The little joke shop opposite the bus terminal Seaton.

Dandelion and Burdock

Yes the proper stuff not like what is sold now

Ernie Pythian, Bob Newton and Keith Houchen. Being showered with rust from the old metal stand on The Town End.

Mac's Magic

That's the one

Friday night horror films on Tyne-Tees.

Anyone remember the blacksmith opposite the pub on main road in hart village?

thats a nightmare from the past.

Jimmy Young on the wireless.

Our school dinners were cooked off site and delivered, by the time we got them they were lukewarm even cold.

ours were cooked by child haters or those who got the sack from the nazi death camps for the food offered to prisoners. no one could decide which they were. at least bloody vegans were not arround those days and we all suffered alike.

Never used to witness any of the teachers eating the school dinners in my day, I wonder why ?

The cane

Oscar Coxon

28 inch waist trousers

Pirate Radio ( a ship of shore ) in the eighties.

Loons

Forgotten about that.
Had a little Tranny(No not that kind, You perv)
And listen to Radio Luxemburg, And Radio Caroline while going to sleep.

My recollection was about 10 yrs earlier.

Radio Caroline started in 1964 and, as far as I can recall, BBC Radio 1 was set up to compete with the pirate stations. Would you believe that Lux
embourg started broadcasting in the UK in 1933 (according to Wiki)!!!

Oscar was my history teacher in the last 2 years of school. A fearful character, but an excellent teacher. He died of cancer around 20/25 years ago.

Just looked it up it dissolved in 1992. So we both correct.

That's Radio Luxemburg not Radio Caroline which seems like it's still going but now online

Vossey winning 3.9 million on lottery. Why didn't he buy Pools he loved football n played in goal on Sundays.

Hart Road school and Joe Buckle's barbers on the Central- you could ask for any style and you always got a short back and sides!

The steelworks and blast furnaces (British Steel Corporation). The docks before the marina. The Stranton Arms. Great pint - well they couldn't get much closer to the brewery. The Golden Flats pub. Bob Newton and Keith Houchen. The old wooden stand. The Green 'Un. The docker gadge on the swinging plank with a thumbs up which should be on our club badge to remind us of the old days. The team of 57/58. Kevin Johnston and Mick Spelman. Tricky Dicky Malone and those runs down the right wing. Peter Kioso. The Carlton Club. The Shades pub and The old Alma. The Spotted Calf. Steam engines pulling coal wagons from the collieries. The Heugh before it was allowed to deteriorate. The after glow of a rare Pools away win. Brian Clough and Peter Taylor. Binns and all those TV sets in the windows showing the football scores. Steetleys - forever a part of Hartlepool. The chimmney should have been kept. Best daymark on the whole coast. Fishing for billet off The Pilot and Middleton Pier when there were fish to be had without trying. The summer of 1966.

The Chipper club - providing names, ages and addresses of all those youngsters on a public platform...........

Lawrence and Crystal Palace game (the one with Bob Newton winning a new suit and scoring twice up The Town End where 5,000 Palace fans were stunned. ) Terry Venables was manager of them that day.

Zokko, Skane and The Banana Splits on a Saturday morning on the telly.

ABC Cinema on a saturday morning.

Watching Prisoner Cell Block H- Mondays and Thursdays
Bea Smith, Lizzie Wordsworth, Joan the Freak Ferguson and Ian Smith (Harold Bishop) and Ray Meagre (Alf Roberts) in 3/4 different roles.
Going away for a week or two to another ITV region and seeing a completely different version

The Aussies clearly had a very small acting pool as they all popped up in Sons and Daughters, Young Doctors, The Sullivan's, A Country Practice, Flying Doctors and laterly Neighbours and Home and Away.

I was gutted when this was felled- particularly living out of town - always an iconic landmark when driving back home.

Double post

Pretending you weren't in when the catalogue or the provvy woman came knocking.

Using coins cut out of canvass to put in your gas meter

Wrap tinfoil round one side of a 10p and insert in a telephone box, gave you 50p of call time, I tried it, no answer put the phone down got a 50p back.
There was a story of people making coins from ice and using them in the gas meter, only discovered when gasman wondered why there was water in the money box.

Fred Gents barbers in Melrose street, anything for the weekend sir. I was only 12

Me Nanna n Grandad lived in Melrose St.

Plastercine
It stunk.

Mitchell’s for a card of segs plus the best example of sign writing above any shop

JT Atkinsons in Musgrave street, sawdust on the floor and the smell of the beasts

the eagle comic and dan dare.

Remember buying the first ever eagle from Kitty’s shop in Bramley St. wish I had kept it would be worth a few Bob now. Only thing you collected them days was seacoal.

The tiny throston petrol station on the corner of the roundabout opposite the current throston petrol station.I believe it had 3 pumps and a tiny wooden cabin for the bloke who worked there to keep him dry. Also a second tiny petrol station on corner just past old Joe Buckles on central.

The steelworks bridge with all the steam coming up through the planks.
The mothball fleet in the docks and that terrace of houses underneath the coal staithes.
The little cafe opposite seaton baths, wasn't it called the kingfisher or something like that?

Sweet shop opposite Elwick Road skool that sold sports mixtures.

The cafe opposite the baths was called the Woodcutter owing to it being alongside the prop field which caught fire around 1950ish

Two small farms one opposite the Queens and the other to the side of it which is now the hospital.

Burt Ward and Adam West kicking arse..Planet of Apes

Brookside soap