Mandale Meadow? Acklam Meadow?

Lemmy_kilmister

Lemmy_kilmister

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Not lived in Middlesbrough for over 20 years, but seen this while looking at google maps. Lived all my time in Middlesbrough on the Whinney Banks and I went to Stainsby, but I've never heard the fields around there be called by those names....Is this a new thing?
There was the Whinneys, but there were certainly no meadows that I knew of on the other side of Levick Crescent in the 70s and 80s.
 
Lemmy_kilmister said:
Not lived in Middlesbrough for over 20 years, but seen this while looking at google maps. Lived all my time in Middlesbrough on the Whinney Banks and I went to Stainsby, but I've never heard the fields around there be called by those names....Is this a new thing?
There was the Whinneys, but there were certainly no meadows that I knew of on the other side of Levick Crescent in the 70s and 80s.
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Its to sell new houses in bad areas.
 
Lemmy_kilmister said:
Not lived in Middlesbrough for over 20 years, but seen this while looking at google maps. Lived all my time in Middlesbrough on the Whinney Banks and I went to Stainsby, but I've never heard the fields around there be called by those names....Is this a new thing?
There was the Whinneys, but there were certainly no meadows that I knew of on the other side of Levick Crescent in the 70s and 80s.
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Agreed, it was just "the cross country fields" for those of us who went to Acklam Grange.
 
Lemmy_kilmister said:
Not lived in Middlesbrough for over 20 years, but seen this while looking at google maps. Lived all my time in Middlesbrough on the Whinney Banks and I went to Stainsby, but I've never heard the fields around there be called by those names....Is this a new thing?
There was the Whinneys, but there were certainly no meadows that I knew of on the other side of Levick Crescent in the 70s and 80s.
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The A19 being built on that line will have changed the whole geography round there - I remember the walk from Levick Crescent to Thornaby before the A19 and Teesside Park retail park and the view towards the beck flowing into the old river. I don't think I ever looked the other way but it was all meadows along the beck towards Stainsby.
 
They take a "field", build houses on 2/3rds of it and what is left gets its name changed into a "meadow" or "paddock" etc. It's done in name only mind, they don't change it literally as then they wouldn't be able to build on it in the future, due to wildlife like birds, bats and newts etc.
 
Foxys wood ... that cross country run was an absolute killer, you were knackered by the time you got to the fence at the end of the school field!

'the course' is long gone its all over grown i had a walk over that way during lockdown. There's now a gate at the back of Acklam Grange School so they must still do x-country runs im assuming

Going back to foxys wood wasnt there a myth there was a ghost called the grey lady?
 
Davey_C said:
Foxys wood ... that cross country run was an absolute killer, you were knackered by the time you got to the fence at the end of the school field!

'the course' is long gone its all over grown i had a walk over that way during lockdown. There's now a gate at the back of Acklam Grange School so they must still do x-country runs im assuming

Going back to foxys wood wasnt there a myth there was a ghost called the grey lady?
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Nah, the Gary Lady lived in Acklam Hall I don't think she ever visited Foxes (as we called it rather than Foxy's, although no idea why it's called either of them)

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If they have an associated school to the meadow you can bet your bottom dolar its called something Manor and its full of scrotes
 
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St Georges was my first senior school. We were the first year at the school (after previously sharing Marton Road in 4th year and Ayresome School until ours was open, which was interesting)! No school there now. Whatever happened to Diane Smith?
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Nah, the Gary Lady lived in Acklam Hall I don't think she ever visited Foxes (as we called it rather than Foxy's, although no idea why it's called either of them)

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I was close with foxys, i remember the part of the course where you had to jump over the beck close to the woods (there were no bridges back then)
 
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