Trevor Jordache being found under the patio- what a story line!

Also loved Harry Cross- old bugger that lived in the bungalow with his mate Ralph and one of the original characters

Top viewing back the day

Do you remember the name of the window cleaner Kettering

Sinbad! He was an absolute hoot- a Northern Del Boy!

Brookside,Crossroads?ffs?please don't tell me you recorded them on betamax

That's the man Kettering a man who could be cleaning anyone's windows in little Hartlepool

Benny Hill Show
Love Thy Neighbour good humorous banter

No one mentioned Crossroads - assuming that was your guilty pleasure, Benny

As for Brookside - not aware that I ever recorded it however it would have been on VHS using a Scotch video tape ('Re record, not fade away') for the record!

Remember we had an old dude with thick NHS glasses who cleaned our windows for years- he was a proper old pro, with fag balanced on his lip as he leaned out off his ladder. He must have been worth a fortune as used to see him across the town.

It all cash aswell so making a few Bob is very likely

Greatham airport

Being dragged down Oxford Road by me mam to get a haircut off Keith "Killer" Graham.

Not long after I met my future ex-wife, she invited me to a Tuesday night at the United Services Club in Miers Avenue - and I'm sure it was him who was one half of "Keith on the organ and Billy on the drums".

Could be my mind playing tricks on me, but if it was him, he was a better organist than he was a fucking barber..!!!

Crown Ale, it’s was a smashing drink, got you smashed !

Crown Ale, I,m still missing a weekend in 70s

Queens Rink where most met their future wives, and big band Friday nights with the cream of the country’s dance bands such as Ted Heath, Ken McIntosh, Eric Delaney appeared. Also The Empire I saw a very young John Barry with his group who turned into a great composer.

Seen pictures of the Rink now from your post I know it was called Queens Rink. When did it close and when was it pulled down

Rubix cubes

Compendium of games in a box,you got at Christmas with snakes and ladders, ludo, draughts, tiddlywinks etc.

having to sit through the black and white minstral show because your ma liked it. you only thought how bloody boring it was and not a slur on the black population.

Mr foooking Blobby

milk tokens.

Little bottles of free milk for kids at school.

Wesley Wilburn - used to write to the Mail under the name of Nuf Said.
Remember a story about him going to buy a nice juicy steak from the butcher's in the covered market. Anything for the wife, Wes ?
Nah - she can have a tin of Chappie.
Think he used to have the contract to clean the windows in Middleton Grange.

Kites made from bamboo sticks using brown paper pot of glue & newspapers and ball of string. Great days without computers and mobiles.

Lasses that walked around who were not covered in tattoos

Chopper n Chipper bikes

Raleigh Grifter - with red, yellow and blue gears!

Plastic bread clips to re fasten your loaf. Also used by kids on bike spooks n break cables. Once again great fun from nothing for kids before computers and mobiles.

Frido plastic balls great for floating corners and similar to what they play with today in the money league and the football league. Stylo Matchmaker footy boots the best ever and believe Kev Johnston may have worn them. Billy Horner's contract has it finished yet? Steetleys particularly the chimmney which was Hartlepool's most iconic landmark. The yellow smoke that blew across town when the wind was coming from the east from Steetley's. That ship you could see for years moored over the Clarence road wall in the docks. Duplicate green United buses that took you to and from Crimdon Dene. Gadges at Pools wearing proper flat caps. British West Hartlepool. Eddie Edgar. Seaton baths so warm not like leisure centre pools today. Bruce Moore and Gents tackle shop. Everything in Church Street. Ah such memories.

The Santa Bus - remember it driving down Clarence Road during midweek game before the Cyril Knowles Stand was put in and all you could see was the sleigh moving, as the Bus was the same height as the fence!

Pubs that had an "off-door" attached to them.

Shops that would sell a nine-year old 10 tabs if they had a note from their mam.

Arrows made of bamboo with playing-cards for flights that you launched with a piece of string.

Gat guns.

Chinese throwing stars you made in metalwork at school.

Thorn
Geo. Hudson,
Boanson’s
Edgar Phillips
Heslop & Hall,
Barron’s van hire
Kirkcoop tyres,
George Clarke & N.E.M
Richardson & Westgarth
Shipbuilding, steelworks, coal mining, Siemens, Saxo, the chicken factory, the tin boxes….where did it all go wrong?

Gotcha covered
Tan ya hide
Ox blood leather box jackets
Long leathers
Black macks
Jodhpur boots
Dublin boots

What were we thinking, or was that only me!!

RHM at Greatham

HQ Engineering on Burn Road

Old tip at Seaton- that they built houses on!

if only sussex. bigger turn off than bad breath.

Slag a women off who has tattoos and they says it’s a form of art, yeh wait till you fill out when you get older or the skin shrinks.

Browns woodyard.

Keegan and Bremner F.A.Cup final both sent off for fighting Keegan had no chance of beating mad Billy but in the moment thought he was hard You could see the total horror on his face the very second he calmed down

Sunderland beating Leeds 1-0 in the 1973 F.A.Cup final. Still the greatest giant killing ever in football in my opinion. Sunderland only won the cup twice in total the other time being 1937 crazy dates. A few of the players ended up playing for Pools including Bobby Kerr.

Christopher Brown’s used to be Burt Boulton, now Tesco car park.

Ah the wealth of local employers and national industries that local councillors have stood by and watched close one by one.

Lionel Richie - who used to run the Chinese on the Marina!

I was an apprentice working in Leeds at the time, we got a stoppy back in the pub and watched the game, tbh I can’t remember much about it apart from drinking Double Diamond another blast from the past.

I was there that day, my one and only appearance at a Wembley F A Cup Final. I had a ticket for the Leeds end which had a face value of £1. I managed to swap it with a Leeds fan who had a ticket for the Sunderland end. I then changed it for a seat (£3) with a young lad who wanted to be behind the goal.

They say that the pens they use are so much finer…..but human skin hasn’t changed and will stretch…

The Irish workers who invaded teesside to build the A19 flyover.

Ugandan refugees and Vietnamese boat people.

Fenwicks prop field and its demise early 80s,last pit prop yard. Hansa lager
Aged 15 getting pissed on 6 pints of Stronarm at the Catcote.
The hippies getting a pasting at same place usually ever Friday.

Knobby Jack a council street cleaner we were convinced he lived in a garage behind catty shops

Corned beef slice chips gravy in Lynn St

Little India- down by Golden Flats-
My Dad would regale us of stories about seeing a horse been kept indoors - poking it's head out of one of the downstairs windows on Bombay Grove!