Comments for The Ambler

Comment on Memories of old Amble by Trevor Lundgren

Trevor Lundgren — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:46:17 +0000

My dad is Eddie Lundgren from Amble(b1931) and mother Irene from “the drift” (b.1932).
They both have fond memories of Brian Nunn and the boys club too – even I met him
I remember Sandra Thirtle at school – are you her father?
I was born in 1955 and left Amble in 1968 when my parents moved down south – they have now retired to Alnwick but I am still living in Herfordshire.
It was good to read your memories.

Comment on Letters: April – May 2012 by Patricia

Patricia — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:20:43 +0000

Given the date 31st Oct. Halloween – when Witches fly and the location, It has to be Peggy Gordon former owner of the Salt Pans. She kept her broomstick and cauldron in the porch and spent her live ‘brewing up’ trouble. Also, loved spirits.

Comment on Letters: April – May 2012 by Peter Cannon

Peter Cannon — Sun, 13 May 2012 15:37:08 +0000

Leaping Woman

Location: Amble – Cliffs close to Cliff House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 31 October (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A ghostly woman leaps from these cliffs, fading away before she hits the sea below.

Found this reference on a paranormal site on web, Having lived in Amble all my life I have never heard anything about this!!

Anyone ?? note date supposed to appear!

Comment on Letters: April – May 2012 by w nelson

w nelson — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:00:18 +0000

as a kid growing up in amble .i remember quite clearly the tug AYR pushing steamers olngside the wharfs to load coal. a very busy port in them days .i now live near the port of geelong in victoria australia.

Comment on The Smiling Service Shop by Peter Cannon

Peter Cannon — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:21:17 +0000

The Shop Poison books and records I personally delivered to the Records office some are available at Woodhorn but the Poison books are closed to public for 100 years ,

Comment on The Smiling Service Shop by Peter Cannon

Peter Cannon — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:18:33 +0000

I was One of Miss Ushers Delivery lads from a very early age, Still occasionally doing so til Joined Army in my Early 20s, still after leaving Army right til Her Passing 29th Feb 2000 , did here shopping , took her to Corbridge to Brenda her sister, If Any one in Amble ever should have been considered for National reccognition for service to community it Was Miss Usher, Her pink ointment adorned every Generation in Ambles Backside for five decades, Cough mixture cured more ails , Ushers the Chemist was the first call for many Amble and district residents before a Docs Visit, A dear life long Friend sadly missed .

Comment on The Smiling Service Shop by Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:42:33 +0000

My favorite shop on Queen St. in the 60/70s was Usher’s the chemist. The lovely Muriel Usher – Ambles very own Miss Havisham. She was ‘not of this world’, alone in her dusty Victorian chemist shop, with the cobwebs, the Latin names on the bottles and jars. She would disappear into the back dispensary to make up the cough mixtures, the gastric Kaolin and Morphine mixture, etc. – writing the prescriptions in ‘Latin’ in the dispensing book on the large desk/counter. She also had a delivery boy.
Towards the end, she only opened in the afternoon, but I always ‘shopped’ with her – to step back in time, soak-up the atmosphere and talk to her.
It is nice that she is remember in the Towns garden. When I visit Amble – weather permitting – I sometimes sit in the garden and think, what might have been, for both of us, if ‘fate’ had not intervened !!

Comment on Letters: April – May 2012 by Ken Rochester

Ken Rochester — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:41:31 +0000

I am glad to hear there was a paddle tug in Amble!!I did remember it as a child in Amble and this has jogged my memory!!At present working in Australia near a port called Gladstone which exports Coal!!Lots of jetties and coal ships being loaded as well as grain and aluminium ore and the Great Barrier reef only miles away.Lovely town here and local amenities.

Comment on Letters: April – May 2012 by Doug Ford

Doug Ford — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:55:14 +0000

The picture of the AYR entering the harbour is a later vessel to the one mentioned in the link. She was built by JP Rennoldson & Sons of South Shields in 1897 for the Ayr Harbour Trustees and came to Amble about 1926 when she was bought by the Broomhill Coal Co. to replace the paddle tug, PALMERSTON. She stayed until she was broken up in late 1949.

Comment on Prospect Terrace 1895 – 1959 by Lynda Crackett

Lynda Crackett — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:58:00 +0000

This map brings back memories. I have been trying to remember some of the old shops on Queen St. “Fenty Taylor’s”, as my granny used to call it, was one I had forgotten. My Dad worked in Carse’s offices in Prospect Place before they build the new office (now a private house) on Bede St.