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Bawtry, South Yorkshire
Bawtry maps
Historic maps of Bawtry and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Bawtry maps
Historic map of Bawtry
Illustrated Victorian map of South Yorkshire
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Bawtry books
Displaying 3 of 23 books about Bawtry and the local area. View all Bawtry books
Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
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Ilkley Town and City Memories
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Yorkshire County Memories
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2 Bawtry photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Bawtry
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I lived here on the RAF camp in a Nissen hut married quarters. I had my first baby in Worksop Hospital. I used to walk from the camp down to the village to collect my weekly RAF wife's allowance further along the road and then pushing the pram would park it outside of the bakers on the small parade of shops... [more]
Shared on 30 January 2009
My parents lived at Sprotborough and were great motorcycle and sidecar enthusiasts although by 1968, the Triumph Speed Twin and sidecar had given way to a Morris Minor, later to be replaced with a Triumph Herald. On Friday or Saturday evenings their favourite outing would be to Bawtry. Parking in the Market Place as in this photograph, they would simply sit... [more]
Shared on 10 March 2007
South Yorkshire memories
This memory goes from 1953 up to the 1960s because our holidays in them days were always at Rossington, staying with Nanna. Me my older brother Alex and my twin brother John loved it. Nanna and Grandad were Jack and Burtha Bird who lived at 57 Haig Crescent. Grandad was a miner like a lot of people in Rossington. One of... [more]
Shared on 28 March 2009
Memories of my childhood in Rossington.
My story starts on the 1st of March 1950, the date of my birth at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. My parents Jack & Mary Flather lived in Old Rossington at 65 Haigh Crescent, living with relatives (Guy) until a house became available for our family to move into. We then moved to 57 Gattison Lane one of the many council houses built... [more]
Shared on 20 June 2008
During the WW2 war my dad was posted at R A F Finningley and we his family lived in the village at a small holding across the road from the school. I can still see in my mind Wilf the owner who lived there too with his wife. Also the geese and poultry and that we had to take a brush... [more]
Shared on 06 February 2007
We lived in Branton upto 1978 for 15yrs in St Vincent's Ave. As children we played in the Windmill at the top of the road, there was a staircase that ran to the top floor and then you went through a hatch onto this top level. The house in front of it was a working farm and was then demolished, a... [more]
Shared on 09 June 2008
My great-great-great grandfather Rev.J.K.Miller was the vicar at this church until 1855 for quite sometime. It was so good to visit the church for the first time in 2008 Summer and to meet the vicar. The village doesn't seem to have changed much. I was touched to see the plaque mentioning the picture window installed in memory of my ancestor.The few... [more]
Shared on 10 January 2009
My father at Doncaster grammar school
My father John Granville Turner attended Doncaster Grammar School in the 1910s. He was born in 1904 so would have started in the early 1910s, I assume. He was for a time a boy soprano at the school. He also spent at least one Christmas at Shibden Hall but there is no record of him there so I wonder if he... [more]
Shared on 07 December 2008
Extracts From Bawtry & South Yorkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Bawtry, inspired by Frith photos.
This view shows a virtually-deserted Market Place at Bawtry, with a 'half-timbered' Morris Minor prominently parked by the old Buttercross. Bawtry was once an important coaching stop on the old Great North Road, where horses were changed on the journey north to Scotland. It had also been an important port on the River Idle since Roman times, linking to the Humber.... [more]
This is an extract from Yorkshire Living Memories.
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Sheffield and South Yorkshire Photographic Memories
Peveril Castle stands on a hill 260ft above the village, yet despite its looks it was far from impregnable; it was even in Scottish hands for a number of years. It was here that Henry II and Malcolm of Scotland reached an agreement to hand Peveril back to the English crown, whereupon Henry had the fortress rebuilt and added a keep.... [more]
This is an extract from Sheffield and South Yorkshire Photographic Memories.
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Sheffield and South Yorkshire Photographic Memories
The caverns at Castleton were, and still are, a popular day out for people from the Sheffield area. Here we have the entrance to the Speedwell Cavern, and Winnats Pass is little more than a track for sheep. Speedwell's history goes back to the 18th century, when a shaft was driven underground in the search for lead ore. The cavern's... [more]
This is an extract from Sheffield and South Yorkshire Photographic Memories.
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