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Happy St George's Day Guest
Where were you born?
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Billy Fish
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Seaham was the world's biggest bottle manufacturing town in the 1800's iirc. Also used to be called little cornwall due to the number of tin miners who moved up to live there when the pits opened up.I only just got why the Blast beach is called the Blast beach when I looked at that old map of Seaham/Dawdon. The branch line running off to Dawdon Colliery is labelled BLASTFURNACE BRANCH. Googling around, there used to be a blast furnace in the 1800s. There was also a bottle works which is still on that map from 1920. We used to go collecting "jewels" off the beach which apparently are now called sea glass and worth a bomb
Are you a Leonards lad then Foggy?
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stephen cartwright
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SR 4
It is the general but the maternity area is now a multi storey car park, I think
Dmac1969
Winger
Aye it was almost 50 years ago so I guessed it might not be there now.
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stephen cartwright
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The whole hospital area has changed hugely over recent years
This multi storey is the best improvement on the site for years
I only just got why the Blast beach is called the Blast beach when I looked at that old map of Seaham/Dawdon. The branch line running off to Dawdon Colliery is labelled BLASTFURNACE BRANCH. Googling around, there used to be a blast furnace in the 1800s. There was also a bottle works which is still on that map from 1920. We used to go collecting "jewels" off the beach which apparently are now called sea glass and worth a bomb
It was the best place to collect them I loved them , sadly didn't keep them
Chesterladmackem
Midfield
Me too
hank williams
Striker
Little Thorpe baby factory
gizmoganzee
Striker
Druridge Avenue. Seaburn
roker beach
Striker
Upstairs bedroom, Sunderland, nine days late, ten and a half pounds . Can’t imagine them doing that nowadays.
. Can’t imagine them doing that nowadays.
Dawdon was the biggest coal mine in Europe as well at one point if you believe this - History
1 million tonnes a year all hand hewn in the 1920s. Employed 3,800 men
Abu Dhabi Red and White
Striker
On the same map but closer to the harbour itself.
Bladecat
Striker
Can you hear the Bow Bells from there?
Or that other Cockney test, could a black cab driver find it after doing The Knowledge (or is it one of those difficult to find places like Portland Place)
Sunderland General
Bob Fleming
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Another one churned out at Thorpe here
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becs
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I only just got why the Blast beach is called the Blast beach when I looked at that old map of Seaham/Dawdon. The branch line running off to Dawdon Colliery is labelled BLASTFURNACE BRANCH. Googling around, there used to be a blast furnace in the 1800s. There was also a bottle works which is still on that map from 1920. We used to go collecting "jewels" off the beach which apparently are now called sea glass and worth a bomb
I've seen small craft businesses using it. They go out and pick it up and use it for jewellery making and other ornament type stuff.
Upstairs bedroom, Sunderland, nine days late, ten and a half pounds
Your poor mam !
my ex mother in law reckoned her mother or it may have been her grandmother she was talking about ( I foget tbh ) had a baby that was a stone (14lbs, )
she reckoned it was a diabetic pregnancy before the days of inducing mothers
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