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Thursday header photo

Posted by Norman Dunn on April 21, 2022, 8:53:12

If Todays header had been 20 yards back it would have shown Mill Lane junction on the rigt with a bit more of the covered Reservoir. We can still see part of it though. Mill Lane was sometimes nicknamed 'The Waterworks Rd' .
The houses on the left in the distance are on South Drive, which is still there today.
That view today would show a new Housing Estate on the left where Reyrolles high voltage 'Clothier Building' was situated.

Victoria-Rd-West-view-from-Mill-Lane-area

Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by Richard Gray on April 21, 2022, 9:43:39, in reply to "Thursday header photo"

It's how I remember it. There was a cut through to lambley crescent and blue house road next to reservoir.

Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by Mac Cummings on April 21, 2022, 10:09:48, in reply to "Thursday header photo"

I remember shivering at that bus-stop.
Fortunately my Dad had a car so that didnt happen too much!!

Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by Lilian on April 21, 2022, 11:41:46, in reply to "Re: Thursday header photo"

The house on the left was symons last one on victoria road west.

Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by Sheila on April 21, 2022, 17:28:39, in reply to "Re: Thursday header photo"

I remember Ian Symonds and his girlfriend Audrey, at Reyrolles .A long time ago. I believe they both married others. I also remember is sister Avril.

Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by Lilian on April 22, 2022, 15:36:00, in reply to "Re: Thursday header photo"

I well remember Ian and avrIL their mother was a lovely lady,I remember her telling me that during the war one night she was making a pan of broth when the sirene went and she carried her pan of broth into the air raid shelter,which was inside the reservoir,hahaThat header photograph brings back happy memories for me Norman Thank you.

Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by Sheila on April 22, 2022, 19:25:00, in reply to "Re: Thursday header photo"

Lilian, did you know a lot of those houses were rented. I used to know a friend who I though were better off as the lived in the private houses, only to discover a lot of them were rented. Gilhurst a butchers in Jarrow owned a few of them. Interesting. I do know the cost of some £500.00

Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by Lilian on April 22, 2022, 21:48:31, in reply to "Re: Thursday header photo"

Yes Sheila I did know that some of the houses in Lambley cres were also rented out.they were built in, I was told 1937, Bluehouse road were £240 and Victoria road west were £320.of course that would have been a lot of money then.Some of the folk who rented had to move out,when the owners wanted the property back.

Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by Allan Campbell on April 21, 2022, 12:21:43, in reply to "Thursday header photo"

If the photo had been taken a bit further back it would have shown the entrance into the Reservoir itself. That was probably at the middle of that side.

I remember the fence around it and we got in through a hole in it off the footpath to Blue House.

The building that was on the top at the SW end just cannot remember if there was a door into it, I assume it was bricked up.

When was it decommissioned?

Allan C.

Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by Norman Dunn on April 22, 2022, 16:53:30, in reply to "Re: Thursday header photo"

Hi Lilian,
Its always nice to hear your experiences from years gone bye. You have a marvellous memory and this board needs regulars like you to pass on those memories. I knew it was a covered reservoir and remember seeing gates but I wasn't certain it was an air raid shelter. It must have been drained of water and made into a air raid shelter. Is that right?

Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by Lilian on April 22, 2022, 19:04:52, in reply to "Re: Thursday header photo"

Thank you Norman for your kind comments,My family went to live in Bluehouse road after the war in 1949 so I don't know how the reservoir was treated to make it into an air raid shelter.I do remember it being demolished though.my mother said she was sick of all the dust that it caused.

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Re: Thursday header photo

Posted by AJG on April 21, 2022, 14:45:22, in reply to "Thursday header photo"

I love this photo, one of the few showing the Reservoir that was such a big part of my childhood. I also remember the cut going through to Lambley Crescent, where I grew up.

The first house there by the reservoir, I believe Ronnie Blakey and his family lived there. He was the Insurance Man and I remember used to come every week and collect payments. I remember his leather money pouch and him writing the payments down in a little book. I think he and his wife had two daughters who were a bit older than me. I think he was still alive as of a few years ago, though I don't know.

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