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Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Tuesday 04 September 12 20:44 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: peteloud on Tuesday 04 September 12 20:32 BST (UK)
Quote from: pityackafromblyth on Monday 03 September 12 19:31 BST (UK)
. . . .  As regards top end of Plessey Road, I recall - Buglass's general shop, and then Watson's Newpaper shop a couple of doors away.

In the 1950's I always knew that general shop as Chamberlain's. Just beyond was, as you say, Watson's Newspaper shop. 

When the Greeners took over the newspaper business I used do a morning paper round from there.  Monday to Friday, I would deliver just over 100 newspapers up Newcastle Road, then along Laverock Hall Road and end at Etal Road at the council house into which we moved in 1957, from Middle Street, (The street of Dr Baird & bottom Dodd's shop & Ella Simmons). 

For that paper round I was paid £1 a week. I thought that very good. A couple of years later when I got into underage drinking, a pint of IPA at the Newsham Hotel cost 1s 3d, across the road at the Vic a pint was only 1/1d. that was the price of 16 pints of IPA. That would be over £40 in today's money.
The confusion over names probably comes from the fact that the Chamberlain's youngest daughter, Nancy, married Godfrey Buglass. The Chamberlains originally lived at 77 New Row in the miners houses. In 1935 the family moved to the general store at 777 Plessey Road, but Nancy and Godfrey, who were now married, took over 77 New Row when the rest of the family moved out. There they had 2 sons, Geoffrey and Norman Buglass

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Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Monday 03 September 12 14:13 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: pityackafromblyth on Monday 02 January 12 12:43 GMT (UK)
New Delaval.
I have seen an ordnance survey map from the 1930s which shows rows of miners' cottages to the west of Delaval Gardens.  They would have been for employees at New Delaval pit. As a youngster in the early 1950s there was the colliery timber yard in the same location where the cottages once stood. The timber yard was encircled by the single track railway and NCB coal wagons were also stood there at times.
What I want to know is when were the cottages built, and when were they demolished ?  If I recall the contents of the map correctly, there were 4 methodist churches within that area of New Delaval, besides the schools, which leads onto another query - there were no public houses in New Delaval, they were all on the east side of the LNER railway line at Newsham, ie the Black Diamond, the Willow Tree, etc.  Who were the owners of the New Delaval Colliery, and also the land upon which the miners' cottages were built ? If there was a strong Methodist following in that area, would that be the reason for the absence of pubs ?
I believe there was also a pub to the west of the New Delaval Colliery called The Three Horseshoes. The last row of miners houses on the west side was called Sinkers Row. To the west of that was Robson's Farm and then The Three Horseshoes. The landlady's name was Mrs Cowan and she had a son called John. My relatives, the Chamberlains, lived in the miners houses at 77 New Row until 1935 when they opened a general store at 777 Plessey Road and the corner of Cosser Street. The mine was closed in 1955 so I'm guessing that is roughly when the houses were demolished, though there is a photograph of the derelict pit head still standing in 1969.

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