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Rules! No Party Politics,swearing,derogatory remarks or we delete. Anyone sharing our content on Face Book must credit 'Hebburn and our Neighbours'. Re: Monkton Village 125 years ago
I KNOW that this is NOT pc, nowadays, but I recall a phrase "Monkton Dooley House", meaning a crazy place..... So I guess where this phrase came from? Because there was a home at Monkton for the mentally handicapped? Sorry if this offends, but it's just a child-hood memory....
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