anyone remember Bellinghams cafe ?
thechink1968:
anyone remember Bellinghams cafe ?
Was that the one up on the top road?
v7victor:
thechink1968:
anyone remember Bellinghams cafe ?Was that the one up on the top road?
Yes Vic, it was on City Rd just over the Ouseburn bridge past McPhee’s garage on the right. Itstarted off as a
good cafe and digs but turned into a proper doss house before it closed down
kevmac47:
v7victor:
thechink1968:
anyone remember Bellinghams cafe ?Was that the one up on the top road?
Yes Vic, it was on City Rd just over the Ouseburn bridge past McPhee’s garage on the right. Itstarted off as a
good cafe and digs but turned into a proper doss house before it closed down
Yeah i thought it was that one, i went in a couple of times for dinner the grub was’nt to bad but it always seemed busy at that time,iirc about late 60s.Vic.
Aye Bellinghams was a shop before it became the cafe It was advertised as The ■■■■ O The North Bellinghams, 1 St, Lawrence Rd.Bed & Breakfast was adertised on the cafe wall for 21bob in 1970, I had many dinner in there when waiting to load on the Quay,it was good & allways busy in those days Regards Larry
Larry
Not quite the quayside but can you remember the cattle markets either side of the river. Scotswood Road and just off the Gateshead end of the old Redheugh Bridge.
I remember the Scotswood Rd one there was a weighbridge there, just as you came around the corner where Smart & Cardella had there yard, I used to load at Churchhill Street Cold Store in the 50s. & used to dodge going past the weighbridge in case the W&Ms was there. Regards Larry.
tyneside:
Larry
Not quite the quayside but can you remember the cattle markets either side of the river. Scotswood Road and just off the Gateshead end of the old Redheugh Bridge.
loading docks either side of the street at the gateshead one one down the side street rest beside the wash. jeh
jeh:
tyneside:
Larry
Not quite the quayside but can you remember the cattle markets either side of the river. Scotswood Road and just off the Gateshead end of the old Redheugh Bridge.loading docks either side of the street at the gateshead one one down the side street rest beside the wash. jeh
I remember A bull escaping from the slaughterhouse behind Central station in the 60s I was working on the Northern buses at the time and was parked at that little bus station nearby (was it Marlborough Crescent? I could be wrong). Anyway ive never seen people get on a bus as quick when that bull came charging across the road. regards kevmac47
Aye Kev, it was Marlbrough Cres., remember the old Venture buses Daimlers with the fluid flywheel gear boxes, theres a one still about somewhere.
We used to load matches in cases of about 48 from a warehouse on the water side.Crane and sling from first floor,handball on to 4wheeler KM Bedford for Archbolds storage Gildersome.I remember the smell as they would tend to spontaneously combust if you were too rough stacking them.It was always Friday afternoon and normally raining so was in a hurry to load.How the lorry wasn’t burnt out is a mystery!!!
Was it Youngers Warehouse, I know they used to store matches, imported ones, I delivered some to Maynards at York a couple of times.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Was it Youngers Warehouse, I know they used to store matches, imported ones, I delivered some to Maynards at York a couple of times.
Nearly 40 years ago so can’t remember except it was right on the river side
Hi Lawrence
I can remember my dad did a spell driving on the venture buses their garage was an old wooden building at New Kyo. The Daimler bus you mentioned still being around used to be parked in a garage behind the Potters Wheel at Sunniside. the last time i saw it though was a couple of years ago.
Cheers
Mick
Slaughter house behind central station was Dodds & Bedford. Roughly where the Centre of Life is now. There was a gate right opposite the mart loading docks, next to Smart & Cadella so the cattle were just walked across the road in to the lairage. I can just remember when D & B also used to walk cattle bought at Gateshead across the Redheugh and into the slaughterhouse.
mickd1958:
Hi Lawrence
I can remember my dad did a spell driving on the venture buses their garage was an old wooden building at New Kyo. The Daimler bus you mentioned still being around used to be parked in a garage behind the Potters Wheel at Sunniside. the last time i saw it though was a couple of years ago.
Cheers
Mick
Bloody hell. Reading this whole thread has brought back some memories.
That bus was still there until a few years ago, but I haven’t seen it for a while so don’t know where it’s gone.
As for the cattle sheds at the Gateshead end, well my late Mum and my Father who’s still alive, moved from opposite the Redheugh social club on Morrison Street, to Rose Street in July 1973, and it must have been before then, as I grew up in the area as a lad, and used to stagger across the old Redheugh Bridge on a Friday night after getting out of the nightclubs at 3am, and walking home. There were no cattle sheds then, and this was about 1981 just before the old bridge closed. (I moved to Yorkshire in 1986, and got married later that year. We’ve just celebrated our 25th.)
I also remember the last ship to sail up to the coal staithes at Dunston before they stopped for whatever reason. I also remember 2 ships berthing there one day, and they came under the bridges 2 abreast as if they were in a race to get to the staithes first.
Bloody happy memories indeed. 
I remember the Bessie Surtees, & The Bobby Shaftoe coming up the Tyne to Dunston, but they were barge type vessels.
Venture buses Im sure they had a Garage at High Spen some years back, ?
Lawrence Dunbar:
Venture buses Im sure they had a Garage at High Spen some years back, ?
Yeah right, they were then bought out by go ahead northern, the routes were integrated into the Northerns network, the depot still there in High Spen, has s few small companies based there.
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welshphil:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Was it Youngers Warehouse, I know they used to store matches, imported ones, I delivered some to Maynards at York a couple of times.Nearly 40 years ago so can’t remember except it was right on the river side
Im sure it would have been Youngers they had an old friction hoist on the side oftheir warehouse called Broad Chare, its the Court House Now . Regards Larry