The best thing about growing up in Teesside was …..
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tonybiriyani
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*tan*I saw a kid getting a croggy the other day and was telling the wife about three of us on a bike. We all had bikes but that would have taken the fun out of it.
I was sat on the handle bars, Spanna stood up pedalling and Micky Calhan sat on the seat.
That was the summer I left school and one of the happiest and carefree times of my life.
Skiptonboro
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Scraggy bagging in the guisborough hills in the snow, discovering BMX bikes in the very early 80s at the shale heaps up there too. Not from Teesside but had family up there - always great visits as a kid.
timetoretire
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Being brought up in a working class town where family and neighbours mattered. People helped each other and a real sense of community existed quite naturally.
Rofesleg
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Theft and ShrubberyBack garden creeping - some of my happiest memories
gregorgregorovich
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I was up around Stanhope earlier this month, will have to try and push on to Nenthead and Alston in the next few weeks. Must have been hot to need 3 bottles roofie.
r00fie1
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February 2017. Coast to Coast. 2nd section: Langwathby to Stanhope via Alston. Lots of climbing. Cold outside. Hot inside.
Next day was Stanhope to Tynemouth via Consett an Gateshead.bungydinsdale
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It provided the impetus to leave
swordtrombonefish
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Very frequent family parties, lots of the Irish in them, where singing and tales of the old world would be promiinent. Family Early visits (especially around Christmas) to Smarts or Romer Parrish, also to McKenna & Brown with my dad who seemed to swap something out of his Hi-Fi system on a monthly basis.
Later, football, the bustling high street with very few empty shops, the big stores, Tower House with the fantastic vacuum pump system for money, Binns with the stairway to heaven and Debenhams with a beautiful girl in perfumery that I tried and failed to court. The pubs in Eston, Normanby and then The Masham & Shakespeare that we always ended up in before Billy Paul's and The Madison. Later the Kirk that became my go to scene, with the odd visits to Yarm and then Macmillans or The Mall.
Whenever I visit the Boro now it seems to pale in comparisn with those memories and I feel it deep down, I am certain we have lost something as a community with social media etc.
Later, football, the bustling high street with very few empty shops, the big stores, Tower House with the fantastic vacuum pump system for money, Binns with the stairway to heaven and Debenhams with a beautiful girl in perfumery that I tried and failed to court. The pubs in Eston, Normanby and then The Masham & Shakespeare that we always ended up in before Billy Paul's and The Madison. Later the Kirk that became my go to scene, with the odd visits to Yarm and then Macmillans or The Mall.
Whenever I visit the Boro now it seems to pale in comparisn with those memories and I feel it deep down, I am certain we have lost something as a community with social media etc.
sweet_left_foot
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and Centrefolds
London_Boro
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Bank Holiday Mondays at The Malt Shovel aged 17/18. Bands on all day, even got to play a couple of them with our band. Great music, great mates, great memories that'll last a lifetime.
boroboy6872
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Winkling, South Gare to Saltburn beach, Lemontops and Coke floats from Pacittos, Locke Park, The Moors, The Boro, Dormo, being allowed to play footy pretty much anywhere you like on any playing field.
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Juninhoburger
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Being able to actually eat the fish caught at the South Gare without worrying about s***ing yourself inside out hours later
onenilawayfromhome
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The bus ride from Billingham to Middlesbrough through the ICI works.
The magnificent Newport Bridge. Time stood still as you watched the roadway lift towards the sky. Never seemed quite so dramatic coming back from Middlesbrough.
Ayresome Park on a night match in the 60s. The red of the Boro, the vivid green of the pitch and most opponents seemed to be in yellow and blue. We seemed to play Mansfield and Torquay every other week.
Old Hamiltons music shop. Records down stairs with the guitars up the old staircase.
Billingham town centre with the spiral ramp to the upper shops
Stockton market, particularly late winters afternoons when they had the old pressurised lamps lighting the stalls. The first stall past the enclosed market was usually taken by the fish wives from Staithes who dressed with the old blue bonnets
The magnificent Newport Bridge. Time stood still as you watched the roadway lift towards the sky. Never seemed quite so dramatic coming back from Middlesbrough.
Ayresome Park on a night match in the 60s. The red of the Boro, the vivid green of the pitch and most opponents seemed to be in yellow and blue. We seemed to play Mansfield and Torquay every other week.
Old Hamiltons music shop. Records down stairs with the guitars up the old staircase.
Billingham town centre with the spiral ramp to the upper shops
Stockton market, particularly late winters afternoons when they had the old pressurised lamps lighting the stalls. The first stall past the enclosed market was usually taken by the fish wives from Staithes who dressed with the old blue bonnets
