SOME IMAGES FROM SOUTH SHIELDS AND AREA FROM THE LATER 20TH CENTURY
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THE OLD FUNFAIR BESIDE THE COASTGUARDS' BUILDING ON THE FRONT - POSTCARDBOUGHT AROUND 1975

POSTCARD OF OCEAN ROAD BOUGHT AROUND 1975 and IMAGE FROM LATER YEARS




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One of the two former Italian ice cream parlours on Ocean Road said to be in a' local vendetta': Mancini's and Minchella's.


Here was Mancini's Ice Cream Parlour, closed in 1970's
not definitively know whether due to Mafia hit from Minchella's Ice Cream Parlour in the same Ocean Road




FROM 'THE HOPPINGS' ANNUAL FUNFAIR AT NEWCASTLE - CA 1976. GYPSY RELATIVE OF THE UBIQUITOUS ROSIE LEE 'PETROLEIGO's CARAVAN