Was talking to a mate i grew up with on gray' s this morning.
He said what would we have been doing 40 Year's Ago on a Sunday morning and as quick as a flash i said borrowing spud's and turnip's out of the feild's around hart and selling them to all the women in our street for sunday dinner.
Then he got me thinking doing a paper round every morning and mail on the night except saturday that was pool's then sell footie mail's around the street's after pool's.
Take lowcock's bottles back to the shop for the deposit then go around the back of the shop and borrow them back again and take them back again.
Dog walking. car washing. alway's looking to make a bob or two.
Don't think kid's today would be bothered to do that these day's.

Frigging hell, I couldn't be bothered to do all that either!!!!

depends how bad their crack habit is really

I love the 'borrowing' bits And you've missed out scrounging down the back of settee cushions for coins that have dropped out of visitors' pockets !

what was a settee. lol.

I remember doing some covert tattie picking because there was absolutely nothing to eat in the house.

Climbing over the back wall of the offy to pinch some lemonade bottle and taking them back in the front. (I was one of the original recyclers)

Getting arrested at 12 for selling raffle tickets around the houses. (There was no prize)

Getting chased from Raby Gardens by the Police when they were renovating the houses (c1972) for nicking copper boilers. We were weighing them in at the scrap yard at the scrap yard round the back at the bottom of Hart Lane

Did spud picking about 79 ( 13 years old). Did a morning at browny's farm,got he sacked us at half time for having spud fight, went to another farm on the afternoon, worked mybollox off got me £3 then the farmer said we could take as many spuds home as we could carry, so there's me ridng home on me Grifter, pockets full of spuds pleased as punch.

sound's like we where dragged up in the same neck of the woods mri.

yes phil i know him another scally.

his mam never washed the window's or swept the front.

Did she have mucky nets as well??

I seem to remember lots of people had it the wrong way round:

Steredent - great for cleaning your nets.
Bleach - great for cleaning your teeth

A scrap yard within a scrapyard, a within a wheel....
That back entrance to the scrap yard (whose name I forget) was just round the corner from me. It had an unused shop front in Hart Lane, in whose window for a long time was a huge Vincent 1200cc motor bike. The only Vincent I've ever seen.

What was the name of that scrapyard?

I was an apprentice rewiring those houses in Raby Gardens.
Was it you who broke in one night and nicked some of my tools I'd left?

Very very possibly! Was there a selection of screwdrivers and a hammer?

I blame "mums net", children should be seen and not let out.....murderers and perverts around every corner!

You got it Yid.

Annoyingly the shop front is just off to the right of this picture!



It was in the same yard as Sam Spalding's joinery but the name's completely gone. I think it was a double barrelled name like "Thompson and Johnson Scrap Merchants" or something. Malham's was a cobblers and I don't even remember there being a chippie next to it.

I grew up in Jesmond road and thre used to be a big yard top of our back alley called either McClusky's or something like clandikes

I remember squeezing through the gap in the fence to go in but cant think what was kept in there. Anyone remember it you got to it from Hart Lane where the lights are Jesmond road crossing

I love nostalgic pictures of Hartlepool. Here's another one.

Bastard !!