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Featherstone
I was born in Featherstone in 1956 and lived there until 1962 when we moved to Hampshire. My dad was also born there. We lived at 46 Market Street and my grandparents lived at 64 Featherstone Lane, on the corner of Gordon Street. I believe my great-grandparents lived in Featherstone Lane too. My grandfather (Arthur Haigh) was a miner all his life. He played rugby for Featherstone Rovers, 1921-1929, and was one of the original senior team.
I only have the vaguest of memories of most of my life there, and of later visits, but then others are very vivid. Most seem to focus around food! I have recollections of a shop at the end of Market St., run ...read more here
A memory of Featherstone contributed by Carole Steele
Growing up in North Featherstone
I remember a happy childhood, playing in the streets with my best friends Joyce Dean, Linda Perry & Maureen Beaumont amongst many, we had quite a large gang,
playing rounders or sitting around telling ghost stories, we also used to take peoples babies for a walk and go to Pontefract Park.The school we attended was Gordon Street and my favourite teacher as I grew older was Mr Kearsley. I remember going to the Working Mens Club and having crisps and Pop and the annual trip to Scarborough or Bridlington. My favourite memory was bonfire night and my Dad would be buying crackers for weeks before hand and we would collect wood, my mam made toffee and hot peas and we baked ...read more here
A memory of Featherstone contributed by hilary hopton
You are dead right
It is Green lane but I remember this spot as Cressys Corner,my dad Bill Atkinson used to sit on the seat during the day Until the Green Lane Club opened ,Then after dark it was a favorate spot for us to gather,As IRecall lBill Major Colin Jaques Keith Bullock Carl Farington Pat Sutton to name but a few ,I live in Retford now and when I am it the area I always drive up Green lane ,and apart from once meeting Ian Dransfield I have never seen any one that I used to know.
A memory of Featherstone contributed by Brendan Atkinson
A Good Time To Be Living In Featherstone
I was 10 when Featherstone Rovers beat Wigan and Leigh in getting to the Wembley final. We lived in the school house immediately opposite the entrance on Post Office Road. What a wonderful period in history of the town.
I was born on Vicarage Lane and schooled at Regent Street and then the Common Junior School. Eventually Normanton Grammer school.
I have wonderful memories of the town despite it being a pretty grim place.
I still visit the town whenever I return to Yorkshire, but never recognise anyone despite the town being largely unchanged.
Neil Wilford. neil.wilford@tiscali.co.uk
A memory of Featherstone contributed by neil wilford
Extracts From Castleford & West Yorkshire books
Of Queen’s Park’s 43 acres, thirteen came from the two landowners, and a further parcel was purchased from the Earl of Crewe in 1904 to provided a park keepers’ cottage, a bandstand and a pavilion. By 1909 a splendid bowling green was a new attraction, and in 1949 new greenhouses were constructed.
An extract from from"Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories".
named after the colour of the soil, used to be a narrow winding road; but with the development of the Parkhill estate in 1947, a cutting was made through here to provide quicker access.
An extract from from"Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories".
Only a few miles away from the industry of Castleford, Ledsham village has remained an oasis of tranquillity. The working farm on the left gives the visitor a welcome view of unchanging rural life. The 8th- century All Saints’ Church was renovated in 1871.
An extract from from"Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories".
Two mighty rivers, the Aire and the Calder, join at Castleford, and water power began the industrial revolution in this old Roman settlement. Here the Aire used to drive the grinding wheels of the Queen’s Mill (centre); it was taken over in 1921 by the Natural Food Company, led by the health innovator Dr Thomas Allinson, who firmly believed that bread was better for you ‘wi’ nowt taken out’. The company still occupies the mill, but the water wheel that provided so much power turned for the final time in 1973. The Aire and Calder Navigation Company was formed near here in 1698, and canals opened in 1775 and 1826.
An extract from from"Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories".
The clock above the Market Hall (centre) was a favourite rendezvous point for many courting couples on their way to the theatre and cinemas. On the left many of the shops remain, while opposite the library is one of the main entrances to the new Carlton Lanes shopping centre. The sculptor Henry Moore, the son of a miner, was born in 1898 at 30 Roundhill Road. Bricks from the house, demolished in 1974, now form a wall around a commemorative garden.
An extract from from"Wakefield and the Five Towns Living Memories".