Amble and District from old photographs (click to enlarge)

 

 
 Crew of the S.S. Togston. Amble (1929?) 'Amble Company', 7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers 1915 ID help required with this image. High Street Amble. The coal face, in a colliery 'near Amble'
       
Amble Dredger Hugh Andrews at work, 1900. Radcliffe - winners, Amble and District 1910-11 Quay & Staiths Amble Amble Salt Pans, brick chimney still in place
       
 
Boat Race in the harbour on an Amble 'Feast Day', 1930's. S.S. Hauxley S.S. Chevington Central Stores Broomhill
       
Whitefield Road, Red Row Foundry Falls, Acklington. Chevington Station Broomhill Station
       
The "Cretebow"; concrete ship being launched  at the Braid, Amble. "Coquet Island off Warkworth Harbour, Schooner heading about waiting for the tide" Joseph Straughan, Shilbottle Warkworth Church of England School 1920
       
Amble Church of England School
 Football Team 1926-27
Amble Church of England School
 Football Team 1928-29
Fame arrives in 1878 for the Amble owned vessel the Meggie Dixon, for all the wrong reasons. Old coloured image, Bede Street, Amble.
       
Bede Street Amble (Edwardian?)

 Bede Street, Amble; south side of the street not yet built.

Unidentified ship, collision damage. Unpublished photo from our family album. Ancestors worked various roles in the port. We feel 99% certain this is Amble - Any info? Another from the family album, Amble Secondary Modern School impromptu group photo, about 1950. A few old Amblers might recognise themselves or their parents in this one.
       
Zelandia and the Maria Stella on the rocks near Cliff House 1905 Market Place, Red Row.
Circa 1905
Warkworth Church Lads Brigade Camp 1903
some locals in there? 
Warkworth Church Lads Brigade Camp 1906
These camps were held on the banks of the Coquet, opposite Mill Walk
       

The following images are from the Ken Rochester collection. Ken spent his boyhood in Amble before moving to the Midlands in the 50s.

 
The Bede Street Club and neighbouring house plastered white from a blizzard in the severe winter of 1947. (1940s) Ballantyne's yard, corner of Byron Street and Middleton Street. The building in the background is the Mechanics' Institute, now the Amble public library. Accidental photographic masterpiece? if David Bailey had taken this one it would've been praised to the high heavens. Circa 1947 Amble children swimming party, Amble beach. A magical Amble long since gone.  
       
       
       
 
Image donations wanted!! All townships: Warkworth, Chevington, Amble, Acklington and Shilbottle Parishes! Please contact us and we'll respond promptly.
 
 

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