Jim Bell Posted June 27, 2021 Author Share Posted June 27, 2021 Benton Road shops. Newcastle. RayMK and Blake's Den 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 2 hours ago, Jim Bell said: Chillingham Road, Newcastle, Heaton. When I worked for ScS, in the early 90's any 3 piece suites that we collected from a customer when delivering their new one. We would take to the secondhand shops in Chillingham Road, £20-£30 a suite sometimes 2-3 times a day,5 days a week. Newcastle and the coast up to Whitley Bay was our run. Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 On 27/06/2021 at 17:25, Jim Bell said: Benton Road shops. Newcastle. Walkerville Garage [Skoda dealers] *showroom was behind photographer... First in row, after petrol station. *gone Bought/Collected both 130LSE & Rapid cooup there.... Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted July 10, 2021 Author Share Posted July 10, 2021 Hylton Road, Sunderland. 2002. Dyslexic Viking, DVee8 and Shirley Knott 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted July 10, 2021 Author Share Posted July 10, 2021 Pallion Road Garage, Sunderland. Dyslexic Viking, LightBulbFun, Shirley Knott and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted July 10, 2021 Author Share Posted July 10, 2021 Seaburn, Sunderland. tooSavvy, Shirley Knott and DVee8 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 45 minutes ago, Jim Bell said: Seaburn, Sunderland. Don't know which looks more down at heel...... Car or frontage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 Ocean Road, South Shields JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 Cronch JeeExEll and Blake's Den 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake's Den Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Jim Bell said: Cronch I hope that the Prefect driver had good insurance! I wonder if it was ice related? It looks snowy . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabooka Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 10:34 PM, Jim Bell said: Neville Street, Newcastle. Just catching up after being AWOL for a couple of months and had to comment on this. The Dog and Parrot was a very popular haunt of mine back in the 90s when it was renamed Tut n Shive (part of a chain owned by Whitbread. Remember them?), and I also worked there for about 7-8 years or so. Part time to fit around my other work, bloody loved it. Renamed back to the Dog again now of course, has been for quite a few years, but it's lost all of it's charm from the 90s as have many a boozer. Jim Bell and chaseracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Has/had the D&P a 'micro brewery' and you can see it through glass panes in the floor, into cellar? Dabooka 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 2 hours ago, tooSavvy said: Has/had the D&P a 'micro brewery' and you can see it through glass panes in the floor, into cellar? Dunno about the underfoot visibility aspect, but... http://beermad.web-brewer.co.uk/brewery/306 Dabooka and tooSavvy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabooka Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 4 hours ago, tooSavvy said: Has/had the D&P a 'micro brewery' and you can see it through glass panes in the floor, into cellar? Not any more. You're correct about the (heavily scratched) glass panel in the floor near the door to the ladies which allowed a view down into the cellar where the setup was. However that got royally fucked in the 80s when a relief manager whacked the heaters on without any water in the jackets. Burnt out the elements and basically killed off the gimmick as it was. The tanks needed to be cut up to be removed and that was the end of that. It did mean the cellar was lovely to work in, three rooms and great setup for the stillage too. Best setup I've seen in an 'old' pub. Just read the link above which is nicely detailed. I thought it stopped in the 80s, not 1990, but my memory back then is somewhat addled. Partly due to the copious amounts of lager and Castle Eden I consumed in that very boozer. Jim Bell, chaseracer and tooSavvy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 I have similarly hazy memories of the Toon 1985-88, when I was allegedly studying*. tooSavvy and Dabooka 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 I used to stagger round the corner, from the Hofbrau Haus, and get the bus to Winlaton from the bus station *now Centre For Life Blake's Den and Dabooka 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabooka Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 On 7/22/2021 at 6:52 PM, tooSavvy said: I uaed to stagger round the corner, from the Hofbrau Haus, and get the bus to Winlaton from the bus station *now Centre For Life That bus station, Malborough Crescent, was also the home for various coach outfits too, including the infamous Barton Bus. As a kid I'd be chucked on that on my visits back to the midlands to see family and friends in Nuneaton with nowt more than a few Commando comic books (remember those?) and a couple of cheese butties. It took about seven and a half hours and even now I see places like Worksop and Worsop and it brings memories back of that coach journey. When building the Centre for Life they also discovered a load of human remains there too which needed forensic archaeologists to remove and relocate them, allegedly it was a dumping ground from a cholera outbreak. One chap in particular used to come to the Dog frequently for the months and months it took to do, it really pushed the development back. Lovely chap and always very interesting, even to a 20 something barman. I was also responsible for the coloured lights in the mesh stairway at either end getting rearranged; I got a lift back from Sunderland one day with one of the architects on the project and I commented the sequence meant a few of them merged and looked odd (yellow and red and the green and blue). The next day she said she agreed and had arranged to get them switched to be better contrasts to each other. 😆 /waffle tooSavvy, Jim Bell and chaseracer 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake's Den Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Lobley Hill Road, Gateshead, July 1990. I vaguely remember the Team Valley Yugo centre. Dabooka, Jim Bell, loserone and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 West Street Gateshead. Split_Pin, gm and Dyslexic Viking 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 South Shields. Chichester Roundabout Split_Pin, Dyslexic Viking, Shite Ron and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Chichester? "The Chai!", m9 🧐 Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabooka Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Just now, tooSavvy said: Chichester? "The Chai!", m9 🧐 Moving up here I could never understand how it's pronounced. Chi-chester or Chich-ester. I seem to get mocked regardless 😃 Jim Bell and tooSavvy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 Ch eye chest a Split_Pin, Dabooka and tooSavvy 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabooka Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 5 hours ago, Jim Bell said: Ch eye chest a So the second then. I think. I may need to get the Cougar back on the road for the next meet to hear it live. We can all take a vote Jim Bell and tooSavvy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmsguzzi Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 On 6/8/2021 at 8:16 PM, Jim Bell said: Millfield Flats? Sunderland. Hahnemann Court Bamboocarman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 Sunderland Uptown Top Rankin Bamboocarman and Dyslexic Viking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 Gateshead high street. Blake's Den, Dyslexic Viking and tooSavvy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 Hartlepool and Newton Aycliffe stocks? Might be of interest to @Mally Spottedlaurel and delux 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Went to Aycliffe many times as a spectatator, tarmac with big potholes here and there. Only been Hartlepool watching once. Far better facilities. I raced once at Brough Park, Newcastle. Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 I used to live behind Brough Park. There was loads of speedway but I never knew they ran cars there in the past! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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