10 Forfar Road.

Erm, no, I've never lived on the Manor.





(This sounds like a conversation from one of those ghastly blind-dates one use to go on, in the old days )

Not me. Full of slags apparently.

Headland, West View, Deerpark, Rift House, Town Centre.................nah.

gods country

Horden?

I once lived in the most apt address for any man and more particularly me.

Fetish_bob 10 Inch

fens, seaton sorry

I did.

Flat above Wynyard Road video shop & Wynyard Mews

me
grange school bungalow for almost 10 years

I lived on the Fens and with a following wind when you went garden creeping, you could meg on Torquay Avenue, which borders the Manor?

I was a Fens boy too, though I went to Manor if that counts?

So loads of you have lived pretty much on the Manor, except you're so pretentious that you wanna call it "The Fens" to try and sound posh.

Let's be honest, the Fens is only really the slightly less scutty bit of Owton Manor and nowt to get excited about.

that will have the peasants REVOLTING
best get the gates back on throston bridge keep the buggers out

I had my first grope outside a house in Ednam Grove. Does that count?
I was a scruffy inner city kid meself. But I often used to lord it up at OMYC.

a live on the manor estate round corner from boydys parents

You are now entering the Headland...

Please put your watches back to 1973

Is there any truth in the one that the cod heads put up fishing nets to stop small pox getting onto the headland?? Or is that just another myth made up by the West Dockers?

small pox is what we Headlanders called west dockers

I'll have you know we were a cut above on the Fens.

At least we didn't think cutlery was jewellery........

ah the fens aka jam and bread hill

Bloody 'ell. There's an outbreak of class warfare on the bunker as to whether the Fens is posher than Owton Manor.

Behave y'selves.

'Artlepool is 'Artlepool, it's the definition of being working class !!!!

lived in 1 Forfar for 25 years, the lasses were great , even the girls on hungry hill were good

Ey, how did Owton Manor get it's name? I'm not aware that there was a manor or hamlet or anything in that area before they built the estate. Did they just make the name up?

is'nt the manor house next to manor school,and i looked it up owton means farm of owfa,so it looks as though they have'nt made it up

I thought owton meant clothed, as opposed to nowt on

I thought owton meant clothed, as opposed to nowt on
"Ave yer gorr owton"?
"Norr 'Ang on a minute I've got nowt on"

that was sh-it.

Sorry.

god hate to think what he makes of foggy furze

I've never thought about it!!!

I was a Foggy Furzite when I got affluent and moved away from Lynnfield.

Well, Haswell Avenue that is.

Anyhow never mind how the Manor got its name; what about Lynnfield and Dyke House? The last one sounds a bit dodgy.

I lived in 1 Forfar Road

Edit, at least i think i did. Dugout ??

People live in dugouts in Forfar road??
I knew the manor was rough but quand même!

Furze is gorse so I assume the flat area around that part of Stockton Road was covered in gorse and prone to fog. Still doesn't explain Owton Manor though.

Some interesting pics of public transport with destination boards indcating they were on the way to Foggy Furze in various places.

Mr Head i also lived very close to Haswell avenue? its possible i do know you after all

My sister and brother-in-law used to live in a cottage on Owton Fence farm, also shown as Owton Fens farm on some old maps.
It was owned by Mr Yuill who was just waiting to build his houses on it. That would be roughly where Fenton and Newark roads are now. There's also an Owton Grange farm on the footpath from the Manor to Brierton hamlet.
So the Owton bit is no mystery; that part of the (future) town was always called that.
It explains the Fens as well. The use of Lincolnshire place names for the streets was just an afterthought.

I should think the manor bit was just a ploy by the council to talk the area up. A cut above the older Rift House if you catch my meaning.

Of course that leaves the problem of why is Rift House so called. They could easily have called it Rift Dugout.

I was there from '77 to '82 but to be honest I don't recall much about the place.

Yeah, I was in West London from 1967-70 and thats a bit of a haze as well.

Thanks to Mr head for the research and explanation of the origins of the naming The Fens and Owton Manor estates. I still drive around Hartlepol thinking, 'it used to be all fields around here'.