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Chester-le-Street

I used to live in Edmondsley. Jubilee Close was built in the late 70s (as the name would suggest) to house the families from down the road when the estate near Blackhouse and The Charlaw Inn was knocked down after it was declared a slum. I don't remember anything about there being a crowd at the window, but I left Edmondsley in 1986 so it could have happened after then.

There were some right nutcases who lived there. Once in the middle of the night there was one of the women who lived there banging on our door. My old man finally went down to answer and she was there in her PJs with an unlit tab in her mouth and she asked "Eeeee have you gotta light?"
Remember a daft lad from school from Edmonsley, Ray Patterson....had a couple of sisters, little hatd nut him.
 

Is the Garden Farm still in existence? I remember when they had a disco in there and it was packed weekends.
CLS has never been a place I would drink in on a regular basis. Was in the spoons earlier this month for an afternoon drink. Met up with a few mates and I really enjoyed it. The Wicket is a better than average pub with decent beer. I had a lift home arranged so had to leave before the pub crawl down the bank started. But CLS seems a pretty good place for a piss up.
 
Is the Garden Farm still in existence? I remember when they had a disco in there and it was packed weekends.
CLS has never been a place I would drink in on a regular basis. Was in the spoons earlier this month for an afternoon drink. Met up with a few mates and I really enjoyed it. The Wicket is a better than average pub with decent beer. I had a lift home arranged so had to leave before the pub crawl down the bank started. But CLS seems a pretty good place for a piss up.
Yeah the farm is still there, I’m sure the disco bit was called Whispers but I may be wrong
 
Thursday nights at the Grden Farm was the main night back in the late 80's, people used to come from all over and always heaving. Had my wedding night-time do there back in 1990 and its hardly changed since.
 
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