Why I you Buggar man
Am I right
Next time I have to go to Blyth I will try to remember my camera
You were right
Ballest Hill
Yes we used to come out of the back door and down some wooden steps over a yard to the dairy . Mind you I'm going back about 60 odd years
we had to get a bus from Morpeth through by was it sheep wash bank or would it be the bank at Beddlington
not sure
I know I was always sick in the bus and my mother used to give me wrong
No sympathy in those days
Elizabeth
I'm remembering a bit more about this, especially the wooden steps you talk about but it's all very vague in my mind. I used to work in that area and I kind of remember how there were big wooden steps leading up from the road that went down to the Low Ferry. I think the steps went up to Hanratty's Ballast Hill Scrapyard? As I said, I'm sure that area was all cleared out in the early 60s. Blyth was "King Coal" in those days and they did whatever was needed to administer the coal traffic. The new railway/coal shipping office block built up on Ballast Hill overlooked the mid section of the river and was a quite different set-up to the old building which stood almost on the river bank just by 1 & 2 staithes on the South Side. Mind you, the same bloke ***** ******* moved into the new offices and he was just as big a b*****d as he was in his old office. He must have had the very worst temper in Northumberland!
On about being sick in the bus, Elizabeth, while the bus travel never bothered me, my sister was a real martyr to it. You could literally see her turning green at some stage in the journey. Then, if I remember correctly, my Mam would tell the conductress that my sister was going to be sick, the conductress would ring the bell, the bus would pull in wherever we were, and Mam would half carry my sister out to the roadside where she could have a good spew!
Imagine that nowadays! They's just hoy you off the bus!
She travels OK now in cars and that and I hope you've got over travel sickness too.
