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ts wellesley on fire


ts wellesley on fire

ts wellesley on fire on the tyne at north shields.



    Hi Terry

    Nice set of photographs - if anyone is interested in TS Wellesley, this is a good site to check out her history :- http://www.wellesley...lfreepages.com/

    Regards

    Steve E.
    thanks steve , i was wondering if after the fire, thats how they came to end up in blyth. :D
    Hi Terry

    I knew about the temporary set up at The Plaza as I've seen photographs from that era. What I hadn't realised until I read that site was the school at Blyth was previously the site of the WW2 Submarine Base.

    You live and learn  :D

    Regards

    Steve E.
    i think its all gone now steve it will soon be a new housing estate.
    Hi Terry

    Last time I was up there it was all demolished apart from a couple of boarded up accommodation blocks.

    Yes the caravan park at Blyth was the first to be done away with - can you remember that, it was on the corner going towards Whitley Bay. Now covered with swanky 'luxury apartments' - why do they never build 'flats' these days  :D

    Regards

    Steve E.

    TSWellesley
    Jul 26 2009 04:07 AM
    Steve/Terry

    The TS Wellesley in the pics was renamed from Admiral Boscawen. The Figurehead from the ship stood on the Schools 'quarterdeck' for many years.

    When the site was used as a WW1 Submarine base it was called Elfin, after the Submarine of the same name.
    It was then bought after £22,000 was raised by local businessmen to house the 'waifs & strays' after the TS Wellelsey fire in 1914. They were, as you said, temporarily housed in the Tynemouth Plaza at the time.

    The School was based there from then until 1996 with the exception of a period in temporary housing at Hamsterley in Durham during WW2
    It became a 'naughty boys' School in 1933.

    As far as building on the site goes. The developers have backed out because of the housing slump.

    If any ex 'naughty boys', or anyone with (or want any) info on Wellesley, visit this Forum, please get in touch.

    graham@tswellesley.com
    thanks graham. the next time i am along that way i will have a look and see what is left.
    Hi Terry

    I took a butchers the other week and there is zilch left apart from the entrance gateway you wouldn't be able to tell that there had been any buildings etc there. Now overgrown with vegetation and as Graham says, a victim of the credit crunch much the same as the various proposed developments along the banks of the Tyne  :D

    Regards

    Steve E.

    TSWellesley
    Jul 26 2009 01:00 PM
    Terry

    If you get in there with a metal detector I bet you'll have a field day. No one will kidnap you by the way :D
    i told you they were all pirates steve. now to find the hidden treasure :whistle: :D :whistle: :whistle: