Walking past the old Woolies tonight I saw shopfitters at work. I nipped home for the camera. One guy was having a fag outside, so I asked him if I could take a couple of shots through the open doorway.
He told me the new store's going to be a B&M Bargains, kind of like Wilkinsons, or what Woolies used to be.
We looked at the Whitley Bay Football Club fixtures posted on the shop hoarding over the road.
"At least you've got a better team than Middlesborough!" he said.
"First team from the North East to play in the New Wembley," said I.
Whitley FC winning the FA Vase in 2009 was a turning point for the town - an injection of "Let's stop waiting for someone else to change Whitley, and get on with it ourselves". They drove an open-topped bus through the town, with the vase held aloft.
A young guy, curate at St Pauls, I guessed, came over while I was taking photos, and asked the shopfitter what was going on. When I left he was behind me, so we joined up and chatted for a bit. I told him I was into church post-church, networks not institutions, that kind of thing. A happy meeting, I think.
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