North Blyth Seven stars

[endurothumpers]

Anyone know what's going on down at the seven stars jetties north Blyth tried to take the family down for a few hours fishing.but they were working on something down there wouldn't let us through had all the land flattend

 

[d-a]

7 stars

7 stars

u have been going to blyth quay every week for about 4 month i have been watching through bins they have been doing very deep excavation for founds or storage tanks

 

[BAZACODBASHA]

I think the're building a new electricity sub station & apparently 2 large wind turbines are going up. Not sure if they are on land or off-shore, but someone told me they were even bigger than the ones off-shore at the moment !

 

[endurothumpers]

It looked like they had built a little sub station type thing but they look like there building up the big hill the 4x4's used to go up and down

 

[kopite2k06]

It looked like they had built a little sub station type thing but they look like there building up the big hill the 4x4's used to go up and down

Definatley sub station for offshore wind turbines mick. I was speaking to one of the gaffers from the company when he was on blyth pier the other week. He told me two of the new ones are gonna be the biggest in the world or Europe cant remember which. He was also asking our opinions on them and if we had objections .

 

[Davey1970]

aye, definately wind turbines, the new large building on the blyth side is narec, they are the world leaders in wind power transformation, and the two turbines being built at cambois will be there showpiece,
that`s what they hope anyway....!

 

[endurothumpers]

Well it looks like the nice easy access fishing is finished there for quite a while then as no one is allowed over by the jetties.

 

[Davey1970]

there`s still people walking along cambois pier, so easy access can`t be totally spoiled...!

 

[snatcher]

The 7 Stars Jetty - my very first fishing memories. Was little more than a toddler and can recall going there with my dad.

He used to cast out from the jetty,attach a bell to his rod tip and then keep an eye on his rod from inside the pub. Him on the beer and me with a lemonade !!!! Ha Ha

John

 

[d-a]

seven stars

seven stars

but the noise of the genarator for the pub (no mains )used to get on our nerves can you remember all the houses on the approach to the pub ithink it was north blyth had nettys you had to cross the lane to get to them

 

[snatcher]

but the noise of the genarator for the pub (no mains )used to get on our nerves can you remember all the houses on the approach to the pub ithink it was north blyth had nettys you had to cross the lane to get to them

I can recall we used to have to get the small ferry over from the south bank and then walk along the coal staithes to get there.

John

 

[kopite2k06]

The 7 Stars Jetty - my very first fishing memories. Was little more than a toddler and can recall going there with my dad.

He used to cast out from the jetty,attach a bell to his rod tip and then keep an eye on his rod from inside the pub. Him on the beer and me with a lemonade !!!! Ha Ha

John

Ive only lived in the north east 7 yrs so I dont remember the pub being there but have heard many a story along the same lines john

 

[d-a]

memorys

memorys

it was the seven stars that started my love of rock fishing i fished a comp the weigh in was at the seven stars i fished the jetty and cought a coddling 2pound i thought i won the compuntill the weigh in 30 anglers fished 210pound was weighed in all from cambois rocks the next week i fished the rocks and had 4 fish over 5 pound i was 14 at the time there was a lot of fish them days the winner off the comp was a bloke called jack barbour he had the north east record for cod they had a mark on cambois pier named after him

 

[elliott.e]

The 7 Stars Jetty - my very first fishing memories. Was little more than a toddler and can recall going there with my dad.

He used to cast out from the jetty,attach a bell to his rod tip and then keep an eye on his rod from inside the pub. Him on the beer and me with a lemonade !!!! Ha Ha

John

the pub was called the willick, next to bolco's ship yard

 

[Davey1970]

the pub was called the willick, next to bolco's ship yard

alreet m8,
the willick, and bolco`s was further up river, past the ferry landing, the seven stars jetty is called that because that`s where the seven stars pub was. a need to dig around because am sure there was another pub over there, get back to you on that 1.

 

[codseeker]

the garden worm arms tyneside was the best place i found ,the willick social club washington was good also ,but the plum arms was the best in my opinion

 

[Fishygone]

Have a look at this site - davidheyscollectionextra.com click on Cowpen & Blyth memoires. I have posted a couple of pics of the old pub in ( All our yesterdays )

john.

 

[endurothumpers]

Yes the seven stars was where I started fishing when I was very young we even used to camp on the waste ground behind where the houses where.we also used to enjoy.night fishing on the west staiths when the power station was all up and running I had an old Honda cb250 when I was 14 used that to go night fishing on the weekends used to ride it all the way to the end of the west staiths and when it got to cold used to start the engine and let it tickover to keep us warm.them was the days

 

[elliott.e]

Have a look at this site - davidheyscollectionextra.com click on Cowpen & Blyth memoires. I have posted a couple of pics of the old pub in ( All our yesterdays )

john.

the davidheys site is very interesting, my grandad worked at bolcoes, i'm a bit whipper snapper at 40 yr old so i can't remember the seven stars pub,only vaguely remember the willick and the old road into cambois, but i do remember my old man pulling cod in from the seven stars jetty, lots of them and good stamp (i think the smaller jetty was his favourite) i would catch podlers by the buket load with me handline, happy days, i also have vague memories of my cousin taking a doubler from the ferry jetty-good 30 years ago, i'll check up on that.

 

[Sam Smith]

I can remember back in the early 80s, the late Colin Young fishing a Shiremoor club match, landing a cod of (I think) 27lb from one of these jetties. His fishing buddy Alec Harvey, helped him land it, thus paying him back for his help the previous week in another Shiremoor match, when Colin helped Alec to land an 18lb cod from the Quarry Hole at Newbiggin.