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Post by bigcashprizes on Apr 10, 2019 18:23:00 GMT
That’s Berryhill wmc mate My parents are geordies and mum from Consett and dad (rip ) was from Stanley and we too are Berryhill Small world Ubberley wmc Berryhill was other side of Dividy rd near to the garage think it was Hall Hill Drive. I stand corrected it was Berryhill on Calvary 👍, which club was off Hallhill Drive then? My Nan and Grandad (on my Mum’s side) lived on Hall Hill Drive. I spent loads of my childhood (in the 80s and 90s) there. Egg man used to come Satdee mornings - leave a lobby bowl on the step with 50p in it! There was a shop van that came and sold Highland Toffee. Chip van used to park at the top of the street, just at the start of the Dividy slip road. They were right greasy chips. Ice cream van played ‘Lili Marlene’ and was driven by that old Italian bloke - you wanta ninety nineah?! Spent many many hours in The Legion with me Grandad playing pool and guzzling pop and crisps on a Friday night. Then it became Renegades western club and they used to have re-enactments of Wild West shootouts on the green/car park on Sunday afternoons. We used to stand at the back door after dinner and watch all the weirdos dressed in ten gallon hats and chaps firing cap guns at each other! Speaking of the green at the back, had thousands of games of twenty aside on there before they stopped mowing it. It’s a completely changed landscape there now. When I grew up Richards Tiles was there, with that massive big (pinky/creamy coloured?) building with a chimney bellowing smoke 24/7. Plus the green railings all the way down Dividy from the Waggon. The Art Deco style lodge halfway down where the entrance was with the big clock there. Now it’s them new builds and a Lidl. At the bottom of Hall Hill before you got to the ‘big bank’, there used to be massive mounds of broken tiles. We used to go down and smash them up even more. Then climb up the big bank and slide down it on bits of lino Got more memories on the Bentilee side of Dividy. Tom’s Bake Shop at the big shops, stealing sweets from the Post Office by the Hollybush, the park with the massive slide by The Man ‘o Clay... My Nan and Grandad on me Dad’s side lived in that little row of terraces between the PMT depot and the Waggon. Me Grandad was a Waggon regular. Then they moved to Bambury Street Loads of memories, this thread is great 👍🏽
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Post by franklin66 on Apr 10, 2019 18:28:28 GMT
Ubberley wmc Berryhill was other side of Dividy rd near to the garage think it was Hall Hill Drive. I stand corrected it was Berryhill on Calvary 👍, which club was off Hallhill Drive then? My Nan and Grandad (on my Mum’s side) lived on Hall Hill Drive. I spent loads of my childhood (in the 80s and 90s) there. Egg man used to come Satdee mornings - leave a lobby bowl on the step with 50p in it! There was a shop van that came and sold Highland Toffee. Chip van used to park at the top of the street, just at the start of the Dividy slip road. They were right greasy chips. Ice cream van played ‘Lili Marlene’ and was driven by that old Italian bloke - you wanta ninety nineah?! Spent many many hours in The Legion with me Grandad playing pool and guzzling pop and crisps on a Friday night. Then it became Renegades western club and they used to have re-enactments of Wild West shootouts on the green/car park on Sunday afternoons. We used to stand at the back door after dinner and watch all the weirdos dressed in ten gallon hats and chaps firing cap guns at each other! Speaking of the green at the back, had thousands of games of twenty aside on there before they stopped mowing it. It’s a completely changed landscape there now. When I grew up Richards Tiles was there, with that massive big (pinky/creamy coloured?) building with a chimney bellowing smoke 24/7. Plus the green railings all the way down Dividy from the Waggon. The Art Deco style lodge halfway down where the entrance was with the big clock there. Now it’s them new builds and a Lidl. At the bottom of Hall Hill before you got to the ‘big bank’, there used to be massive mounds of broken tiles. We used to go down and smash them up even more. Then climb up the big bank and slide down it on bits of lino Got more memories on the Bentilee side of Dividy. Tom’s Bake Shop at the big shops, stealing sweets from the Post Office by the Hollybush, the park with the massive slide by The Man ‘o Clay... My Nan and Grandad on me Dad’s side lived in that little row of terraces between the PMT depot and the Waggon. Me Grandad was a Waggon regular. Then they moved to Bambury Street Loads of memories, this thread is great 👍🏽 My local the Wagon what's ye Grandad name might know him, regular in the same period.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2019 18:30:25 GMT
I've always seen the dividing line between Bentilee and Bucknall to be the brook since Mitchell/Hanley High was always considered to be in Bucknall so that seemed like the natural point to distinguish between the two. Bentilee is pretty much everything that just comes off from Beverley drive looping onto Dividy in the sort of D shape though isn't it. One thing I have always found really bizarre is that despite how close Berryhill is to one of the industrial estates on Fenton, there's no direct road through. Seems silly when you consider how much traffic that could alleviate at Limekiln and Anchor Road. Although to be honest its completely the same the other side where part of Bentilee comes pretty close to Werrington Road, a road there would also really alleviate traffic down by Limekiln. There actually was a way to drive through , but not to Fenton.
I don't remember the names but coming down Dividy from the gas tower, by Twigg St you turned left alongside a pub. The road turned into a track and then back into a road. It brought you out along Leek Rd somewhere. So, it wasn't exactly a road through to Fenton, but it took you away from the nose to tail traffic down Dividy, to Lime Kiln, and down leek Rd. It was sort of a quicker way to Stoke or Hanley in rush hour. A sort of Lime Kiln By Pass.
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Post by bigcashprizes on Apr 10, 2019 18:31:28 GMT
My Nan and Grandad (on my Mum’s side) lived on Hall Hill Drive. I spent loads of my childhood (in the 80s and 90s) there. Egg man used to come Satdee mornings - leave a lobby bowl on the step with 50p in it! There was a shop van that came and sold Highland Toffee. Chip van used to park at the top of the street, just at the start of the Dividy slip road. They were right greasy chips. Ice cream van played ‘Lili Marlene’ and was driven by that old Italian bloke - you wanta ninety nineah?! Spent many many hours in The Legion with me Grandad playing pool and guzzling pop and crisps on a Friday night. Then it became Renegades western club and they used to have re-enactments of Wild West shootouts on the green/car park on Sunday afternoons. We used to stand at the back door after dinner and watch all the weirdos dressed in ten gallon hats and chaps firing cap guns at each other! Speaking of the green at the back, had thousands of games of twenty aside on there before they stopped mowing it. It’s a completely changed landscape there now. When I grew up Richards Tiles was there, with that massive big (pinky/creamy coloured?) building with a chimney bellowing smoke 24/7. Plus the green railings all the way down Dividy from the Waggon. The Art Deco style lodge halfway down where the entrance was with the big clock there. Now it’s them new builds and a Lidl. At the bottom of Hall Hill before you got to the ‘big bank’, there used to be massive mounds of broken tiles. We used to go down and smash them up even more. Then climb up the big bank and slide down it on bits of lino Got more memories on the Bentilee side of Dividy. Tom’s Bake Shop at the big shops, stealing sweets from the Post Office by the Hollybush, the park with the massive slide by The Man ‘o Clay... My Nan and Grandad on me Dad’s side lived in that little row of terraces between the PMT depot and the Waggon. Me Grandad was a Waggon regular. Then they moved to Bambury Street Loads of memories, this thread is great 👍🏽 My local the Wagon what's ye Grandad name might know him, regular in the same period. Harold Bath, I think they moved to Bambury in the early 70s. So he’d have been in the Wagon through the 60s I think
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Post by franklin66 on Apr 10, 2019 18:45:27 GMT
My local the Wagon what's ye Grandad name might know him, regular in the same period. Harold Bath, I think they moved to Bambury in the early 70s. So he’d have been in the Wagon through the 60s I think Ah before my time i'm an 80s 90s local.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 10, 2019 19:27:19 GMT
There are plans to open up the road that goes down by the side of the Trent Tavern to traffic. The red line goes from Eaton Park, I'd guess the residents there would be a bit miffed if a shit load of traffic made its way through their estate, wouldn't bother me That's my route to the Vic, through the old NCB over Viccy road past Fenton baths there in no time. Been a few times that way meself, usually end up inexplicably in the Terrace or the Bench and Bar in Fenton when I do
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Post by werrington on Apr 10, 2019 19:34:37 GMT
I've always seen the dividing line between Bentilee and Bucknall to be the brook since Mitchell/Hanley High was always considered to be in Bucknall so that seemed like the natural point to distinguish between the two. Bentilee is pretty much everything that just comes off from Beverley drive looping onto Dividy in the sort of D shape though isn't it. One thing I have always found really bizarre is that despite how close Berryhill is to one of the industrial estates on Fenton, there's no direct road through. Seems silly when you consider how much traffic that could alleviate at Limekiln and Anchor Road. Although to be honest its completely the same the other side where part of Bentilee comes pretty close to Werrington Road, a road there would also really alleviate traffic down by Limekiln. There actually was a way to drive through , but not to Fenton.
I don't remember the names but coming down Dividy from the gas tower, by Twigg St you turned left alongside a pub. The road turned into a track and then back into a road. It brought you out along Leek Rd somewhere. So, it wasn't exactly a road through to Fenton, but it took you away from the nose to tail traffic down Dividy, to Lime Kiln, and down leek Rd. It was sort of a quicker way to Stoke or Hanley in rush hour. A sort of Lime Kiln By Pass.
Fenton road by the Trent Tavern , it was ( still is ) a dirt track with two foot deep holes in it 😊 It skirted Eaton Park and like you say joined up to a road that dropped down by the old Eastwood Hanley FC under the railway bridge
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Post by elystokie on Apr 10, 2019 20:35:37 GMT
There actually was a way to drive through , but not to Fenton.
I don't remember the names but coming down Dividy from the gas tower, by Twigg St you turned left alongside a pub. The road turned into a track and then back into a road. It brought you out along Leek Rd somewhere. So, it wasn't exactly a road through to Fenton, but it took you away from the nose to tail traffic down Dividy, to Lime Kiln, and down leek Rd. It was sort of a quicker way to Stoke or Hanley in rush hour. A sort of Lime Kiln By Pass.
Fenton road by the Trent Tavern , it was ( still is ) a dirt track with two foot deep holes in it 😊 It skirted Eaton Park and like you say joined up to a road that dropped down by the old Eastwood Hanley FC under the railway bridge There's been rumours that that's where a new road is going to go, think it's part of the new housing proposals.
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Post by trentvale68 on Apr 27, 2019 11:54:34 GMT
Really enjoyed this thread even though I've only been to Bentilee once in my life lol.
Thinking of something similar with Trent Vale but not sure if there is enough other Vegasites on here lol.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 27, 2019 12:07:21 GMT
Really enjoyed this thread even though I've only been to Bentilee once in my life lol. Thinking of something similar with Trent Vale but not sure if there is enough other Vegasites on here lol. Spent the first two years of my life in Greyswood Rd, number 39, my grandparents place, don't remember anything tho. We went back every Sunday (as did plenty of my cousins and their families) until my Grandad died, we also used to visit relatives in Woodlands Road. Had two aunts in Oakhill as well.
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Post by maxplonk on Apr 28, 2019 12:07:52 GMT
Queens is flattened now Twigg St is the boundary but Berryhill is classed as Bucknall also ....Anything 300 yards passed the old Bucknall hospital becomes Abbey Well it does to me anyway 😊 I went to Maria gorreti on Aylesbury, there letters always said bucknall on. Guess they were in denial! Berryhill was anything other side of dividy slip. Bucknall started as you went downhill from twiggy The priest (Father Ryall) insisted on using Bucknall and not Bentilee.
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Post by werrington on Jul 10, 2020 11:35:39 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Jul 10, 2020 12:06:21 GMT
Was there a Berryhill junior school Wez? I thought it was always Eaton Park. Pic 17 Thanks for the link
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Post by werrington on Jul 10, 2020 12:16:24 GMT
Was there a Berryhill junior school Wez? I thought it was always Eaton Park. Pic 17 Thanks for the link No mate they’ve got it wrong.....Eaton Park infants and juniors with Berryhill High ( now sadly flattened ) on the other side of Arbourfield Drive
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Post by elystokie on Jul 10, 2020 12:37:24 GMT
Was there a Berryhill junior school Wez? I thought it was always Eaton Park. Pic 17 Thanks for the link No mate they’ve got it wrong.....Eaton Park infants and juniors with Berryhill High ( now sadly flattened ) on the other side of Arbourfield Drive Thought as much. Yeh, I go past the Berrhill site a lot, supposedly building houses there soon but they've abandoned the other housing project that was scheduled for Berryhill Fields so who knows what'll happen now. Hanley High is still in its flattened state as well, I did wonder if these sort of places couldn't be turned into some form of emergency/temporary accommodation but I guess the upkeep costs make it more economically viable to knock em down.
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Post by richie22 on Jul 10, 2020 12:51:06 GMT
Some fantastic pictures , amazes me still how much the shape of the land has changed, they did a great job of the reclamation
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Post by elystokie on Jul 10, 2020 14:06:09 GMT
Some fantastic pictures , amazes me still how much the shape of the land has changed, they did a great job of the reclamation I found a video somewhere on line of a bus tour during the regeneration scheme, just spent a while searching but can't find the bugger again It showed the slag heap just behind Richards on part of the journey, I might try again later.
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Post by richie22 on Jul 10, 2020 14:14:12 GMT
Just come back to the reservation, and things have not changed . The estate gets a rough deal but I maintain that there is good hard working people here, I wish that I kept photos of the past. There was a photo online but can’t find now of Beverley drive looking downhill toward the bottom green taken from the corner of Maidstone .summer 1953. There was kids playing on the green, my dad was a child in one of those houses at the time. He loved seeing that photo. Times just don’t change here
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Post by elystokie on Jul 10, 2020 14:28:23 GMT
Just come back to the reservation, and things have not changed . The estate gets a rough deal but I maintain that there is good hard working people here, I wish that I kept photos of the past. There was a photo online but can’t find now of Beverley drive looking downhill toward the bottom green taken from the corner of Maidstone .summer 1953. There was kids playing on the green, my dad was a child in one of those houses at the time. He loved seeing that photo. Times just don’t change here Haven't seen one of Beverley, just the Dawlish one from the olden days images.app.goo.gl/N4mdXLeKcpCjXFuSA
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Post by richie22 on Jul 10, 2020 14:31:11 GMT
Just come back to the reservation, and things have not changed . The estate gets a rough deal but I maintain that there is good hard working people here, I wish that I kept photos of the past. There was a photo online but can’t find now of Beverley drive looking downhill toward the bottom green taken from the corner of Maidstone .summer 1953. There was kids playing on the green, my dad was a child in one of those houses at the time. He loved seeing that photo. Times just don’t change here Haven't seen one of Beverley, just the Dawlish one from the olden days images.app.goo.gl/N4mdXLeKcpCjXFuSAThat’s a good photo, my Nan lived just down the hill on the right. Any happy memories of going down that hill on my skateboard...
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Post by marylandstoke on Jul 10, 2020 16:21:30 GMT
Threshers with the big perspex cage to stop robbers. The only other place i've seen them is in Liverpool Moss Side. Every offy.
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Post by marylandstoke on Jul 10, 2020 16:52:48 GMT
Never been but love this thread and thank you all so much. Fascinating reading.
I did have a genuine question. I look over at the Sentivale on line every now and again. Pretty sure I have seen the Wagon in a few crime reports haven’t I?
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Post by richie22 on Jul 10, 2020 18:18:32 GMT
Threshers with the big perspex cage to stop robbers. The only other place i've seen them is in Liverpool Moss Side. Every offy. Jesus threshers .... bottle of 20/20 and 3L of white lightning....as you were
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Post by elystokie on Jul 10, 2020 18:52:16 GMT
Never been but love this thread and thank you all so much. Fascinating reading. I did have a genuine question. I look over at the Sentivale on line every now and again. Pretty sure I have seen the Wagon in a few crime reports haven’t I? Probably, in days gone by. I think there was an unsavoury incident a few years ago outside that made the press, I vaguely remember a picnic table and some rowdy behaviour on a security camera. It's been turned into flats now Think the Wagon was there before the estate was built, all the other pubs were of that same council estate build but the Wagon was different and was on a corner on what would have been a mainish route.
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Post by stonmg on Jul 12, 2020 18:18:53 GMT
Devonshire Square Shops- Woolworths, Boots,Hubanks,Tesco, Hardware shop, Bookies, laundrette and post office then the other side were Coop,Shoe Shop Tiko Bakers,Butchers and Papershop carn't remember the shop on the end!
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Post by franklin66 on Jul 12, 2020 18:34:08 GMT
Never been but love this thread and thank you all so much. Fascinating reading. I did have a genuine question. I look over at the Sentivale on line every now and again. Pretty sure I have seen the Wagon in a few crime reports haven’t I? Probably, in days gone by. I think there was an unsavoury incident a few years ago outside that made the press, I vaguely remember a picnic table and some rowdy behaviour on a security camera. It's been turned into flats now Think the Wagon was there before the estate was built, all the other pubs were of that same council estate build but the Wagon was different and was on a corner on what would have been a mainish route. There might have been in modern times unfortunately the landlords brother was a prolific burglar after my time so about 1990 or so and bought trouble with him.
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Post by deadwait on Jul 12, 2020 18:45:56 GMT
Devonshire Square Shops- Woolworths, Boots,Hubanks,Tesco, Hardware shop, Bookies, laundrette and post office then the other side were Coop,Shoe Shop Tiko Bakers,Butchers and Papershop carn't remember the shop on the end! My Mother worked in the Dawlish Road Post Office for a few years. I seem to remember the Sub Postmaster was Mr Frost. Very busy Office !
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Post by elystokie on Jul 12, 2020 19:03:32 GMT
Probably, in days gone by. I think there was an unsavoury incident a few years ago outside that made the press, I vaguely remember a picnic table and some rowdy behaviour on a security camera. It's been turned into flats now Think the Wagon was there before the estate was built, all the other pubs were of that same council estate build but the Wagon was different and was on a corner on what would have been a mainish route. There might have been in modern times unfortunately the landlords brother was a prolific burglar after my time so about 1990 or so and bought trouble with him. There was a video knocking about a while back from the pub security camera mate, probably somewhere on the Sentinel site. It seemed a nice little pub whenever I went in, which admittedly wasn't a lot.
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Post by stonmg on Jul 12, 2020 19:07:10 GMT
Devonshire Square Shops- Woolworths, Boots,Hubanks,Tesco, Hardware shop, Bookies, laundrette and post office then the other side were Coop,Shoe Shop Tiko Bakers,Butchers and Papershop carn't remember the shop on the end! My Mother worked in the Dawlish Road Post Office for a few years. I seem to remember the Sub Postmaster was Mr Frost. Very busy Office ! They owned the laundrette as well!
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Post by elystokie on Jul 12, 2020 19:15:26 GMT
Devonshire Square Shops- Woolworths, Boots,Hubanks,Tesco, Hardware shop, Bookies, laundrette and post office then the other side were Coop,Shoe Shop Tiko Bakers,Butchers and Papershop carn't remember the shop on the end! The papershop was on the end originally, at some point it was turned into a fruit and veg shop I think.
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