PRIMAUGUET

[tynebuoy]

Yes, yes, its true, hard to believe i know. And we now have something called electricity too, but these outside netties still play havoc with your bum and other bits in this weather.

[magoonigal]

Aye, and the print comes off the "Shields Gazette" something rotton!

Its your own fault for sending all those pictures in.....

[tynebuoy]

Trouble is it's not as strong as it used to be, pooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[northeast]

We used the Radio Times when I was a lad, but then we always were upmarket in Redcar ....

[tynebuoy]

What about poor old Wikham, nobody could read so no need for paper, just as well they kept their fingernails short.

[Whickham]

Poor Old Whickham was poor Young West Hartlepool in those days. I can't begin to describe the deprivations that we had to go through.

[magoonigal]

Would that be "British West Hartlepool" ?

My Great Gran came from West Hartlepool, Mary Ann Minter nee Pounder.

[northeast]

Maybe Old Whickham was bombarded by the Kaiser's Navy hence his total loss of sense of time ever since .....
anyway we must not be rude about that fair town, we have important and valued members posting from there!

Pounder, now there's a name, knew a Norman P. from Hartlepool who rose through management ranks in BTDB/ABP. Could be distant relation of Paul.

[Whickham]

The Pounder name rings a bell, but since that shell came through the outside lav things have been a bit hazy.

[tynebuoy]

"Things have been a bit hazy" he says. Man, I had "Purple Haze" years before Jimmy, purple haze with little green squiggly things and big orange squidgy bits, and that's before the sherry.