I thought I'd tell you all that recently I got in touch with the Housing Developers who are building a New Housing Estate on land where Hawthorn Leslies used to be in Hebburn. I'd heard this new estate is going to be called 'Kelly's Wharf' after Mountbatten's ship HMS Kelly.
I wasn't happy about the name (because I know quite a bit about Mountbatten) so told them that the land they are building on is where the great Andrew Leslie brought 100 years of work to Hebburn employing thousands of locals so surely the estate should be named something like 'Leslie's Wharf'. I told him that HMS Kelly was named after a Hampshire man born in 1871 and a ww1 'Admiral of the Fleet' But with no links whatsoever to Hebburn.
The reply from Mark at < Info@Kelly's Wharf.com> was negative (ie not interested) so Ive been onto my 3 Councillors and had 2 of them visit me recently. They understand everything I've said, so hopefully they can meet the builders and help me out.
Whilst they were here I showed them my latest Powerpoint Presentation about our ' River Tyne's Shipbuilding Heritage' on a large screen TV and they were really impressed.It will be ideal to show visitors in a new 'Tyne Heritage Museum' that people have been asking for as well as our Municipal Buildings such as 'Hebburn Central' 'Jarrow Focus' 'The Word' in Shields.