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Can you remember? Can you remember?
Ganny Willis - The Pink House
- On Sunday evening she would open her front room and sell sweets and lemonade to the passers - by who made the regular Sunday evening stroll from the Village to the top of Carr's Bank. The sweets were displayed on a big round table. Ganny Willis always wore black with a cameo brooch at her neck.
Fernleigh Ladies Hairdressers
- The shop open about 1934 with a special offer of a permanent wave for 5/=. Marcel waves 1/=, hair cut 6d, shampoo and set 2/=. There's no Wave like a Eugene Wave - 10/6d and it took 3 hours for hot perming. There were 4 cubicles for privacy. A high chair for the little ones. Hair was dyed with red henna.
Lloyds Bank
- when it was on the other side of Front Street. It was open for only 4 mornings a week. There was a guard with a dog outside.
The Crown Garage
- with petrol pumps by the roadside. It is now Barclay's Bank.
The Piccadilly Cake Shop
- site of the late lamented Northern Rock Building Society. Lovely steak pies! Cakes ! Cream when no-one else could get it.
Eggleston's General Dealers
- black treacle out of a barrel, belly pork and a wooden counter.
Thompson's Red Stamp Stores
- next door to Spoor Chapel
The Co-op on Fellside Road
- Groceries where the Chinese Take-away is and Hardware and Drapers opposite.
Comments
Thompson's red stamp stores was a shop that I worked in in the early 60s and was managed by a Mr Anderson and his wife. It was the first shop in Dunston to have what is now a self service. Other shops in Dunston to remember were Harry Harris where you got your comics and he had an American car, almost unheard of in those days. Can anyone remember the Chinese laundry which was next to a general dealers just round the corner from Victoria Street?
Posted by: david ross at January 4, 2008 9:03 AM
What about that old hardware shop that was down past the Excelsior Club towards the Tyne, it was on TV once for its rarity, does anyone remember the name of it ? The shop that is not the TV show.
Posted by: Ken at January 13, 2008 10:38 PM
Can anyone help with this query about the hardware shop in Dunston? I think Staiths Road is the name of the street.
Posted by: Whickham Web Wanderers at January 15, 2008 9:08 AM
Ken,
The shop was called Plewes and was next to the ship's chandlers.
Posted by: Whickham Web Wanderers at January 17, 2008 4:34 PM
Hi, cheers but Plewes's shop (derelict now) is still there and is before the Excel, see here..
http://www.dunston.fotopic.net/p35624752.html
the shop I mean was down past the excel on the same side just before the railway line,
see here http://www.dunston.fotopic.net/p10576376.html
its the bricked up shop on the right which is the shop I mean,
Posted by: ken at January 18, 2008 1:06 AM
ermm by the way what is the " ship's chandlers " that you mentioned ive never heard of it before ?
cheers Ken
Posted by: ken at January 18, 2008 1:20 AM
Ken, thanks for the information about Plewes shop. Looking at the photos you mentioned, on the second one there is a car standing outside what used to be the Ministry of Labour and National Service building until about 1957, well, next to that and nearer the camera is another building with the window bricked up, we think this was the ship's chandler's, it was certainly next to the Ministry offices. See our website, Photo Galleries, go to Unidentified Photographs. The last picture may be that shop, ie the chandler's.
Posted by: Whickham Web Wanderers at January 18, 2008 3:01 PM
When I was about 3 years old (1953 ) I lived in Victoria Street on the left hand side looking up towards the park. I remember playing with children from across the road. One day I was told that I could not go out to play with them as the father had killed them all, can anyone remember this?
Posted by: david ross at July 18, 2008 9:25 AM