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Post by paul clough on Jul 19, 2005 14:23:03 GMT
Latest addition to Ushaw Moor Memories BLOG> === to join this blog....send email and ask to join... you will then be invited.=== Ushaw Moor Memoriesmike kipling
Location: ushaw moor
Ushaw Moor Memories:some one was talking about a policeman called JOCK, that was jock allen he did ride a green motorcycle and he was killed in an axxident while riding it. i was raised in ushaw moor, i was born 26/2/1946 and lived my early years at the top end of ushaw terrace. we then moved to bracken court number 4 we were one of the first to move into the new houses. i remember climing on the partly built houses as they built the rest of bracken court and oak ridge road. does anyone rember the little store at the bottom of bracken court. i rember two of the storemen that used to run it. first there was chris kitchener, who lived just through the cut. then there was hugh gradey who lived along oak ridge road. i still remember the che mist shop ar the bottom of station road on the righthand side. the general store in the same area run by defty,s then the proctors. chip shops we had a boat loads, betty,s,hoppers, lukes, babs, jacksons. i,ll close for now and come back on again at a later date with more blasts from the past hoppers
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Post by paul clough on Aug 15, 2005 18:24:03 GMT
=== to join this blog....send email and ask to join... you will then be invited.=== Ushaw Moor Memorieseshwood street said... There was a police officer killed in an accident whilst riding a green coloured BSA Bantam motorcycle. These were standard issue for most policeman who covered the large beats they had in the Ushaw Moor area at that time. I believe his name was Jock Allen and he covered the Broompark section. The section office for the Police at that time was situated in Durham Road (about No. 5) in Ushaw Moor. The section office was the front room of the Police Officer who lived in that house. It was later opened by Sid. Brown the Baker when he moved fron the bottom of Station Road into those premises.
The chemist mentioned in this article was Winters. It was an old fashioned chemists with lots of labelled drawers and large jars and bottles full of various coloured commodities. Mr Winter always wore a white coat and the smell in the shop was wonderful. In the winter he placed a parafin heater in the shop and this added to the smell. There were a number of shops in that area at that time, some already mentioned. Broughs, Browns the Bakers, the chemists and Deftys at the opposite end to Broughs. Across the road was Essie Watsons who sold papers, sweets and pop etc. then there was a small shop next to the Salvation Army Citadel but I cannot remember that being opened as a business premises very much. Next door was Wards shop, they sold childrens clothing. Bob Ward still lives in Ushaw Moor and it was his families business. Next door was Babs Thompsons fish and chip shop. I can only ever remember Babs working that business alone. The next shop half way up the bank was a closed premises which I believe was once a butchers shop and then Mary Valentes ice cream shop. Also situated at the bottom of Ushaw Moor was Neeshams Bottling Plant and at the rear of the Plant was a blacksmiths forge ran by a man named Cliff Brown who lived in Esh Winning. I can remember taking the shire horses (Prince and Daisy) from John Bells farm on the Esh Winning Road to be shoed there. There was also the Station Hotel recently demolished and the railway station and the Show Field was situated in that area also in front of the railway station. There was also a wonderful old fashioned Working Mens Club named the Albion Club which was known as the Bush. Four of my childhood friends Cyril and George Saunders lived in Middlefield Terrace behind and Bush and Gordon and Chris Hanson who lived on the Bottling Plant block of houses. Happy Days.
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