Old Postcard Pictures of Amble

[hollydog]

Here are some of the old pictures and postcards I have collected over the years. Hopefully some may be new to viewers

[Coquet]

Re: Cemetery Avenue - West Avenue pic

when were all the metal railings around Amble taken away? I know it was to salvage metal for munitions during the war, but which war - was it WW1 or WW2 ??

[janwhin]

Hollydog, I would love to see an old postcard of Marks Row cottages. My sisters have been looking for one for years without success.
They were born at Marks Bridge Farm, or small holding really, the cottage they lived in is still there but the farm is now bungalows. I think the small holder was called Rutherford.
Jack Anderson used to have an allotment, under Marks Bridge and close to Windmill Cottage with geese, always screetching as we went past. We lived in Lindisfarne Road from 1958 and Marks Row was still there, but pulled down a few years later.

[hollydog]

This is the closest I can find to Mark's Row, right era but unfortunately the multi-view with South Avenue is facing the wrong direction.My grandparents lived on the right in South Av.

[hollydog]

Here are some more - Amble in a nutshell is a gem!

[janwhin]

You're right, the view of South Avenue is the one we saw from our kitchen window, when washing the dishes. I also stood there patiently waiting for my friend who lived on South Avenue, so we could walk together to catch the school bus!

[hollydog]

More postcard pics - sorry about the baby on the last one!! wonder how popular that card was?

[janwhin]

That's quite a collection you have. The baby is interesting!

[hollydog]

Some more old photos. The most people I have seen on Bede st !!
and another of Amble station - apologies if you have already seen them. No idea what was happening with the flags and bunting on Bede st though

[Coquet]

Could that Bede Street one be the end of the Great War? French flags?

or Coronation of George V? (Cannot be Edward VII Coronation as it's post 1905)

[hollydog]

My great uncle Arthur Rowell (lived on Gordon st in the house that looks through the cut to Ladbroke st and the little shore) painting his wonderfully named coble "Faggott" - spelling allowing!! Note the concrete houses in the background - now the carpark?

[janwhin]

Would those concrete houses be the cement houses referred to on the census?

[Alan J.]

Yes that is them, I also remember Authur Rowell well, manager of the "Top Store", opposite Gino's chip shop and the "Dole" office. Arthur, seen painting the Faggott, put it into the water each summer on the "Little shore" where it was moored about half way along the pier. He did a bit line fishing in Alnmouth bay and in the winter pulled it up onto the grass again ready for next years maintenance.

[Alan J.]

Originally Posted by janwhin

You're right, the view of South Avenue is the one we saw from our kitchen window, when washing the dishes. I also stood there patiently waiting for my friend who lived on South Avenue, so we could walk together to catch the school bus!

There is a picture of these in the book "A story of Amble" by David Wilkinson and Paul G Morrison published in 1985. It says they were demolished in the 1960's, you wouldn't have been able to see South Ave from your kitchen window before this
I too have often wondered about their location as, looking now, there doesn't seem much room for them but I suppose the road must have been narrower then as they were forward from the line of Albert Street. I used to deliver groceries from Thompsons Stores to Bella Davison who lived in the house on the right as you enter Lindisfarne Road from the main road also to the Turnbull family who lived further along toward Radcliffe.

[janwhin]

Didn't need a school bus until 1961, before then my school was just over the garden wall.....unfortunately it was the outside facilities that were closest to the garden!

All the landscaped area at the top of Lindisfarne was that bit of Marks Row gardens. When they started demolishing, Craiggs began to park their buses on what became wasteland.

[Northern Light]

Originally Posted by hollydog

This is the closest I can find to Mark's Row, right era but unfortunately the multi-view with South Avenue is facing the wrong direction.My grandparents lived on the right in South Av.

The picture of cliffe house was taken before the coast guard lookout station was built. You can just about make out the wicker ball that was hoisted up the flag pole when there was enough water over the bar to allow the company steam boats to enter the harbour.

[bailbob]

Originally Posted by Coquet

Re: Cemetery Avenue - West Avenue pic

when were all the metal railings around Amble taken away? I know it was to salvage metal for munitions during the war, but which war - was it WW1 or WW2 ??

The railings were cut down by my Uncle Tom Bailes as foreman at the Amble Engineering Co. It was at the beginning of WW2. There was a short section remaining half way down on the right where there used to be a seat.

Does anybody remember all the Army lorries parked for months under the trees in preparation for DDay. They all vanished on the same night. I know because I used to play on and under them!

[Coquet]

Not old postcards but similar. These are 1932 aerial photos from the Britain from above website. I can put them here as long as I put a link back to the original page:

I can see South and Central Avenue Semis, Edwin Street School, The Bede Street Club (and Bede Street) Wellwood Street. No Lindisfarne Road yet?
I think Marks Row is there too?



link back: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw038809


and this one Gordon Street and Blackwood Street near the camera. Now is that the shipyard on the far side of the Braid? Big whatever it is.




link back: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw038811

[hollydog]

Top photo, enlarged shows Eastgarth av. east side being built with Amble House behind and look how big the church was on High st!
And the ridge and furrow? field is still there next to the railway, I thought it was more modern than 1932, interesting

[janwhin]

The Congregational church looks pretty big too. Marks Row is there but quite difficult to see and no Lindisfarne or Aidan Road (late 30s). What is the building where Clifton garage is now?