A Bike Ride with Dad Round the Sights of Old Grangetown ; Remembering Grangetown

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DEREK OUTHWAITE recalls a few personal memories and more recent reflections on 'dear old Grangetown', and some of its former landmarks.

He says that these thoughts and memories were first initiated via a memorable "cross-bar bike ride" through Grangetown and beyond which he took with his father about 75 years ago - "just before I commenced my full-time schooling..."

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A Bike Ride with Dad Round the Sights of Old Grangetown ; Remembering Grangetown

Of course much has changed in this immediate district/area of Grangetown during these past 40 or so plus years since the building of the New Tees Dock, and the major heavy traffic routes, to and from it.

This is his story:

IN those very early years of the 1930's my dad, Wilfred (Billy) Outhwaite, worked at the North Eastern Slag Tip, which was near the mouth of the River Tees.

His workplace was just a few miles past Low Lackenby, which in those days was a small community of two dozen or so families living in a tiny hamlet, with one house-shop and a small church....

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