Blyth History.

[blythboy]

Here is a picture of it post-closure. I was 18 in 1970 and was warned even earlier to go nowhere near this place.

Also attached is the Gladstone, where you could just about drink in school uniform as long as you had long trousers on and a few bob in your pocket!

[TriciaK]

There's a list from PHodgetts on this link:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=538497.20
Certainly no shortage of pubs!

[TriciaK]

Interesting about the Pineapple, Michael, thanks.
Mr. Young was a very strict father , and ambitious for his 2 daughters who both trained to be doctors.
Another thing I remember about him, during WW2 he kept a shotgun in his garage, according to my friend it was to kill the whole family if the germans invaded.
I never forgot that 

[pityackafromblyth]

blythboy, Thanks for the photo of the Commercial, just as I remember it.  Looks like it was a Newcastle Brewery pub, due to the star hanging outside.
TriciaK, Thanks for the link to the pub list.  I had seen it before on Roots but could not find it lately.
And as regards The Gladstone, where was Burt Street where it was located ?

[emmadog]

Burt street was in cowpen quay I guess near gladstone street?

Barbara

[blythboy]

It was opposite Beaumont Street and Wright Street on the East Side of Regent Street. Or from the Railway Bridge going North:

King St.
Soulsby St.
York St.
Clive St.
Burt St.

[blythian]

Here is a picture of it post-closure. I was 18 in 1970 and was warned even earlier to go nowhere near this place.

Also attached is the Gladstone, where you could just about drink in school uniform as long as you had long trousers on and a few bob in your pocket!

Funnily enough my dad was just on about the Gladstone the other week, and he posted a blog about what he used to get upto here: http://upthedownescalator.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/crate-expectations/

[TriciaK]

I've just been reading elsewhere (a WW2 forum) that there was a plan in the early 40s to dump thousands of tons of coal into the mouth of the River Blyth, either to stop the germans invading, or to stop them getting the coal.
Has anyone heard/ read about this? I don't remember it, though I was very young at the time.

[Michael Dixon]

TriciaK,
 
 I have not heard of planz like zat ! 

 However here's some stats of Blyth coal leaving the harbour.

  Exported coal broke thru the million tons mark in 1888.
  1937= 6.6 million tons. 1938= 5.8, 1939= 5.8, 1940= 4.1
   1941= 3.9, 1942= 3.9, 1943= 3.5.

 In 1961 Blyth exported 6,889,317 tons. Blyth ( and Europe's)
  highest ever total. It went downhill thereafter through efforts
  of UK government policy decisions !

   Plans to block the harbour for whatever reasons would have
   had a major impact on the value of Blyth's commerce.

  Michael