Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Oaker

Pages: [1] 2
1
Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Wednesday 26 August 20 13:17 BST (UK)  »
I read Victor, loved Alf Tupper, scruff Runner who always beat the posh bloke. Gorgeous Gus who came on a football field for 10 minutes and scored the winning goals. Hotspur, Eagle. Lion. I read everything I could get my hands on, We didn’t have a tele till I was 11, watched it at grandmas, I even read my sisters Bunty.
I feel sorry for kids nowadays, glued to their phones. I suppose it’s a form of reading.

2
Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Wednesday 26 August 20 09:17 BST (UK)  »
Favourite Saturday outing was to a shop we called the Comic Shop on the way to the chain ferry. It was run by two lovely ladies, I think called Dot and Maggie. You took 3 comics in and got two used comics back. I wish I’d kept all the early Spider-Man daredevil Thor Hulk etc comics I had in the sixties, they’re worth a fortune. I’d read all the James Bond books by the time I was 14.

3
Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Tuesday 25 August 20 19:50 BST (UK)  »
Sorry about the question, I looked up origin of I don’t give a monkeys, and it’s not appropriate for this forum.

4
Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Tuesday 25 August 20 19:38 BST (UK)  »
I knew of the Seghinis, just never heard of Eskimo pies. There was a little chap on a bike with an ice cream cart on the front , I think he was called Martino. Ordinary cornets were about 3d and sugar cornets a bit more. We called the red sauce Monkey juice for some ridiculous reason. Ice cream vans killed off a lot of that sort of trade.
Why was the area across from the power station called Monkeys Island. What is a monkeys as in, I don’t give a Monkeys.

5
Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Tuesday 25 August 20 14:36 BST (UK)  »
I never heard of seghinis Eskimo pies. My favourites in summer was frozen grapes and some custom made ice lollies with bits of fruit in them made by Mr Morgan at his paper shop on Plessey road. Also frozen jubilees could last for ages in your desk, but you had to keep lifting the desk lid up to suck them. Winkles in a newspaper cone could last for ages but you couldn’t pay me to eat one now. Gob stoppers are probably illegal now, some were massive and changed colour as they shrank. I wonder how many kids choked on them. Pomegranates were only available in autumn I think but I loved picking seeds out with a pin. Also monkey nuts.

6
Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Monday 24 August 20 17:57 BST (UK)  »
Onward Christian Soldiers, got us stamping our feet. Also stamped feet at Essoldo Saturday morning pictures when the cavalry arrived. It was 6d in and if your ticket number came up on the screen you had to stand on the stage and get awarded a free pass for the next Saturday. I saw a picture in one of Jim Harlands Blyth memories books of the Denver stagecoach, it cost 3d for a ride around the back lanes with a dozen other kids hanging out of the windows and roof, his horse was called Silver I think.

7
Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Sunday 23 August 20 16:54 BST (UK)  »
I remember music lessons, 11 year olds in the early days of the Beatles singing, Blaydon races, Bobby Shaftoe, The Minstrel Boy, De Camptown ladies sing dis song, Green grow the rushes oh, Oh Adam Bucham Oh. And hymns.
One day at Newlands they let us sing Sloop John B and we were so enthusiastic you could hear it all over the school.

8
Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Sunday 23 August 20 10:03 BST (UK)  »
They were all good teachers, in the year I was in 40 out of 42 kids in 4a got into grammar school. Mr Humble was headmaster, aptly named mr Blyth was the one armed caretaker.

9
Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Saturday 22 August 20 15:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I went to PLR in 57 then Crofton juniors. Mr Castiaux was our teacher in 4b, great french teacher. I don’t know about his wife. I remember Mr Leask lining up dozens of kids and caning them all for playing on the school field after it was newly seeded. Can you imagine that nowadays. I got the class prize in 4b presented by Eddie Milne, a Buffalo Bill book then I went to Newlands. I keep looking on these sites for info on the Harper family. I’ve just received Blyth Memories number6 which is brilliant. Jim Harlands books are really good

Pages: [1] 2