The best thing about growing up in Teesside was …..

Walking from Fairfield to Stockton, to Lesley Browns on a Saturday with my old school mates.

Then at aged 19-20 , going to Yarm on Sat nights, then on to the Kirk, followed by a long walk home, because of no taxis. :ROFLMAO:
And last but not least Bentley's night club.
 
Easterside_Red said:
Knowing it was entirely normal as a 15 year old to drink a bottle of Woodpecker cider behind the back of the shops on a Friday night.
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You were doing it wrong. You don't drink it behind the back of the shops. You send me into the offy because I'm tall and I can grow a tash and I have my older brother's ID and then I buy all of the booze and then we go to the park in Crooksbarn or the rugby stand at the cricket club and drink it there where we aren't bothering anyone. That's how you do it when you're fifteen. Everyone knows that.
 
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Freedom. After growing up on Ayresome Street and not really being allowed out to play, moving to Coulby Newham as a 9 year old in 1980 and discovering Fairy Dell on my doorstep. Amazing memories.
 
I grew up in East Cleveland, but the best thing as a kid was being taken to Boro matches, by either my folks, my older brother or my sister's. I preferred my Brother he would always take me in East End seats and there would be always something going on, this is the mid 70's.
As a kid I loved going into Boro on a night for shopping as my parents car came over the hill at Linthorpe and looking down onto Boro , it looked the most amazing place with all the bright lights as far as you could see, I was about 5 or 6 so that explains it.
Going for a lemon top as a kid in Redcar and then heading off to the big amusement park in Coatham( how can I forget it's name,)
Going out drinking in the Hydro in Redcar in my late teens, then heading off to Sharkey's, in fact the whole of Redcar was a great place for a night out in the 80's. My favourite was the Newbiggin but they fooked it by making it more modern.
And not Teesside but part of the legend of the area, Philmores in Saltburn being my club, and then getting the after club bus back to Redcar

+ What I remember as young teen ( early 80s) the whole of Teesside and village areas was rife with glue sniffing, I remember seeing lots of lads off their heads wherever you went, it was sad really.
 
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