Greenwoods pawnbrokers. We used to walk from Russell St to Smeaton St to get the trackless to South Bank to visit family when I was a kid. I remember we used to love going over the footbridge. Past the railway was the abbatoir, and I remember there was a blacksmith’s forge on Smeaton St itself, close to the trolley stop.
Takes me back 75 years! I remember visiting the blacksmiths, probably about 1950, with my grandmother. I think her brother worked there.
Greenwood’s was owned by a friends uncle and in 1965 Dave got a shotgun from him. This nearly got us into trouble for “trespassing in pursuit of game “. Fortunately the owner of the shooting rights didn’t press charges!
I used the bridge regularly as a lad in the 60s if the gates were closed to allow the Whitby train past.
There was a second hand shop called Greenwoods just past the bridge full of all sorts, I used to like to look at the guitars in the window.
My father in law who lived in George Street near to the bridge said he had seen the Northern Lights from the top of the bridge when he was a lad which would have been in the 1930s.
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What a great image. Yes recognise that. As I recall there was a junk shop very near that crossing.
Greenwoods pawnbrokers. We used to walk from Russell St to Smeaton St to get the trackless to South Bank to visit family when I was a kid. I remember we used to love going over the footbridge. Past the railway was the abbatoir, and I remember there was a blacksmith’s forge on Smeaton St itself, close to the trolley stop.
Takes me back 75 years! I remember visiting the blacksmiths, probably about 1950, with my grandmother. I think her brother worked there.
Greenwood’s was owned by a friends uncle and in 1965 Dave got a shotgun from him. This nearly got us into trouble for “trespassing in pursuit of game “. Fortunately the owner of the shooting rights didn’t press charges!
It was the pawnbrokers Greenwoods.
I used the bridge regularly as a lad in the 60s if the gates were closed to allow the Whitby train past.
There was a second hand shop called Greenwoods just past the bridge full of all sorts, I used to like to look at the guitars in the window.
My father in law who lived in George Street near to the bridge said he had seen the Northern Lights from the top of the bridge when he was a lad which would have been in the 1930s.