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Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Norman Dunn on April 25, 2022, 8:09:38

Todays header shows the lower part of the old Ballast Hill at the bottom of Ann St. It also shows the missing properties on the left, where the German bomb hit during WW2. The left side of the street is still there but the right side is long gone.

Ann-St-1960

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Allan Campbell on April 25, 2022, 8:57:16, in reply to "Monday's view of Anne St"

That’s taken at the Church St. corner very near the St. Andrews buildings.

Allan C.

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Thomas Buglass on April 25, 2022, 10:18:04, in reply to "Re: Monday's view of Anne St"

On the opposite corner is now Abbeys Indian Takeaway, can just see the end of it.

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Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Davy on April 25, 2022, 11:00:43, in reply to "Monday's view of Anne St"

Remember the brightly painted house on the end of the block at the bottom, and a woman that used to sell pies and peas from her front door in the middle of it.

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Lilian on April 25, 2022, 11:25:12, in reply to "Monday's view of Anne St"

Norman
I remember being in our air raid shelter that night when Anne street was bombed.the noise was terrific,incidently one woman whose house it was posted on the Hebburn board,that it was their house and although they were safe,they lost their home and all that was in it.I often wonder where she is these days.

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Norman Dunn on April 25, 2022, 11:47:40, in reply to "Re: Monday's view of Anne St"

Hi Lilian, I was always told there were deaths in the Ann St bombing so checked the North East War Diaries website and found this record of the 25th Aug 1940.

Hebburn.. Two dead and six injured.. Five High Explosive bombs dropped in Hebburn causing damage to houses and water mains. A number of unexploded bombs fell in Tennants Fields causing no damage. [The fatalities occurred in Ann Street.]

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Lilian on April 25, 2022, 13:24:48, in reply to "Re: Monday's view of Anne St"

Norman
The woman who said on the board about her family home being bombed posted by the name of M. Parr that is all I knowi she said she was the same age as me way back thenI.

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Tom Barker on April 25, 2022, 13:47:53, in reply to "Re: Monday's view of Anne St"

Just in view on the left of the photo it shows a little of a shop, would that be Reanies fish shop.?l

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Norman Dunn on April 25, 2022, 16:08:39, in reply to "Re: Monday's view of Anne St"

Yes Tom that corner shop was Renies fish'n'chip shop and still there today as an Indian Takeaway.
The bombing hit numbers 18, 20, 22 & 24 so that could have been 4 families.
I think I heard the names of the dead a long time ago, and luckily it was just 2 deaths rather than 4 families.

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Davy on April 26, 2022, 0:45:54, in reply to "Re: Monday's view of Anne St"

Someone on pictorial hebburn says his uncle Robert Bruce and his son were killed in the bombing as they went back into the house to save their dog and its new born puppies.

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Llyn Green on April 25, 2022, 19:30:40, in reply to "Monday's view of Anne St"

The first house on the right looks as if a corner doorway has been bricked up.
Was it a corner shop at some time?

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Davy on April 25, 2022, 22:08:50, in reply to "Re: Monday's view of Anne St"

The other end of the street was built the same way.

Re: Monday's view of Anne St

Posted by Davy on April 26, 2022, 0:51:19, in reply to "Monday's view of Anne St"

Also brendon foster used to live down this street, remember him passing up past lyon street years ago.

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