Comments on: Stuart Thomas – Back When I Was Young…

By: NO NAME.

NO NAME. — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:23:34 +0000

IT’S SO SAD THAT TODAY IN 2023. TRIMDON COLLIERY, HAS BECOME A DUMPING GROUND.
MAKES ME CRY. TO THINK THAT LABOUR, TONY BLAIR, LIVED HERE. AND DID NOTHING FOR THIS AREA.
PACKED HIS BAGS, AND LEFT ( TRIMDON ) IN THE STATE IT IS TODAY. WHAT A TRAGEDY. WORKING PEOPLE, WHO WORKED SO HARD TO BRING US, PEOPLE OF THE 1950 AND 1960.WITH SOME PRIDE AND HOPE. HAVE TO WALK AROUND THIS AREA TODAY AND SEE WHAT A DISGRACFUL PLACE IT AS BECOME. NOTHING TO GIVE PRIDE TO THE CHILDREN OF THIS PLACE.( YESTERDAY ) WE CAN REMEMBER TO BE PROUD OF. BUT TODAY-WELL WHAT MORE CAN ONE SAY.???? LABOUR WANTS OUR VOTE. BUT THEY LOOK THE OTHER WAY, AT THE STATE OF (TRIMDON COLLIERY AND STATION )NOTHING HERE BUT ONE BIG MESS.SUCH A SHAME.NO TRUST IN ANY OF THESE TO IMPROVE THINGS IN THIS AREA.WE LIVE THE BEST WE CAN, WITH THE LOVE OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS. FOR ONE SEE’S WHAT IS AROUND US.I PRAY FOR A MIRACLE.FOR DURHAM COUNCIL DO NOTHING,TO GIVE THE PEOPLE,ANYTHING TO BE PROUD OF.THE CHILDREN OF TODAY, WHAT WILL THEY SAY IN THE FUTURE.OF TRIMDON COLLIERY AND STATION.ONE BIG DUMPING GROUND.SUCH A SHAME, FOR SOME PEOPLE STILL WORK VERY HARD, TO GIVE A GOOD HOME, BUT SO MUCH UNEMPLOYMENT,WITH NO FAITH TO MAKE THINGS BETTER.WHAT AS GONE SO WRONG.IN THIS LIFETIME.

By: if we could bring back these happy times

if we could bring back these happy times — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:37:44 +0000

READING THIS MADE ME REALLY HAPPY, FOR THEY REALLY WERE GOOD TIMES, HAS WELL- BEEN HARD TIMES. WE WERE BROUGHT UP WITH RESPECT FOR OTHERS. JUST LIKE US.AND TO HELP WHEN ONE COULD. REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU HAD. HELP ONE ANOTHER. NOT LIKE TODAY 2023, WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR. HOW TIMES CHANGE. NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU HAVE, DON’T FORGET WHERE YOU COME FROM. TO RESPECT OTHER’S. AND SHOW KINDNESS. COST’S NOTHING.
AND TO BE ABLE TO PLAY OUTSIDE, USE YOUR IMAGINATION,WITH SO LITTLE LIKE PLAYING WITH A TIN, FOR SKIP AND JUMP. AND CLIMBING THE PIT HEAPS, THINKING YOU WERE ON THE MOON.WHAT FUN. ALL GONE. NOW IT’S CAREFUL WHERE YOU GO. NOTHING FOR THE YOUNG ONES IN TRIMDON TODAY.IT IS NOW SINKING. PRIDE AS GONE. THE COUNCIL DO NOT CARE ABOUT THIS PLACE. JUST LOOK AROUND. WHAT A SHAME. OUR LOVED ONES GONE, WORKED SO HARD FOR US,AND WE TO WORKED HARD. BUT IT SEEMS,TO BE A DUMPING GROUND. MY HEART HURTS, TO SEE THIS.
WE could Dance in the street, and have great times going on trips to the seaside with the Working mans club outing. for then there was a real community.Great times. Good to remember.

By: David Watson

David Watson — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 21:47:59 +0000

It is the freedom we had as kids to go and explore around the villages that I remember well. I was from Trimdon Grange and even the pit heap was a playground. We flew kites from high up towards the top of the heap and we built bonfires in October and November behind the gardens along the front of the pit heap opposite Lillie Terrace.

The Foxcover was a great place to climb trees and search for birds nests. The Kitty Dales was the place for picking blackberries and rose-hips . I remember the Grange chemist and the school would pay us 4pence a pound for the hips and we sold blackberries to our neighbours to make a few bob.

If you had plenty of time, you walked as far as Gamside quarries or Wingate quarries and there was also a small quarry next to the Kitty Dales that was just another playground.

You were free to roam around farmers fields with a catapult or a bow and arrows and the school summer holidays seem to last for months. No one objected to us playing football in the school field opposite Holmeside Terrace and when winter came, sledging down our back street was a favourite pastime. No traffic to worry about.

Happy days. We were lucky kids.
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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 20:13:49 +0000

Yes this were toilets outside but not like a toilet like we have now. It was a pretty scary place
Where it was just a wooden seat with a whole in the middle and the only toilet paper was small squares of newspaper

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 20:09:34 +0000

It made fantastic reading and certainly brought memories back. When I lived in Coffee Pot there was no running tap water in the house so I had to go to the top of the street to fill a bucket and of course ended up with more water on me than in the bucket but at least it was lighter to carry!

When my Dad had an accident and he could not get coal from the Pit I used to cry with the cold so we would walk to the old Pit heap behind Coffee Pot and pick roundies for the fire. He walked with 2 crutches and would point out Which were the best ones for me to put in the bucket