Well remembered and written Andrew. Here is some extra history incase you find it useful to add it sometime. Did you know that the Dene is where the sandstone was excavated to build Hebburn Hall, hundreds and hundreds of years ago & that St John's Church was created from a Wing of the Hall late 1800s. Also the 4 'ponds' (that we've always called Lakes) were created by the Ellisons for their garden (which later became our Park) just like people today have a garden pond as a feature. They knew there was a ready supply of free water coming from Wardley area so all they had to do was form embankments to act like dams strengthened by rocks from a Hebburn Quarry and then allow the Bede Burn to fill them. The Lakes were created on agricultural pasture land (not worked out quarries like someone wrote in a book years ago). After filling the lakes, the overflow continued as a burn under Campbell Park Rd into the valley between Cambridge Ave & Windermere Cres toward Bedes Well then into a culvert and on towards Jarrow under the slag heap emerging at Pig Sty ave in Jarrow & then on to the river Don..