----- Original Message ----- From: <Carolgriff@aol.com> To: <PUTMAN914@aol.com>; <DUR-NBL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:47 AM Subject: [genealogy] Re: [DUR-NBL] (no subject) > bear in mind lots of South Shields people thought nothing > of crossing the river to Tynemouth etc to get married- no idea why but they > did! > > carol As a family growing up near South Shields in the 1940s, one of the exciting trips that we sometimes undertook was take the Economic bus to S. Shields, and then the ferry across the Tyne and back. Always new sights and smells, great fun and almost like going to sea. I can imagine that there could have been something quite exotic about getting married across the water. Though I doubt whether the ferry Captain would have been licensed to perform marriages. :-) Cheers, Tim S.