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Dear Readers
We are sourcing what we can from the Library’s holdings and have added 1940-1941, 1943-1950 in the last 24 hours.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/id/staffordshire-sentinel
Thank you all for your continued interest in this title, and Happy Reading!
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I am not sure what everyone is on about, really. My memories of Teesside are from the late 50s and 60s. I remember Redcar beach, which was mostly filthy and smelly and covered in jellyfish, but still had donkeys on it in the summer. I remember Marske (pronounced Mask, not Marske, for some reason) which had a lovely beach, and also had a permanent funfair thing, and had lovely woods nearby (Coatham, I think?) where we used to go and pretend to be whatever we wanted. I remember pretending to smoke with my friends in a hut in those woods.
I remember going on the bus to Eston baths to swim, because the pool there was much better than the one in Redcar which was cold and scuzzy and falling down. I remember we went to Billingham ice rink, too, although I never managed to learn how to skate.
My memories are mostly happy.
I also remember the smells. It was quite common to have chemical smells from ICI or one of the other chemical or iron works in the area. Sometimes, a siren would sound, and we all had to stay indoors because there had been a chemical spill and the air was too polluted for us to play outside. We never got a day off school for that, though.
My school days were mostly happy - I went to Zetland primary school and I was in the choir, and we kept winning things. We went to Scarborough and Whitby and York for school choir events. I was also in the church choir, of the church next door, St Peters, so some of the choir events I can remember were probably them, rather than the school. I couldn't actually sing, and I can't now. I have no idea why they kept me in the choir. But I loved it
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Can't see Huntbach's on here. It looked anachronistic in 1969 - a warren of corridors and split levels and staircases - surely it's not still there?
I knew a Saturday girl in Webberley's. She told me a woman had come in one day and asked for 3 feet 6 of books (to fill a new book-shelf). Sounds dubious, but the story was a good one at the time.
And in the Lewis's car park I am certain (in the late 60s) there were still one or two crush barriers from the terracing when Vale played there before they moved up to Burslem. Is that possible?
Hayden's - "Hayden's Have It". That was their extremely snappy strapline, I think.
SMC was in that strange little arcade.
There used to be an excellent record shop where I used to spend many a happy hour. Run by an old hippy. Can't remember the name, but about 50 yds from where Dale's sports would have been