Blyth History.

[emmadog]

Surely he wouldn't mean Mathers as that would just be at the bottom of the street from Redheads.

[Michael Dixon]

 Scaramanga ( James Bond settled his hash) >> Cruddis (tobac wholesaler) >>> Cowpen Co-Op.

 This was my mother's main shop in 1950s.

 Street Trivia. When the two townships of Blyth and Cowpen merged in 1907, duplicated street names had to be
 straightened out. The Cowpen " Croft Steet" was renamed King St.

 Michael

[Phodgetts]

Yes Michael, and that Croft Street (later King Street) was the location of Blyth's very first railway station which opened on the 3 May 1847 when the extension from Percy Main to Blyth was completed.


P

[pityackafromblyth]

Thank you all for the information re the wholesale tobacconist, and you have hit the nail on the head.  I have seen my friend this morning, and when I mentioned the name Cruddis, he confirmed that was the name of the wholesaler. He states that apart from tobacco the firm also dealt in confectionery. He says Jimmy Hood was a very keen gardener, and also a drummer, who played in a small band/group which performed at pubs and clubs.

[blythboy]

Does anyone remember Nurse Emily Gerard/Gerrard? she was the District Nurse and cycled all over Blyth to do her duties in the 50s and 60s. Lovely lady and a friend of my Mum. Her father's history was also something special I recall.
Greeting from CH

[dolly dimples]

Emily Gerrard , of course, she will be be remembered by hundreds seeing that she delivered dozens of the the Blythonions!  As you say a well respected lady of her time.   
                       Merry Christmas, Dolly

[pityackafromblyth]

Well another year gone by, and I have spent another New Year away from 'home'. I gather that New Year celebrations, first footing, etc., have gone by the way nowadays.  So I am not missing much ?  Where I live there was a caravan club meet, and some of them appeared in the local pub, and they were from the North East, so they livened up New Year's Day dinner time for us ex-pats.
But by the by, the reason I have come here tonight is ,... local Geordie words, NE words, etc. One word we used at Blyth was " sproach".  eg. - 'let wi hev a gud sproach in this cupboard.'; or from an elder, ' what are yi sproaching aboot in the cupboards and drawers?'
I have looked in old dictionaries, etc., but just cannot find the word, "sproach."(or however spelled.)So does anyone from Blyth it being used within their family, years back ?

[emmadog]

Hi pityakka,

When I was small my mother always used to say we were "spoaching" without the r. Strangely, I just used the word before christmas when I reckoned my daughter had been spoaching in my wardrobes (for pressies) (She was out of luck though)

Barbara

[emmadog]

I have just looked on Internet for spoaching and it gave the exact meaning of "Timmy was spoaching for his Christmas presents"

Barbara