my river tyne

[Doc Vernon]

What!! Gone up again cappy! Thought it was Three and Sixpence! LOL
Or is the extra Ticky for the Tiki Hoc Bar!

[j.sabourn]

#7 Keith re your name , although spelt slightly different , means bosuns mate in the land of the Indian subcontinent. The next step up would be Serang. Would imagine you have been told this many times. If among a bunch of seamen with their sense of nick names in time this would probably turn into Gunga Din . The same as anyone with the surname of Jones usually finished up being called Locker, and Clark being Nobby. Just two examples of many. In your case this would have given you the authority to wear a turban. Also to carry Bombay Bashers in your suitcase. Wonderful things surnames I’m still hoping that someone recognises mine as belonging to the Norwegian passenger liners the Sabourne Line. A few extra bob would come in handy for Xmas . Egdum kalas .jildy jildy, no doubt Cappy will try and subvert that to more outrageous meanings . Cheers JS.

[happy daze john in oz]

Could not view, not allowed down here.
But no matter, I have memories of that part of the world from my childhood days .

Newcastle and Sunderland where all the family came from.

My GGF was a riveter in the Wear side ship building docks.
From his home as a young lad I could look along the road and see the ships being built, sadly no more and the area now built up so the view is gone.

But happy time spent up there with some of the greatest people you could ever wish to meet, friendly to a level I have never seen any where else apart from Ireland.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Cappy owes me three and sixpence that I payed to watch, but they said it would be too intelligent for Aussie watchers.
I loved my time on the North East coast, but have bitter memories after being shanghaied on the British Builder in Newcastle, and for twelve months, the old crew of Geordies told me in my cups that she was a good feeder, and only a short trip, well! twelve months isn't that long.
Des

[Bill Morrison]

#14. John S. It wasn't built on the Tyne but there are similarities to your surname. Called after the Battle of Sobraon 1846 Anglo-Sikh war. If you ever wished to go to sea on a sailing ship this was the one.

[j.sabourn]

#15 I got it John, WA must be different , or Jehova must have wanted me to see. Cheers JS.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Bill.
That was always my boyhood dream, unfortunately I lived in the wrong era. Still I had most of my dream come true.
Des

[Trevor Bodiam]

I too had relatives in Newcastle where my mother came from. We used to make the annual trek from Dover, and those days it was coach to Victoria, then overnight to Newcastle. No motorways then !!
My maternal grandparents lived somewhere very near to the Maynards factory or warehouse, i'm unsure which, that mum worked in when a young girl.
My Gran's house back garden was extremely steep and down the bottom of the "canyon" there was a very small river. Would that have been the tyne? and anybody know what this suburb was?
Great memories of going down to the quayside and listening to all the sales "pitches" trying to sell you bargains.
"not 3 shillings! not even 2shillings and sixpence, but just for today - 2 shillings Ladies and Gentlemen.
Who wants a bargain? "
They had great patter, and could sell anything. Very happy memories.

[j.sabourn]

That must have been up in the upper reaches Trevor by your description , didn’t meet the lampton worm ( pronounced warm ) when there ? then, he had a git big hed and grit big goggly eyes , not to be confused with google once seen never forgotten. Some of them gypsy type folk could sell bikinis to the eskimos. Came mostly from South Shiely , and you know who belongs there . Cheers JS .

[John Arton]

Trevor
Think your grandparents lived in ouseburn from your description'
Rgds
J.A.