Carl Williams:
tyneside:
Few from the North East. Not my pictures.Hi Tyneside, Great photos bring back so many memories.
Can you remember buses having to have the back wheels chocked at the old bus station, as the handbrakes sometimes wouldn’t hold. I can remember going to Bridges for auto electrical parts and carboys of distilled water (To top up batteries)later changed name to Gaedor and Thompson & Brown Bros who were both based near the bus station.
Hope you’re keeping well
Carl
Hi Carl and nice to hear from you
I can remember the chocks, they were properly shaped heavy wood in a frame with a waist height handle, think it was the conductors job to put them in place.
IIRC Gaedor was at the bottom of Worswick St. a relation of mine served his Auto Electrical apprenticeship there.
Thompson Brown was just under the railway bridge roughly where the Manors multi storey car park is now. As an 8/9 year old that place was like an Aladdins cave. Got my first “proper bike” there and also my first transistor radio, in fact I think they were wholesalers for almost anything !!!
Tyneside