A rainy view of Mandale Road, Thornaby c1966. It that a saluting base set up ready for Mayors Sunday?
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A rainy view of Mandale Road, Thornaby c1966. It that a saluting base set up ready for Mayors Sunday?
Hi does any one recall the Warriner family, my brothers Alfred and Frank lived at number 49 with their Mother Ann prior to WWII and maybe a little longer.
There was an Alf Warriner worked as a driver at HW’s when I was there in 1953-62.
Bob, and a marriage licence also cost 7/6, my Daughter getting married Sunday has just paid out £750. The “0” bus did run every five minutes from Norton Green to North Ormesby Market Place, I did that run many times from home to my Grandparents in North Ormesby.
At the far end of Mandale Road before you turned down the bank to the Wilderness were some flats, I often visited the Fishburns who lived there until they moved to Roseworth and then never moved again.
Which King George do you mean “V” or “VI” I remember both having seen four monachs and a chance of a fifth maybe.
Frank, £750 for a marriage licence! Say no more! It should be free and courtesy of the State. May I wish your daughter and her fiance all our regards, a long life and bairns peeking though the window to see ‘if Grandad Frank outside, or coming up the road’. I knew a boy called Fishburn, but can’t recall ‘the flats you mention’. My mother bought Dr’s Danahar and McGrath old surgery when they moved to the Town Centre, both fine doctors and long time Thornaby favourites, my mother used to say Dr Danahar had married a member of the Guinness family.
Over the road from their Surgery was Mrs Round (the chemists) Mrs Round, was reputed to be the richest woman in Thornaby, this was heresay based on the fact her shop was always busy. A few doors down was a fruit shop whose name I could never pronounce, ‘Jaques’ the Fruiterers, who sold Fyffes bananas, another tongue twister. I even had troube saying Barnard Street (where I lived) it should be pronounced BAR- naard Street (to rhyme with yard) but I used to say BAR-nadd Street, which new teachers needed translating. As for the King, it was King George VI, born Albert Frederick Arthur George Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on December 14, 1895, in Norfolk, England, the second son of King George V and Victoria May, the Duchess of York (Mary of Teck).(k/as Bertie)
Thank you Bob, The Fishburns Jim and Vera lived in the tall buildings near the Pub on the same side as the picture, almost the last house before going down the bank past the Rope Works, all long gone.
They met at Imeson and Finches the Engineering factory that was still going strong up to the 80’s, Vera was a wartime machinist. The Son was Jeffrey although he would be a baby at the time.
The family came from Thornaby Green and were buried from the Church there that holds around a dozen people, how it has all changed.
The building of interest here is ” THORNABY POST OFFICE”, on the left 2 down, you bought a 2d (two-penny stamp) with a photo of the King, King George on it, or a Dog License for 7/6 (Seven shillings and sixpence) next to Thornaby Post Office was the WRVS office which was closed for years, in the window they still had fading posters urging people to save and conserve – in order to win the fight for peace. A Mrs Gott, of Georgiana Street, Thornaby, a lovely friendly woman, was the local WRVS officer, she could be seen striding through Thornaby ever so proudly in her pale green uniform. She had a daughter who would be 15? in 1950, who was never known by any other name than ‘Mrs Gotts daughter’. Another couple I recall were the well known 1948/58 period “blind couple”, whose sighted daughter aged 10 – so lovingly – used to assist them everywhere. If any child in Thornaby deserved a big medal it was her. Defintely my nomination for Thornaby’s citizen of the decade. Does anyone remember her?
Mrs Gott was called Lily. Her husband was Arthur and they moved from the Guisbrough area, possibly Lingdale to Thornaby. They had 6 children, Arthur, known as Clifford, Amy, Jean, Mavis, John and Ena. I think it would have been Ena who was the daughter with no name. She was born in 1935.
Thank you Bob for bringing back good memories of the Gott family we knew them very well , Ena was a good friend of my Sister Margaret so she was in and out of our house regularly . Although I must confess the pale green uniform escapes me, I just cannot remember that and that was well before elderly moments came in. Keep up the good memories makes one think. All the best .
Ah, the good old ‘O’ bus, it seemed to run every 5 minutes!
Its a rare thing… to see a photo of Mandale Road where all the buildings in view are still standing. They’re all boarded up and looking a bit worse for wear, but still standing.