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For a list of all [[Noble Street]] Houses and a history of [[Noble Street]] overall please refer to the [[Noble Street]] page.

''* Information Supplied by [[Clive Dalton]] January 2024.''

'''No 7. Woods then Milburns'''

I remember Jimmy and Helen Wood moving in while Jimmy worked at the Steele where he was a crane driver lifting the guns on and off the flat railway wagons for testing from the Vickers Armstrong factory at Scotswood near Newcastle. Jimmy rode to work on a flash bike with bent handlebars which Dad bought off him for brother Geoff, and then had to buy it again off Geoff for me. He never let us forget that he had bought the bike twice! Geoff was far too mean to give it to me.

Jimmy built a hut above the back lane with slabs from Hesleyside sawmill in which he kept Silver Fox rabbits for their pelts. But he was keen to farm and got the tenancy of Dove Cottage small holding at Reedsmouth which I visited on the train and bike from age 7 each Saturday and during school holidays, which had a major influence on my future life and career in agriculture.

After the Wood’s left, George Milburn, wife Jenny and daughter Rosa moved in. I remember George coming back from the war in 1945 with an enormous stack of razor blades all covered in grease that he had purloined from a German factory. He never would have used them all in a hundred lifetimes. George was a keen golfer and gave us kids lessons on the correct way to ‘address the ball’ on our little course we had made behind on the sheep-grazed area behind the netties and ash pits. We were not allowed on the golf course although we did sometimes sneak there to play a hole until we were seen and chased off. Remember we were ‘snotty-nosed Snoggy Gate kids’!

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