A view of the Cricketers Arms, Portrack Lane c1990s
Photograph courtesy of Terry Westwood.
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A view of the Cricketers Arms, Portrack Lane c1990s
Photograph courtesy of Terry Westwood.
When I worked at BTP Central Labs in the mid sixties a group of us used to go there every lunchtime for a pint. The Cricketers lunches were to die for. I think the owner and her husband were called May and Peter, though I may be wrong, and their daughter was definitely called Margaret.
This was our local for a few years late sixties/early seventies. Only names I remember are Dave Young and his brother Alan.
Always a decent pint in the Cricketers. The landlord when I went in was a chap called Peter Turner who I think worked for quite a while at Hills Door company.
Correct Martin. I worked near to where Peter, he was a woodwork machinist working in the next shop to me. It was called Factory 6 which was split into 2 shops, the joinery one that I was in and the other side housing all the machinery. At one time he did move over to Australia then coming back to work in Hills.
Bob, Is this the Peter Turner who played in goal for Stockton Shamrocks & can be seen on this web-site in a Newtown School team photo, his father Lenny worked in Harkers Engineering close by to the Cricketers Arms.
I wouldn’t know about his sporting interests or which school he went to other than when he had the Cricketers he did play golf with a chap called Dave French. He also was a barman in the Brown Jug at one time before the Cricketers.
On further reflection I think Peter may also have had the Wild Ox..
Shame the way you see it now. I used to go in there when May was the Landlady. Does anyone remember her?
Yes, May was the landlady when we used to go in there in the late 70s. We worked in the steel stockholding place down the black path which was the old Head Wrightson place. After a Saturday mornings overtime it was the first pub we came to and we couldn’t exactly walk past it without calling in could we.
Yes Bob I remember her, her full name was May Jarnell and the pub sold OBJ which was o be joyful beer, and at one time she owned a corner shop in the buildings on the corner of Henry St.
I would have been going in there in 1970-72. A good friend of mine and his wife were regulars in there, although they lived in Norton Portrack was where he was brought up, his name was Davie Good. All he ever drank was Baileys Bristol Cream sherry.
My late mother used to work at the ICI packing sheds just over from Newport Bridge and all the crew would meet there from 6-2 shift so would meet her there have a drink and go shopping on way back home, My mother (Maureen Hawke) and May would often have a chat xx