Nanny Beach, I live in an area which was the culmination of the old green lanes that had been in use for millennia, The Romans built canals and mills to grind the corn from what they called the bread basket of the North. Later Hartlepool Stockton and the Port of Yarm built on a small village in bogland that became Middlesbrough shipped out Coal Iron Lead from the Dales and grains meat and fowl from the vales of Durham and York. The rivers were the main roads when there were no roads and the North Sea was the M1 of its day, everything went by ship as we supplied London and the South, even Big Ben's bell was cast in my Village of Norton, it was shipped to London and the clack handed men transporting it to Big Ben cracked it, so it had to be recast.
We lads and lasses walked those lanes with our jam sandwiches and bottles of water we would picnic in the fields or woods and knew every tree by name could spot birds by their call and could handle animals and wild life because we came from a farming community. I live on one of those old lanes and just up the road are others which were once green lanes and would still be recognised by the old drovers. People get the impression of the cold smoky North east as a place of degradation how wrong they are, Stockton on the Tees is a green and lovely place to live, at the moment we have soft warm rain although it is getting brighter by the minute.
Please do not tell anyone we do not want a mad rush from the South. I enjoyed the run out yesterday and we did see some squirrels under the Oak Trees on the lane, they seem to know they are safe.
What a lovely picture you paint of a bygone era that has been enjoyed by generations and you have such lovely memories Frank of your time as a youngster and now are content to live in the familiar surroundings.
I am also lucky enough to live just a short walk from where I was born and raised and have fond memories of playing in the fields with my siblings, making dens in the hedges, collecting "creatures" in jam jars and long sunny days playing on the beach, making dams in the sand and rock pooling. Happy days. I am pleased that my daughters were able to do most of the same although by the time they arrived I could drive and we explored further afield. However it is good to holiday and look at the bigger picture. Although as they say there is no place like home.
Weather here is damp, misty, calm and mild with the promise of sunshine before dusk.
Hello , weather not to bad drove from Lincoln to Harwich , mini cruise to Belgium ?? Tomorrow
Reminiscing , I come from Birmingham and although we had a big garden and the roads where tree lined but there where factories , house‘s as far as you could see even with Binoculars but it was good
Now I live in a semi rural Village which has doubled in size in 26 years , urbanisation is creeping in but still a very nice place to live
Guernsey Donkey, we lived minutes away from four lovely beaches, Seaton Carew, Redcar, Marske, and Saltburn, collecting things from rock pools under the Huntcliffe Saltburn one eye on the tide which came in quickly and you were trapped, it still happens to people. Whitby was an hour away though we had a car, not many did and we had relatives at Goathland Egton and Grosmont in the Hills. Wonderful memories and we made sure our children had the same, they still come every weekend and still talk about it.
GWRS Enjoy your trip I had many North Sea Crossings from Harwich and Hull thanks to the army, my Pal in the Navy said I had more sea time than he did.
Stockton, there is a song about it, "it's a lovely day today" so full of porridge maple syrup and blue berries i will have a nice shower and enjoy the garden though it may well be more sit and look than do.
A mild day here, sunshine and breeze but still enjoyable outside "doing" rather than sitting. Clouding up now, and more rain forecast, but for today all was well outside.
Frank, we spent happy holidays in Yorkshire, and spent one at Grosmount in a British Rail Camping coach on a side railing off the station (other coaches in Yorkshire and Derby also for various holidays) and also travelled to Whitby and other seaside destinations (as if we didn't have enough of the beach here in Guernsey). The coast and countryside are beautiful up there, if a tad cooler than it is here. Happy holidays with warm, friendly people.
Stockton-on-Tees, another sunny morning, a bit cool so just slip a ganzy on, an old saying up in these parts "aall jest be gitten me ganzy then" of course the speech police we at times see on here will not like or even understand that. Reading an item of news yesterday "Is the UK greener than we think". This part most definitely is, promptly swamped with green posts saying farm land moor and even lakes were spoilt green concrete, "WHAT" or I should say what do they really want, they have it all but would deny their children better. It takes all sorts as they say.
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palaisglide, that sounds so poetic!!!
Nanny Beach, I live in an area which was the culmination of the old green lanes that had been in use for millennia, The Romans built canals and mills to grind the corn from what they called the bread basket of the North. Later Hartlepool Stockton and the Port of Yarm built on a small village in bogland that became Middlesbrough shipped out Coal Iron Lead from the Dales and grains meat and fowl from the vales of Durham and York. The rivers were the main roads when there were no roads and the North Sea was the M1 of its day, everything went by ship as we supplied London and the South, even Big Ben's bell was cast in my Village of Norton, it was shipped to London and the clack handed men transporting it to Big Ben cracked it, so it had to be recast.
We lads and lasses walked those lanes with our jam sandwiches and bottles of water we would picnic in the fields or woods and knew every tree by name could spot birds by their call and could handle animals and wild life because we came from a farming community. I live on one of those old lanes and just up the road are others which were once green lanes and would still be recognised by the old drovers. People get the impression of the cold smoky North east as a place of degradation how wrong they are, Stockton on the Tees is a green and lovely place to live, at the moment we have soft warm rain although it is getting brighter by the minute.
Please do not tell anyone we do not want a mad rush from the South. I enjoyed the run out yesterday and we did see some squirrels under the Oak Trees on the lane, they seem to know they are safe.
Frank.
What a lovely picture you paint of a bygone era that has been enjoyed by generations and you have such lovely memories Frank of your time as a youngster and now are content to live in the familiar surroundings.
I am also lucky enough to live just a short walk from where I was born and raised and have fond memories of playing in the fields with my siblings, making dens in the hedges, collecting "creatures" in jam jars and long sunny days playing on the beach, making dams in the sand and rock pooling. Happy days. I am pleased that my daughters were able to do most of the same although by the time they arrived I could drive and we explored further afield. However it is good to holiday and look at the bigger picture. Although as they say there is no place like home.
Weather here is damp, misty, calm and mild with the promise of sunshine before dusk.
Dry, sunny and cold.
Same here. Well, it's 12C out of the wind but flipping chilly in it.
Hello , weather not to bad drove from Lincoln to Harwich , mini cruise to Belgium ?? Tomorrow
Reminiscing , I come from Birmingham and although we had a big garden and the roads where tree lined but there where factories , house‘s as far as you could see even with Binoculars but it was good
Now I live in a semi rural Village which has doubled in size in 26 years , urbanisation is creeping in but still a very nice place to live
Very few places stay the same
Guernsey Donkey, we lived minutes away from four lovely beaches, Seaton Carew, Redcar, Marske, and Saltburn, collecting things from rock pools under the Huntcliffe Saltburn one eye on the tide which came in quickly and you were trapped, it still happens to people. Whitby was an hour away though we had a car, not many did and we had relatives at Goathland Egton and Grosmont in the Hills. Wonderful memories and we made sure our children had the same, they still come every weekend and still talk about it.
GWRS Enjoy your trip I had many North Sea Crossings from Harwich and Hull thanks to the army, my Pal in the Navy said I had more sea time than he did.
Stockton, there is a song about it, "it's a lovely day today" so full of porridge maple syrup and blue berries i will have a nice shower and enjoy the garden though it may well be more sit and look than do.
Frank.
Wet start but drying now sun has just peeked from behind clouds.
A mild day here, sunshine and breeze but still enjoyable outside "doing" rather than sitting. Clouding up now, and more rain forecast, but for today all was well outside.
Frank, we spent happy holidays in Yorkshire, and spent one at Grosmount in a British Rail Camping coach on a side railing off the station (other coaches in Yorkshire and Derby also for various holidays) and also travelled to Whitby and other seaside destinations (as if we didn't have enough of the beach here in Guernsey). The coast and countryside are beautiful up there, if a tad cooler than it is here. Happy holidays with warm, friendly people.
Stockton-on-Tees, another sunny morning, a bit cool so just slip a ganzy on, an old saying up in these parts "aall jest be gitten me ganzy then" of course the speech police we at times see on here will not like or even understand that. Reading an item of news yesterday "Is the UK greener than we think". This part most definitely is, promptly swamped with green posts saying farm land moor and even lakes were spoilt green concrete, "WHAT" or I should say what do they really want, they have it all but would deny their children better. It takes all sorts as they say.
Frank.