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65 Year Old Resident, Looking For Reunited Friends Please Read

Hello, my name is John Smith. I used to be a previous resident in the Thrintoft area during my chilhood. I would like to re-associate or contact some of my old companions from the area. Thrintoft is the only place I have great memories of in my younger days and I am looking for people to share them with or to speak to any of my old friends thank you.

PS. I lived there for about 10 years from 1948 to 1958.

Birthplace

I was born at The Mount Maternity Hospital in Northallerton on 21st September 1960
we were living at Pickhill village at the time, we later moved to Hewitson Hill farm
and moved from the area in 1962

South Parade

I was born in Northallerton in 1952. My father was a cousin of the Smirthwaites and therefore worked in the garage that was once where Argos now stands. My mothers family were Atkinson's and they lived in South Parade. There were 6 children in the family (2 girls and 4 boys). They lived there during WW11 and my mother has fond memories of the time she spent in that house.  Her parents were McCabes and lived in the Nags Head Yard. Two aunts had the 2 little houses next to The Nags Head. One is now a clothes shop and the other one has been knocked down to accommodate the roundabout. I went to Mill Hill School and was very happy there. We left Northallerton in 1961 when we moved to Richmond, but I have lovely memories of life in Northallerton where I was surrounded by a large and close family.

The Court House Etc

I want to write mainly about the Court House, circa 1937, but some later memories have crept in. I was born in L'Espec Street. My grandmother lived in South Parade, opposite the Atkinson's house already mentioned elsewhere. Before the Court House was built (by Tom Willoughby, I believe) it was possible to walk from L'Espec Street, diagonally across the field it was subsequently built on, to the far end of the back garden of my grandmother's house where you had to scale the wall, before dashing into the conservatory, making a lot of noise, to be given a cuddle and a pink sugar mouse to eat by Aunt Ada, while grandmother looked on disapprovingly as it was guaranteed 'to spoil my dinner'. Born in 1845 or 1846, she lived to be 92 and had once been Matron of the Workhouse. She felt that having pigeons on the house roof was a 'bad sign' betokening imminent death, and would go into the yard waving a feather duster fixed to a bamboo... Read more

Marwood Family

I was born at my grandparents' house, Water End, Brompton on the 30th October 1924. My father was Joseph Christopher Marwood - always known as 'Chris'. Our home was Malpas House, Brompton. My Mother was from Margate in Kent. I attended Brompton School and later Northallerton Grammar School. In my early years we had two linen mills in Brompton and a variety of shops. We moved from the village in 1936 when my father and one of his cousins built their houses on Brompton Road. I think this is now Northallerton Road.

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