Category: Hebburn
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As a youngster growing up in Hebburn in the 1970s, there were lots of places to go to play and have adventures, some of which would probably have turned our parents’ hair white if they had known we were there. I have previously written about the covered reservoir on the corner of Mill Lane and…
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This post is as much a request for information as it is a recollection of one of my childhood playgrounds, now vanished. Back when I was around nine or ten years old, my friends and I would often play on the pile of rocks in the photograph above. It was located in a field behind…
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Sitting down to write this post, I am sharply reminded that as a British ex-pat living in the United States, I will forever have a foot in each country, so to speak, as far as my memories go. I remember when I moved here around a quarter-century ago being impressed by the convenience afforded to…
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Estimates as to the number of Elvis Presley impersonators active in the world vary wildly, from around ten thousand all the way up to half a million. On Tyneside during the 1980s and 1990s, we had a unique Elvis tribute act of our very own in the shape of Joe Allen, aka Jarrow Elvis. Joe…
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I learned to swim when I was about six years old. A friend of my mother’s from work, Sid Richardson, loved to teach swimming and had taught numerous local children to swim. So, on a Tuesday evening he would pick me and my mam up in their car and take us down to Hebburn Swimming…
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It’s funny to think sometimes just how easily pleased we were when we were young. A trip to Carr-Ellison Park in Hebburn was quite the treat when I was a young boy. Unfortunately, I don’t have any photographs of myself at the park, so any pictures that I include in this description of my memories…
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When I was a youngster in the 1970s, I remember people of my mother’s generation and older being very keen on a local band called the Dragoni Brothers. They played widely around the North East at the time, mostly at clubs and smaller venues, though they did perform at both Newcastle City Hall and the…
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If you were born after about 1982, St. Joseph’s Court will have always occupied the corner of Mill Lane and Victoria Road West in your memories. Here is a photograph of how that corner looks today: When I was growing up, the view was rather different, as that corner was the site of a covered…
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Last week I published my blog post with my memories of the School Street Flats in the early 1970s. I was quite astonished by the response I received in the Hebburn Facebook groups and on the Hebburn and our Neighbours web site. So many people came forward with information and their own, usually happy, reminiscences…
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When I was young, like many children of Hebburn’s Catholic families I attended St. Aloysius’ Infant School on Argyle Street. At the time, the school must not have had its own kitchen facilities, because I can remember the food for the school lunches being delivered in big metal containers out of a van. They didn’t…
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I originally wrote this in 2020 for Norman Dunn’s excellent Hebburn and Our Neighbours discussion board. It was subsequently posted on the Hebburn.org website which sadly no longer exists. This version has been updated with a couple of pieces of new information. Another little shopping area close to me when I was growing up was…
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I originally wrote this in 2020 for Norman Dunn’s excellent Hebburn and Our Neighbours discussion board. It was subsequently posted on the Hebburn.org website which sadly no longer exists. I have been thinking a lot about the shops that used to be on the corner of Hartleyburn Avenue and Victoria Road West when I was…