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Kidsgrove, Staffordshire
Kidsgrove maps
Historic maps of Kidsgrove and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Kidsgrove maps
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Kidsgrove books
Displaying 2 of 2 books about Kidsgrove and the local area. View all Kidsgrove books
Staffordshire Photographic Memories
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Uttoxeter Living Memories
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Memories of Kidsgrove
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Of the ten years spent living in Biddulph I and my siblings, Pam, Linda, Albert and Wendy, spent many hours playing amongst the rocks and the grass around the folly. Many battles were fought among ourselves as to who was to be the King or Queen of the Castle. Fond memories ....
Chris Chester.
Shared on 21 December 2008
Our Dad used to take us for a walk up to Mow Cop Castle on a sunny Sunday. We would set off from Talke with our bottle of pop and a jam butty and walk along the canal for a while then through the lanes in Scholar Green past the Three Horseshoes then up the steepest hill to the Castle. We... [more]
Shared on 08 October 2006
Staffordshire memories
As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of Talke which was demolished during the mid 1970s.
As it is today, you would not realise that this was... [more]
Shared on 18 August 2009
As a child I was terrified of the churchyard, we had to walk past it to get to Wilson Way where my Nan Lizzie Grocott lived. It wasn't so bad in the summer but in winter when it got dark early we would get off the bus opposite the Church and it would loom up like a big dark monster as... [more]
Shared on 08 October 2006
Every year we would go to Pooles on the High Street to get yellow fishing nets so that we could go and collect tadpoles from ponds around the area. We would deliberate for a good while over what colour nets to get but we always ended up with yellow because our Dad said they showed the tadders up best.
Tiko Bakery... [more]
Shared on 08 October 2006
As a child I grew up close to Biddulph Old Hall and spent many hours playing around it and listening to stories of an old lady who was a neighbour and who had grown up at Biddulp Old Hall as the child of the Butler/Cook. She was very proud of this and spoke of a red chair in the shape of... [more]
Shared on 29 June 2009
We arrived in England on 15/12/1988. My hubby Stephen and I were to be married on 7th January 1989 in Biddulph. I was amazed at the size of Heathrow Airport and for the first time in my life, I saw an English taxi, the ones we only see in pictures in South Africa. Mom Ivy, Dad Roy and sister-in-law Helen fetched... [more]
Shared on 03 March 2009
In the 1970s I lived in the Old Vicarage and remember being able to view the church from the house. My fondest memories are a lovely gentleman named Tom who used to take me to the shop each week when (I think) he collected his pension. He would always buy me Smiths Salt and Shake crisps - and even to this... [more]
Shared on 08 February 2009
Extracts From Kidsgrove & Staffordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Kidsgrove, inspired by Frith photos.
Staffordshire Photographic Memories
Kidsgrove is situated within the North Staffordshire coal field, and it was at a mine in the area in 1837 that deep mining was being carried out at 975ft below the surface. The deepest mine at this time, however, was at Apedale, where men were working at depths in excess of 2,000ft.
This is an extract from Staffordshire Photographic Memories.
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Kidsgrove is situated within the North Staffordshire coal field, and it was at a mine in the area in 1837 that deep mining was being carried out at 975ft below the surface.The deepest mine at this time, however, was at Apedale, where men were working at depths in excess of 2,000ft.
This is an extract from Staffordshire Pocket Album.
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Down the Trent Photographic Memories
The town's first inhabitants were men who worked for 11 years in the 18th century constructing the Trent & Mersey Canal's nearby Harecastle tunnel. This is still the main road, though its cobbles have been obscured by tarmac. It is unfortunate that today four of the seven upper-storey bay windows have now been replaced - without their bays - and some of the properties... [more]
This is an extract from Down the Trent Photographic Memories.
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