Thanks for posting this! I grew up in West Monkseaton in the sixties and seventies and it was great to see such a good quality aerial view of all the old haunts. Our house was at 40 Grange Park. It has been expanded quite a lot in the intervening years. There has been a fair amount of new building on the Earsdon side of the station, which used to be an open cast mine in the '30s when most of West Monkseaton was built. The old mine was just fields by the '70s. Nice to see how well preserved the station is! The art deco design was quite delicate and needed a lot of maintenance. The platforms used to be wooden planks and there were wooden waiting rooms back in the day. On the other side of Earsdon Road was Dickies Home Farm, run by the Potters. I knew of James Potter who was a couple of years below me at school. The whole form seems to have been demolished. We often played at the pit heaps behind Thorntree Drive. There were great paths for riding bikes.
Thanks for posting this! I grew up in West Monkseaton in the sixties and seventies and it was great to see such a good quality aerial view of all the old haunts. Our house was at 40 Grange Park. It has been expanded quite a lot in the intervening years. There has been a fair amount of new building on the Earsdon side of the station, which used to be an open cast mine in the '30s when most of West Monkseaton was built. The old mine was just fields by the '70s. Nice to see how well preserved the station is! The art deco design was quite delicate and needed a lot of maintenance. The platforms used to be wooden planks and there were wooden waiting rooms back in the day. On the other side of Earsdon Road was Dickies Home Farm, run by the Potters. I knew of James Potter who was a couple of years below me at school. The whole form seems to have been demolished. We often played at the pit heaps behind Thorntree Drive. There were great paths for riding bikes.