Barbara, your right about Gilbertson's shop, Alma Collins worked there for years. My Sister-in-law, Lillian, worked at Cooknells.
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Cowpen Quay Pics.
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Great Stuff lads, My husbands Grandma lived in Sproat Street, now long gone.
Dolly
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I believe the chip shop next to Cooknells was owned by the Martin family.
In the early 1900s Cooknells had their own factory behind the shop in Beaumont Street, making all the shirts, underware, babies clothes etc.
The two Bullen brothers who ran the cobblers were long time members of the Salvation Army and in their spare time taught music in their homes.
In the 1950's Seghini's had an ice cream palour in Bridge Street next door to what was until recently a travel agents, Kelly's baby wear shop before that. It had high stools or so they seemed to me at the time, and dark wood. Their eskimo pies, wafer biscuit cup filled with ice cream and a chocolate top, were lovely.
Cheers
G
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Yes the chippie was martins. they made their own meat cakes and I have never tasted anything like them since. there was another chip shop in cowpen quay but I'm afraid the mane of that one also evades me.
barbara
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Yes the chippie was martins. they made their own meat cakes and I have never tasted anything like them since. there was another chip shop in cowpen quay but I'm afraid the mane of that one also evades me.
barbara
it was Williams
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The only chippie I remember was on Plessey Road, just above the Spartan's ground.
That would be in the 1950s.
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Yes Croft Park it was Wilfie Williams. Couldn't remember but its all coming back. Isnt all this reminiscing good for people woth alzeimers, it seems to be good therapy for me!!!!
Barbara
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You're right Barbara :D You open the door a crack and it all comes flooding back!
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I'm with Michael Dixon on this one, as soon as I saw the photo Seghinis came to mind. As I remember it they were on the ground floor in the 60's as my younger brother used to go to judo classes on the first floor.
Will find out for definite tomorrow as my aunt (aged 84) is coming to stay and she live off Renwick Road so may know a bit more.
Barbara
Would your brother be on this photo Babara?
Sorry the quality is poor. I think it was taken by Les Cobb who was secretary of the judo club.