Robert Whitfield Falconer was a Gosforth resident who lived in the area during the late Victorian and Edwardian period. Born… Read more Robert Whitfield Falconer: A Gosforth Story
Tag: Newcastle History
Pauline Johnson, Newcastle’s Forgotten Silent Movie Star
Discover the forgotten story of Newcastle-born Pauline Johnson, a silent-film star whose family roots can be traced through Newcastle records and the 1911 Census.
Coal Mines and Illicit Stills: The Hidden History of Newcastle
Smugglers’ Hole: The Hidden Coal Mine and Illicit Still Beneath Newcastle What if an ordinary-looking piece of Newcastle’s landscape once… Read more Coal Mines and Illicit Stills: The Hidden History of Newcastle
Memories of Gosforth High Street 1950 onwards (Part 3): everyday shops and daily life
This was Andersons, a general dealer and grocer. Here we could get a ‘cheap’ ice lolly after the cinema if money permitted for about 2d or 3d. These were called Jubblies, a watery orange ice lolly shaped like a pyramid about 3 – 4 inches in size and without a stick in a waxed cardboard covering. Tearing off one corner, you could squeeze the pyramid of ice up gradually as you enjoyed it. As you sucked away at it, the juice came out, leaving behind more of a pyramid of plain ice than a fruit lolly. They’re still available today for home freezing, but they are now only half their former size.
Gosforth High Street in the 1950s: shops, streets and everyday life.
In my infancy I can just recall this Baker’s shop as Masons the bakers from where we would get our bread. Thomas Mason and his wife worked here making their bread in the rear of the premises. Around 1951 this shop was to become the very first shop of Greggs the Bakers. John Gregg and his wife started up the well-known chain of bakers from here with just this one shop and a van round.
Gosforth High Street Shops History: Laws Stores and Christensen Watchmaker at Elmfield Road
The first in a series of beautifully evocative walks through memories of Gosforth High Street. Robert’s tiny sweet shop, Walls Ice Cream and Clarkson’s Dolls Hospital.