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Old 10th August 2018, 13:23
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Originally Posted by Ian Hay View Post
I remember the greyhound stadium,there was also a 10-pin bowling alley there,plus a petrol garage.Prior to all that,it was a football ground.
All long gone to become a housing estate,imaginatively named " The Stadium Estate".

I, and a Blue Star 2nd mate called Michael Holland, lodged with a Mrs Ennis, a widow whose son, also Michael, worked on the colliers running from the Tyne down to the Southern power stations on the Thames and at Shoreham. Don't know if he is a member on SN.


Michael married a teacher called Marjorie and went working for Trinity House out of Harwich but later someone told me he was a Tees Pilot. Sadly I haven't heard of him for many years.
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