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Jesmond Memories Website Launch – 13th January 2017

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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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2010s

New Year, Old Memories

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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 […]

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Surinder and Sunita Rehan – Jesmond News

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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 […]

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1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Shopping, Work

Barbara Weightman – Memories of Clayton Road Shops

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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 […]

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1940s, 1950s, Childhood, Shopping

Fiona Clarke and Alison Cook – 50s & 60s Shopping in Jesmond, Part II

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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.

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1950s, 1960s, Childhood, Shopping

Fiona Clarke and Alison Cook – Jesmond Shopping in the 50s & 60s

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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 […]

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1950s, 1960s, Childhood, Shopping

Denise, Groom & Co.

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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 […]

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2010s, Shopping, Work

Catriona McGregor – Student life in Jesmond

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Catriona McGregor talks about student life in Jesmond in 2015 and 2016, and her love of socialising with her friends on Osborne Road.

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2010s, Osborne Road, Shopping, Social life, Students and the University

Vera Bolter – Saving Acorn Road from 1960s planners

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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 […]

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1960s, Acorn Road, Shopping

Vera Bolter – Shopping in Jesmond in the 50s & 60s

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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 […]

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1950s, 1960s, Acorn Road, Shopping

Steven Robson – Acorn Hardware

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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 […]

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2010s, Acorn Road, Shopping, Work

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Jesmond Memories

Jesmond Memories is an online archive of spoken word memories and impressions of Jesmond and the surrounding areas, to preserve Jesmond’s voices and memories for generations to come.

This project is funded with support from Tesco.

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