Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Avenue: A Newcastle Backstreet Boyhood
    The Avenue: A Newcastle Backstreet Boyhood
    The Avenue: A Newcastle Backstreet Boyhood
    Ebook284 pages11 hours

    The Avenue: A Newcastle Backstreet Boyhood

    By Samuel W Herbert

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The Avenue stretched from Elswick Road to Scotswood Road, and almost every house in it was tenemented. There were four courtyards and a conglomeration of passages. Situated at one end of each of these courtyards was a row of toilets, and we watched as queues formed outside each of them. We were soon to become accustomed to this distressing necessity. It would be almost impossible to describe every aspect of this dirty lane, but this much can be said - even in those days of housing shortages and woeful sanitary facilities, the conditions that prevailed in The Avenue were almost beyond belief.' This is a hard-hitting account of growing up in Newcastle's West End during the uncertain years of the First World War and the Depression. Samuel Herbert had to grow up fast when his mother moved the family to a cockroach-infested tenement in Elswick while his Dad - a miner - was away fighting on the front line. Along with the shared 'netties' and the terrible living conditions, Samuel learned how to deal with the bullies and the gangs until he grew as tough as they were. His fight to get out of this poverty-stricken existence was always hindered by something and he continuously ended up back in that same sorrowful place called The Avenue. Along with the tragedy, however, came lots of laughs, and Samuel's unique account demonstrates the humour, courage and indomitable spirit of the local population. Prepare to be amused and entertained, surpirsed and moved by these stories, which vividly capture the heart and heritage of this former mining community.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2012
    ISBN9780752477275
    The Avenue: A Newcastle Backstreet Boyhood

    Related to The Avenue

    Related ebooks

    Personal Memoirs For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Shelf Life

      Aug 3, 2023

      Over My Dead Body is my debut novel for the adult market (‘my debut adult novel’ provokes other connotations…) and has, like its author, had a long and complex evolution. I originally wrote it as a TV script, but I had an unfortunate habit of getting

      5 min read

    • Article

      Seven Books I’ll Never Read

      Aug 7, 2018

      Seven Books I’ll Never Read
      6 min read

    • Article

      Sir Kenneth Branagh

      Jan 17, 2022

      Sir Kenneth Branagh
      5 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      Day after Thanksgiving. I give thanks for Eveto beat the rush of appreciating hernext year and let her sleep inuntil three hundred o’clock.Thank you light on the mountainfor being my star on cloudy nights.Thank you all the guns I’ve never ownedand ki

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Truthteller’s Toolkit

      Apr 25, 2020

      Once upon a time, a writer might contact an agent and confess their desire to publish an essay collection. And once upon a time, an agent might have resisted an urge to laugh in the writer’s face. As a form, essays had fallen out of favor, hard, and

      8 min read

    • Article

      Jane Campbell

      Oct 12, 2022

      Jane Campbell
      2 min read

    • Article

      Alan Cumming

      Nov 1, 2021

      Alan Cumming
      5 min read

    • Article

      Love Is All Around

      Jan 16, 2020

      IT’S a leap year, gulp. As if the Valentine’s gush isn’t enough, now the girlfriends and single ladies among us must publicly announce our undying love by proposal. I’ve spent at least two leap years and nearly a decade of Valentine’s Days concentrat

      4 min read

    • Article

      Why We Write

      Aug 12, 2020

      AND WHY WE STOP THIS kind of thing used to thrill me—a few dozen writers huddled in a dark bar, taking turns at the mic, hooting and cheering one another afterward. I could sense the way it felt to most of them—nourishing, holy, the air charged with

      7 min read

    • Article

      No One Wants To Hear Your Whole Life Story

      Jun 18, 2019

      The bad news about memoir: Nobody wants to read your life story. The good news: That means you don’t have to write your life story. Once you start a memoir with the glorious moment you were born, planning to sail onward through early childhood and th

      5 min read

    • Article

      Opening Chapters

      Mar 4, 2021

      Opening Chapters
      8 min read

    • Article

      My Mid-life Crisis

      Nov 30, 2023

      I’D SEEN THE WORD ON SOCIAL MEDIA. MID. THE SHOW WAS MID. THE song was mid. The rapper was mid. So many shows, songs, rappers, and more are unknown to me, trees in the now-bewildering wilderness of pop culture that the young navigate effortlessly. Bu

      5 min read

    • Article

      Star Letter

      Dec 1, 2022

      Star Letter
      6 min read

    • Article

      Shelf Life

      Feb 1, 2024

      ©Rachel Pendlebury Red Side Story is my current book, published this month. It is the sequel to Shades of Grey, a book I wrote ten years ago, a dystopian thriller set in a world where the social hierarchy is governed by the colours you can see. Grey

      7 min read

    • Article

      Now Is the Time

      Nov 24, 2020

      Now Is the Time
      5 min read

    • Article

      Winners Take All!

      Mar 7, 2024

      Congratulations to everyone who entered the Writing Magazine Children’s Book Prize 2023! There were 61 entries in the chapter book prize category and it was very tricky whittling them down. However, we are delighted to share our top three winning ent

      7 min read

    • Article

      What Lies Beyond

      May 23, 2021

      Karl Stead, poet, critic, fiction writer and memoirist, keeps saying he has been told he could cark it at any moment – a matter of his wonky heart – then he doesn’t cark it at any moment. He is 88. I think he will go on not carking it until he is 99,

      9 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Avenue

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Avenue - Samuel W Herbert

      #2^book_preview_excerpt.html\ےu3-_ DrW!Z =V7(L{g9gI;BUu.y\?<_|OS}+_柾X&ު! C/6O^S0㟹jҵjmɶYlsujpgq)NshV5J8lM9V};|e2KhBL]@M.in6]Neu#E=f H[H|>&HC:- N}Ƃot#R':؆m/@m\ا0v\dGm~!NUg3%< R b1cp+#`rn崒<>LnA4a:PK*t%PF`E(~S 8oA~"+I9B9Cp =:{|-4^6Xnޠk Ky@sqo=P((Xa& yos6RCx~C@ l˞؁dA4oSE_\qr3<Wv6cACA/ tLo>6UCPFJh~L7nR%{}KZqH@\x_he] Xb綇ڝ Q`g k(a"s׸+p 4'& oE>rAV=5jk{L U՟2?4 ҅&w% 6-}'o[rVL!{Nf0~+@۸I8u U^GJx=!Tu0=?iN ,jʏK%NFEdc_lcbH ;$J&0ȥmBkO z?^p4R /tGl2-oüNO.WB ]`X,d@ 7|.-k⩔f..Î[(H#j(5fųAH@ARs[4;|q(.빁NKg<8Qj[g'*n EC.9]0њ!FV|撊m^%F&U*.>Ndqo>!eiH':3)`6B¤}u}ҠR"yhէ{{:m[<HUjR#/S Yr~Ua\zI.Ά%;`hZ1NL^Yh!׃@l:3Àdqj!ULo2׋0qQY~fourЈ;@̢ꗓ";?4EDjj率gzuD[8'ffid3n2t=F^oky9t]W%\П7מNF)[{O_S'L  IؕlT^ ̷DQ&*Z>` 81l,^, ZvPӰ;j,AZa".аZ9`_hm 8)cD$:/-N oWceh5ghm-Aϟ,!<ġ ih`dL"zboZk!492sOK~M 49*`N@t$@Vɠnw9*z۶Ao:M-7n'+[^%яki?cdK-YJ:ZwHtvP,pdVB sJS)JhVbe阵SVoތ2ƟB-?UyRx3AM%w dr~䟊H>H"YV@0/{~ʬ-֓ƛa\L*68vvxU+[@?UDxOyI$S&>+.\ WAENrDTx~RD`h G!bәQ XhSo0@piDR$?"bʪ ;\4ULMt٭' ρEy/5oj!X>zfL#RiSknaVq}H5դf& oS <7%/ؚє\V !mFZlcLV #jg0ꁱDAr 6L,9{h% mfп*%؁X:=@qH^;kXRb+ l,(1 _XOCF^1tu[ر, $iuXb `CN% .Xժ}($] `K:MF3;X vTﭮAO~hVP1wPBzA0j.|/#7kmj@Au|MoN&N9^(~/*SNTϦ[e~oܘV@4Q{QYerh =[&Ƅ6B Kb1,89Wyf tHT}A;pm'G`vS3ixiw &|{u}q?O]òP3ipۖL~ ;׾$MIb{0LXLT>XJ`p7Ǿg-,&OPԞ[fVEW5+ څRg:u\{n%kn)iL֧"e /Yœk&ZMT#E>!*u ɇn9Mؖy`Y;$03?R]y&3%ɴ ұk}K-A"-⃫: kp<4 O ]Fp\fثV,hI  R*V˶Yʳ79 3}1:R%E@^X7|-2큆0kBh&lPE|vp>(`*w uf8B$? ~×z!C]brp&ER*5Ս7={sxXmfZ%e9@1٬י_`uGW5'ӣblR}PR}[9 bx hY[iε}CwŽRO?Bbɻ6ImȺUO**'4TΘ?+')HC>FܻX]H3-aWϦ}5c-}4*㵛h-\wAbӭ.1,, tjS^*^0ڤJ^{j5qk!)T/5:a M~x0#z?]?-/Ó3P'5eah!VylĬtPU@~JGĂ03[]Z 8Bx5^Mg}VWnXj5N>=0׭\6-ͷb-(m1#0?;sf 3Wq0\]}M,=$18+6|c@'#k22g=Y-3\GO^!d a~f+wQɻ?pñ^\~^v:d_bјj͢S +gHX@l,Ta\ #`$M\,*ėoaq6_֋s*HSLexS69 Ǘ4aFl|wx6zGYqY7RƻTMs2q@qbį83|:Zc@T<]5*?48'd.牳f˕j 5g?0Q Nf9m ڽ6l4'Sw3`Զhzؕ!5Q<|.5FQ^g=8M攆ehՂPZnp*efjbr ʾ6bsF: 8&r^X] 5a簉(ڟ]V#D(P-|7tgt 1b"H)k)igݺUQWzu/Fmȹ&pB|V f)I|N4y/_{EX5ɴUiB(QSjJ?˴%1*]2!{3;Q_^l~)xUelAd"-xI0Z:Z Y5\Z9tepv֠1BH >-ΊMJ<3-Y+^FGut5w's2GzpSj$*77%oIw?wj}_y>RXU<+F Oka(YaCWsewr)R;ﯖ|#%Gi2TSt CGߡ oWX)3[}giPEMQi3/nc[ $G֢/@;rd]^'qXu 4 61+?mxh]kn)m]G9{R_˘NfQCXMO6[a0bZtY֊&PirM'G_H׀M zB3n]tիV,,<='_B]sLN.nؽ>̋xN쮊՝Kn R.}9)P6,>X|i$B^lcAgR&*7wXRLj[vEb+FIި9jzRM -JS[iܘz)/ztgMYHW7I592Dvcuv(8*׬5XkoE@ 5>V%%KoRmWH :Kz]ߒY%N(dq _|H)$=Lr gw_~aL8cRWw7sP~eD/$wjpnk 6ۥ:XbR~j-Y'BV+P_fqD$8i x<Zt(8lz\Fm zdno,J07 /45ϼ USoo(u17,^wM~8\\( {[~Ud6) Yr4fŹs9sQ?£5/l^w t#(ٽC\%LW|(U] z\zAZ|ڛe᪶?r#.o4S&~|[٘ = F OƁõ 5M٫jo{TP;oo_epfF, yˁyErFpJqQwAϖ-.aWUuGVuU[ͼ_%F6W8vjfߙ*`)sdXwbq̐B&v*Usqj0>$to/txQ
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1