Aye the chimbley is Camerons. The church just to the left of the obelisk is St George's in York Road. You can see the building where the King John's is now on the extreme right. The photo is indeed taken out of the GH Window.

Hey I know the area y'know! I used to knock around with mates who lived in Ward Street which is the street you can see behind the small garden. And the old feller was in the TA and took me inside the TA center a fair few times before they moved to Easington Road.

a few of us lads joined up in the army cadets in that place an ex copper was the head hocho there but i don't remember his name
the only trouble with old pics is there are a lot of fakes around and my guess is this is one of them too much going on in this shot

going back to the seaton baths picture can't anybody remember the council tip over the road,on a windy day there was loads of rubbish blowing about,i can remember coming out of the baths and i always seemed to get something in my eyes that had blown across the road from the tip

It was still the timber yard when I went to the baths!

and a slag heap

i love seeing these old pictures of the town,you look at them and realise what a mess the council have made of it in the name of so called progress,if only they had kept some and enhanced them instead of knocking them down

What is the steeple to the left of the picture?

st johns

Is it a car park now?

Me and me Dad stood up the road from where that pic of the war memorial was taken in front of the old nursery which is now the site of the Civic Centre for the march past to mark the death of King George VI.

Only a nipper like.

Same era as when he took me to Pools games and when the trains went past you couldn't see the pitch for steam.

EEeeeeeeee nostalgia can be cured with ibubrofen.........or is that neuralgia.

Is that the dome on top of the Central Stores to the right of the big spire. Was there a church with a spire down Park Road down the hill from York Road.

Not 100% sure but I think the site of St John's got engulfed by the later phases of the shopping centre - WH Smiths and all tha'.

I think the chimbley might be the one at Durham Paper Mill near the old fire station in Clark Street.
I was told that ships used to use it as a navigation guide when approaching the town as the Mills name was lit up on the side of it.
But that might have been a bit of old cobblers.

this is a pic of the tower and the demolition of park road school
i think it was finefare that was the first shopon the right in the centre as you walked down between the church and shopping centre

this is the view of the baths most of the oldies on here will remember

is it just me or does the picture of the war momrial and kings johns area look better in this photo than it does now, also why doesnt seaton have attractions like that anymore rather than the chav packed arcades

yes its a car park,in the early eighties st johns church hall was the fore runner of the studio,peter gowland was running workshops to teach people to play musical instruments it then moved to st pauls hall in murray st and eventually to durham st,i think thats how it started could be wrong like

Bloody Hell, I'd completely forgotten about that church and school and stuff in Park Road- we went to Playscheme there one summer when I was a kid!

I remember attending a boxing club a St Johns and also walking down an alley to access the shopping centre before WH smiths exisisted.

my dad was saying there was an old walkway or back street with a wall were wilko is now as he used to play in the gardens near there and him and his mate wrote their names on the wall. My old man used to work for Best as a chippy and went in binns/wilko to do some work and the wall was still there with his name on.

Could be a tall tail tho.

Gremms that's dead recent that photo is - it was never called anything as pretentious as "Seaton Swimming Centre when I went!!
But yeah that's the frontage we remember, made out of good old Seaton concrete like the bus station and the North Shelter.

I bet "North Shelter" has got some people wondering.

Where do you get some of these old photos from? If you took them yourself you could make an 'ellish book out of them.

That would be the back street between Ward street and Binns, where all the rusty metal fire escapes descended. And the garden is no doubt the little one on the photo. Unless he meant the bullfield which adjoined the GH before the Civic Centre was built.
Just to the left of that garden but out of sight on the photo, Swainson Street continued for a good distance parallel to Stockton Street and there was a bigass sawmill in it.

As for it looking smart, yeah, it did look good, although right close by there were mazes of streets full of tightly packed terraced houses all in a pretty sorry state.

That probably were my dads mate lived as my dad lived in Albany Street, and think it was the gardens you were on about, also remember mentioneing the "bull field" (why was it called that) as he played cricket i think on their with his mates.

playscheme! we had no playscheme,we used to make our own entertainment,we used to get the bus to the brus go through the horseshoe tunnel and walk to crimdon,other times we got the bus to the headland and spent allday crabbing in the rock pools

You got me there Mutts. What the fook is skemmy land?

Ey up Mr Mutts I've just found out I had family in owld town. I might be your uncle. They were builders.

Sounds familiar?

Have we? Who's that then??

From memory they were on the Smith's side, there were two families where a daughter and son got married, I'll sort it out and give Mr Mutts a fright. Got the addresses and everything.

They've knocked the place down now.

they have built new houses on there and they look similar to the old ones,only difference is they've got glass in the windows

how many times did you cross here then?

Family pic?

You know all those 15000-17000 crowds we used to get in the late 40s/early 50s, e.g., 17118 vs Hull in 1948/1949 ((c) MadJohn) ?

Where the hell did we put them?

Rot in hell you child abusing bitch.

Strange that, I like a bit of Bluegrass.

They were all stood up, seats were only for poofs in those days.

Your Grandmother on me mothers side, Margaret Ellen Smith, known as Nelly, was born in owld town. Her father was called Smith (obviously), her mother was called Spence before she was married. Both families lived in owld town but I'm sorting out addresses.

funny that, my nanna was called Margaret Ellen too

PU LI AND PARMO TWINS THEN?

Thats certainly our kid on the left, I'd recognise the haircut and those eyebrows anywhere

I always wondered where that picture had went