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Thrift Street

Posted by peter cook on 17/2/2025, 6:50 am

Thrift Street, South Shields in 1938 with the Union Flag pub on the right and the Bee Hive pub on the left.

Re: Thrift Street

Posted by Geordieboy ns on 17/2/2025, 10:08 pm, in reply to "Thrift Street"

Another nice photo Peter. I don't know the street it seems to be very close to the ship yards. Probably long gone. Wonder what they did with the coble stones ?

Re: Thrift Street

Posted by Davy on 18/2/2025, 2:51 am, in reply to "Re: Thrift Street"

Looks like tyne dock engineering me wife worked there.

Re: Thrift Street

Posted by Davy on 18/2/2025, 2:57 am, in reply to "Re: Thrift Street"

Looks like I got that wrong

Re: Thrift Street in 1940 map

Posted by Norman on 18/2/2025, 9:09 am, in reply to "Re: Thrift Street"

Here is a map with Thrift St on it 1940 and its next to9 the Docks.

Re: Thrift Street in 1940 map

Posted by Geordieboy ns on 19/2/2025, 12:18 am, in reply to "Re: Thrift Street in 1940 map"

Thank you Norman, after looking at your map I can identify with rhe street. Back to the cobblestones street. Many streets were paved that way but the stones were replaced with a smother surface material. What happened to the cobble stones, there must have been huge amounts of them ?

Cobbles

Posted by Allan Campbell on 19/2/2025, 5:50 am, in reply to "Re: Thrift Street in 1940 map"

What happened to them. A lot were covered with Tarmac but were they later lifted, I think so.

The laying of phone cables and other services would be problematic if there were still cobbles.

It’s rare but sometimes you do see the old cobbles when some road surfaces deteriorate, back lanes and other less used roads.

There is only a few places in our area with cobbles, one in the Montpellier district of Harrogate and the other in the centre of Knaresborough, they are pedestrian areas.

Allan C.

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