Jesmond Memories Website Launch – 13th January 2017
The Jesmond Memories website was launched at Jesmond Library at 6pm on Friday 13th January 2017. An audience of familiar faces and library members, some of whom have already contributed to […]
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New Year, Old Memories
Welcome to the past! And, indeed, the present, and perhaps the future. This is Jesmond Memories, an audiovisual blog where Jesmond’s collective and individual memories are collected, curated, and preserved […]
Surinder and Sunita Rehan – Jesmond News
Jesmond Oh Jesmond!! by Surinder and Sunita Rehan, Jesmond News We fell in love and wanted to live in Jesmond since 1987 when our son started at Newcastle Preparatory […]
Barbara Weightman – Memories of Clayton Road Shops
Memories of Clayton Road Shops by Barbara Weightman I began living in Burdon Terrace at the age of nought, in 1947. When we were old enough to be […]
Fiona Clarke and Alison Cook – 50s & 60s Shopping in Jesmond, Part II
Sisters Fiona Clarke (left) and Alison Cook (right) reminisce about shopping in Jesmond as children, talking about the grocers, newsagents, chemists, fish shops, off licences and sweet shops they visited.
Fiona Clarke and Alison Cook – Jesmond Shopping in the 50s & 60s
The first instalment of sisters Fiona Clarke (left) and Alison Cook (right) describing their experiences shopping as children in Jesmond and Newcastle in the 1950s and 1960s, talking about shops […]
Denise, Groom & Co.
Denise from Groom & Co. on Clayton Road shares her experiences of working as a tailoress here in Jesmond, and her memories of training and working in Newcastle. (This recording […]
Catriona McGregor – Student life in Jesmond
Catriona McGregor talks about student life in Jesmond in 2015 and 2016, and her love of socialising with her friends on Osborne Road.
Vera Bolter – Saving Acorn Road from 1960s planners
Vera Bolter tells us about her involvement with the Acorn Road Community Organisation, who saved Acorn Road from demolition and development in the 1960s. Image: Demolition, Suzanne Hanlon. Used under […]
Vera Bolter – Shopping in Jesmond in the 50s & 60s
Vera Bolter talks about shopping in Jesmond in the 1950s and 1960s, remembering rationing, Acorn Road shops, and sending children out for groceries on their tricycles. Image: Acorn Road, Acorn Road […]
Steven Robson – Acorn Hardware
Steven Robson tells us how a childhood in his parents’ hardware led to him taking on Acorn Hardware in 2004, and gives us an insight into his working life on […]
