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Memories of Walking Past in 2000
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Memories of my Home
Hi. I moved into the Gamecock in 1963 with my parents Norman and Jean Bennett and my brother Bryan, I was only two years old. My parents were landlord and land lady. Bartons grocers was next door, there was no Gamecock Field as we Know it today and no Grange View. Grange View was built about 1967 and the park was developed early 1970. The Wimpy estate as we know it was built when I was seven. I can just remember the comprehensive been built and the sports centre came a lot later. The park at the back of the pub was named after Tommy Simpson who died at the Tour de France and was born and bred in Harworth, I think.
When I started school, Mrs Swindon was my first teacher and the infamous Miss Rogers was the head!
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Sunday School
To start with, I do not know Harworth, but my grandparents lived there for a while around 1924. I am told they taught at the sunday school, but I think it might have been at a chapel, not the church. Does anyone have an idea if there was a Methodist chapel in the village at that time, and if there would be any records from that period in existance? They were called Knight and lived with relatives called Williams.
Harworth 'Old' Village
The large Horse Chestnut tree to the right was very popular when conkers were in season with boys searching the ground and throwing whatever came to hand at the tree to try and dislodge the nuts that were temptingly out of reach. At school play times serious competitions took place to see who had the best conker. I remember the walled playground being littered with the broken remains. Harworth sits juxtaposed with Bircotes, a sprawling estate of 'pit' houses built after the Great War for the miners at the nearby colliery. Going up the road behind the photographer takes you past the shoe factory towards Bircotes and the main shopping area for both communities. Turning left at the cross roads, the road leads over the railbridge and past the turning to the Glass Bulbs factory, at the time, besides the shoe factory and pit, the only other big nearby employer. Turning right takes you to Tickhill Spital and the county boundary with South Yorks. Straight on leads you through... Read more
Ancestry
My cousin has recently been doing some family tree and has discovered that our family with the name Haslehurst farmed there in the early to mid 1800's at least. I was wondering if there are still any people living in Harworth with the name Haslehurst and if so could let me know.
The Woman my Father Married
I don't know a lot about Blyth, Northumberland, only that for some strange reason I visited an awful lot during my life but thought nothing of it. My current fiancee and I would sit for long periods on the old docks at the bottom of Ridley Street area, eating locally purchased cheeseburgers etc.
I remember once booking a romantic table for two in Blyth, but it was a waste of time - she only potted 3 reds!
Much later in my life I learned that my grandfather, James Barns Chilvers, was lost at sea after leaving Blyth harbour on 25th November 1925, on a collier named Galleon, bound for London. She never made it. Only wreckage of the ship was found.
He was born in Hull on the 16th June 1855. He married my grandmother, Dorothy Rose Chilvers, nee Burns, on March 11th 1901, in Gateshead Registry Office.
My grandmothers side of the family goes back hundreds of years and includes Rabbie Burns, the... Read more
Beautiful Oldcotes
I was born in Oldcotes and we emigrated to Australia in 1959. I remember people when I was young, there was Ms Bridgehams who used to be my teacher in Oldcoates School who I will always remember her with fond memories and then there was Mrs Brown who used to live in Main Street, I used to visit her as a little girl, and Father Athill. As I live in London now I visit Oldcotes and pay my respects. It brings back a lot of memories for me as my father's family (most of them) have now sadly passed away. I would like to know where Ms Bridgehams' and Mrs Brown's graves are so I could visit them. If anyone knows could you kindly let me know. Many thanks Susan
