by Yvonne Young
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My parents, Ken and Doreen, on their wedding day in September 1951.
Me as a baby with Mam.
My Uncle Tom (far right) having a last drink in the Hydraulic Crane with two of his pals before they set off to serve in the army towards the end of World War Two.
Me in an early school photo, looking as if butter wouldn’t melt!
Women chatting at a public wash house in Newcastle in 1955.
© Kurt Hutton/Getty Images
This is from a street party held in Benwell in the 1950s before houses in the area began to be demolished, and folks moved away.
A concrete train that was built for us kids in the area. I’m to the left, looking up.
Courtesy of Peter Moore
A tank heading up Gloucester Street. Vickers used some streets in the area as test runs for heavy armoury, and people who lived nearby spoke of having to hold on to the china as everything rattled about!
Courtesy of the West Newcastle Picture History Collection
The Hydraulic Crane, one of the last pubs that remained on Scotswood Road. Most of the pubs on the road were named after industries, machinery or armaments made at Vickers.
Courtesy of the West Newcastle Picture History Collection
The belle of the sideshow causing a stir (and some shocked faces!) at the Hoppings Fair in 1955.
© NCJ Archive/Mirrorpix
Quayside bustling with market stalls selling all manner of items back in 1954. © Popperfoto/Getty Images
A woman with her child down Clara Street in the 1950s. The Metrocentre was later built on the site of Dunston Power Station seen across the river in Gateshead.
© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images
A fancy dress party in the area which was judged by Connie Lewcock.
Courtesy of Jimmy Grieves
At Butlins with Mam and Dad.
I had a great time at Butlins as a kid – here’s me on the carousel with Mam and Lorraine, a girl I met there, then with all the other children on the site
(I’m the little girl in the centre of the photo).
My friend Kath in the back lane of Maughan Street.
Me in the backyard of 22 Buddle Road, with my home-made skirt and home-cut wonky fringe next to Mam’s deckchair.
Me (far left) with a couple of pals outside one of the trendy shops in Handyside Arcade in Newcastle in 1968.
My Aunt Ellen (centre) outside the Osram Lamps factory on Team Valley, catching some sun at break time.
Taken after my friend’s wedding reception at the Sporting Arms in Scotswood, which overlooked the cooling towers of the power station across the River Tyne.
Me in my mother-in-law’s garden with my brother David in 1971, not long after he was born.
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