The Poolie Bunker

by **Kenny Bottles** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:07 pm

Horden, Easington and Blackhall actually having pits - rather than nowadays where they really are the pits...!!l

The locals don't refer to Blackhall as Smack-hall for nowt.

by **Johnjo1** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:08 pm

The Wagga Moon. It would light up the area for a few minutes.

by **Jamie1952** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:40 pm

derwent wrote:
Jamie1952 wrote:What was the name of the I think Greek Restaurant in Church Street, I remember before all day opening having an after hours drinks session in there on a Saturday afternoon. We might have bought a meal but I can’t remember now, it was 1976.

The Three Arches, Jamie.

Cheers Derwent, we had a couple of after hour Saturday afternoon sessions in there, no questions asked.

by **Leggie43** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 2:33 pm

Steetly chimney

by **Sussex UK** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 6:42 pm

Bluestreak wrote:Rickets

Hair Lice...crabs..all making a comeback.

by **Leggie43** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 7:51 pm

The magic roundabout

by **Sussex UK** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 8:30 pm

Leggie43 wrote:The magic roundabout

We need to move along with the times .Is sooty and sweep gender friendly ?

by **Snowy** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:17 pm

I wonder how the Viz is coping with the woke agenda nowadays, the idea of ‘Sid the Transgender Advocate’ and ‘The Two Obese Condom Ladies’.is unthinkable, surely not.

by **Sussex UK** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:27 pm

Snowy wrote:I wonder how the Viz is coping with the woke agenda nowadays, the idea of ‘Sid the Transgender Advocate’ and ‘The Two Obese Condom Ladies’.is unthinkable, surely not.

Any truth in it... Cider Woman and Brown bottle have given up the drink ??

by **Snowy** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:32 pm

Sussex UK wrote:
Snowy wrote:I wonder how the Viz is coping with the woke agenda nowadays, the idea of ‘Sid the Transgender Advocate’ and ‘The Two Obese Condom Ladies’.is unthinkable, surely not.

Any truth in it... Cider Woman and Brown bottle have given up the drink ??

Inevitable.

by **Leggie43** » Sat Sep 30, 2023 10:21 pm

Half Crown

by **Snowy** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 6:13 am

Pubs closing on Saturday afternoons and shops on Wednesday afternoons.

by **Jamie1952** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 7:32 am

Snowy wrote:Pubs closing on Saturday afternoons and shops on Wednesday afternoons.

Pubs closing every afternoon and 12 till 2 on a Sunday then open at 7 till was it 10.30 or 11 ?
You could get a drink at the Greyhound Stadium on a Sunday afternoon if the Stock Car Racing was on, we had a few good Sunday afternoon’s in there.

by **Poolie_on_Tyne** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 8:31 am

Steam locomotives puffing up & down the line alongside Clarence Road, with their smoke billowing over the eastern side of the ground. The engine sheds in Mainsforth Terace (shed code 51C) & the goods railway line that crossed Whitby Street & ran up to the point where Tesco's giant car park now lies, with the nearby Durham Paper Mills chimney stack.

by **Snowy** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 8:48 am

Poolie_on_Tyne wrote:Steam locomotives puffing up & down the line alongside Clarence Road, with their smoke billowing over the eastern side of the ground. The engine sheds in Mainsforth Terace (shed code 51C) & the goods railway line that crossed Whitby Street & ran up to the point where Tesco's giant car park now lies, with the nearby Durham Paper Mills chimney stack.

The multiple railway lines crossing the road near the old bus depot from the docks and being able to get from the bottom of Church Street to Middlegate via the docks as kids on your bikes.

by **Our Younguns Dad** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:04 am

Poolie_on_Tyne wrote:Steam locomotives puffing up & down the line alongside Clarence Road, with their smoke billowing over the eastern side of the ground. The engine sheds in Mainsforth Terace (shed code 51C) & the goods railway line that crossed Whitby Street & ran up to the point where Tesco's giant car park now lies, with the nearby Durham Paper Mills chimney stack.

I can remember us playing Tranmere when they had Jimmy Cumbes in goal. One of those smoke billowing trains went past and from the town end he couldn't see much past the eighteen yard line. He wasn't half flapping around, probably wondering whether a shot was going to come out of the gloom

by **accrington fan** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:37 am

Poolie_on_Tyne wrote:Steam locomotives puffing up & down the line alongside Clarence Road, with their smoke billowing over the eastern side of the ground. The engine sheds in Mainsforth Terace (shed code 51C) & the goods railway line that crossed Whitby Street & ran up to the point where Tesco's giant car park now lies, with the nearby Durham Paper Mills chimney stack.

can still remember the smells back then of that plus the steel works. its all still stuck in my nostrals years after they have gone.

by **Kenny Bottles** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:21 am

Homoerotic adverts featuring Henry Cooper and Kevin Keegan.

It wasn't just Brut that was being splashed all over...!

by **Bluestreak** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:53 pm

Poolie_on_Tyne wrote:Steam locomotives puffing up & down the line alongside Clarence Road, with their smoke billowing over the eastern side of the ground. The engine sheds in Mainsforth Terace (shed code 51C) & the goods railway line that crossed Whitby Street & ran up to the point where Tesco's giant car park now lies, with the nearby Durham Paper Mills chimney stack.

Yes West Hartlepool 51c

by **Bluestreak** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:58 pm

The snug in the Stranton where you pushed the bell for the barmaid to come and serve you.
"6 Strongarm please pet"

by **Leggie43** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 4:44 pm

ABC Cinema

by **Snowy** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 4:47 pm

Benn Scully.

by **Leggie43** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 4:56 pm

Woolworths

by **jumbodabber** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:22 pm

John S Rae

by **Kenny Bottles** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:51 pm

Cod battered and fried with the skin left on.

by **derwent** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 6:34 pm

Go Ask Alice wrote:Cod battered and fried with the skin left on.

In beef fat.

by **Leggie43** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 10:49 pm

King Oswy School ( Howard Lumley Clifford & Bulmer )

by **Kettering Poolie** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:11 pm

Durham playing County Cricket at Park Drive

by **Ozzy Saltburn** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:43 pm

The Docker

by **Ozzy Saltburn** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:43 pm

Coun John Curry

by **Kettering Poolie** » Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:50 pm

A&E at the General :angry-screaming:

by **Kenny Bottles** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:04 am

Vince's van, Jimmy Simons and Lanigans.

by **Snowy** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:42 am

Kettering Poolie wrote:A&E at the General

Magistrates Courts.

by **Snowy** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:42 am

EF number plates.

by **kevin pooles gloves** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:53 am

St. Hildas Hospital on the Headland.
Guessing it shut about 1980!

by **Jamie1952** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:40 am

West playing playing Premier League at Brierton Lane.

by **Snowy** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:46 am

kevin pooles gloves wrote:St. Hildas Hospital on the Headland.
Guessing it shut about 1980!

Later than that,….. I was in casualty for two nights in 84….and my next time was 88 in the general..so sometime in between. On reflection I’ve been in quite a few times work related…. :laugh:

by **Snowy** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:47 am

Jamie1952 wrote:West playing playing Premier League at Brierton Lane.

West playing at the Vic and turning the pitch into a ploughed field without a tractor.

by **accrington fan** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:12 am

long queues at seaton on a decent sunday waiting for buses back to town.

by **Kettering Poolie** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:18 am

Cameron's Hospital

by **Jamie1952** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:38 am

Snowy wrote:
Jamie1952 wrote:West playing playing Premier League at Brierton Lane.

West playing at the Vic and turning the pitch into a ploughed field without a tractor.

Didn’t Pools get to keep the hospitality boxes and the scoreboards ?

by **Grayhoundend** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 11:09 am

Dripping Bread

by **Leggie43** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 12:36 pm

The Brus Arms

by **Jamie1952** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:03 pm

School Dinners.

by **Kenny Bottles** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:24 pm

Lowcocks fizzy pop - and the truck that brought them to your street.

by **Jamie1952** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:29 pm

Ringtons Tea.

by **Ozzy Saltburn** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:39 pm

Nicky Featherstone

by **Leggie43** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:11 pm

King Oswy pub

by **Kettering Poolie** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:10 pm

The Pink Domino

by **derwent** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:43 pm

Blue double decker buses. Church Street to Headland.

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