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Historic maps of Birdsall and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Birdsall maps
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Langton| Settrington| Westow| Norton| Huttons Ambo| Malton| Old Malton| Kirkham Abbey| Broughton| Welburn| Rillington| Swinton| Amotherby| Appleton-Le-Street
Birdsall area books
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Memories of Birdsall
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North Yorkshire memories
The West Family
Research into my family history took me and my father to the beautiful villages of Bulmer and Eddlethorpe. It was a very moving experience to see my great-great-great-grandfather's headstone, William West, who my own father is named after. He was a schoolmaster in Bulmer and was originally from Eddlethorpe. I believe his father may also have been a schoolmaster in Eddlethorpe. I would dearly love to trace any living relatives or know more about the West family.
Happy Days
I have happy memories of going down to the swing bridge in the school holidays when we visited our grandma in Huttons Ambo, long summer days going down to Leamans' shop for a block of ice cream and running back up the hill before it melted. Grandma Allen lived at Wolds View Cottages, we would go with her to clean the church and would play in the churchyard till she was ready. She seemed to always to be cleaning for people, she was widowed and lived there with our uncle Steve, he would take us up and down the lane on his tractor. Went to the school there for a while in 1955 when our mother was ill, Mrs Ronald was the school mistress and lived two doors away from Grandma's. Lovely little village which has not changed, and so reminds me so much of my childhood whenever I go back.
Very Happy Times
I spent the early years of my childhood living in the Station House at Huttons Ambo,my dad was the signalman there. I attended the village school from 1958 - till it closed 1962 (?). Both my parents have unfortunately died in the last 4 years, but I still go back to Huttons Ambo when I get the chance. The memories of the steam engines chugging past my bedroom window, the warmth of the coal fire in the signal cabin and the fishing in the Derwent near the swing bridge are vivid. Everybody wishes at some point they could turn back time, this is where I would go, given the chance, without any hesitation!
Gowing up in Huttons Ambo
I grew up in Huttons Ambo and my mum still lives there today. What a wonderful carefree childhood. We lived in Low Hutton for a few years, my mum (Eileen Routledge, brother Simon and sister Sarah), and then moved to High Hutton and lived next door to my Gran and Grandad Gibson. We used to play down by the river and the swing bridge and loved standing in the middle making it swing, on school summer holidays we would take off with a picnic every day and go through the fields making bale dens. We had so many places to go play and hide. I was baptised in the village church. My brother went to the village school but it closed down before I started although I do remember the school teacher Mrs Ronald, she carried on living there after it closed. Leaman's shop was a must every Sunday morning after Sunday School to spend our pocket money on sweets, black jacks, gob stoppers etc. I remember the... Read more
Camping by The Derwent
I spent my early years (1951 - 1960) camping by the Derwent between Huttons Ambo and Kirkham Abbey. They were wonderful years and very rich in memories. I have wonderful memories of the swing bridge and as a child being frightened to cross it, my father always seemed to make it 'move' when we were about half way across.
I remember boating down to Cherry Island on the Malton side of the railway viaduct, fastening up there and spending a good days fishing. Crossing on the steam train to Scarborough the other day the river now seems to have become much more vegetated.
We used to get our water from a pump at the roadside at Menethorpe and fill a milk churn, which used to last us a couple of days.
I remember an old cottage on the south side of the Derwent just west of the swing bridge, the cottage is now demolished, the people here used to swim in the river and seemed to live on eels which... Read more
Childhood Memories Of Huttons Ambo
Huttons Ambo was my mothers birthplace, she lived in Carr Cottages in Low Hutton. Her surname was England, her brother Sidney ran the farm, another brother Wilson was the much loved postman for the area, and her sister Violet worked as cook for the late Colonal and Lady Starky at High Hutton Hall. My cousin Nancy still lives in Low Hutton near the swing bridge. My mother's married name was Fenner and as my dad was in the army, my mum, my sister Rosemary and I used to spend much of our time at my gran's, Rosemary went to the village school. We loved to paddle in the beck and run free on the hillsides and wave to the trains, much like the "railway children"! I am now in my sixties but still cherish the memories of beautiful Huttons Ambo.
Church Going Memories.
I lived in Malton for many years and as a schoolboy sang in the church choir. Services alternated on Sundays between St Leonard's Church (the one with a spire) and the older St Michael's church in the Market Place. St Leonard's was eventually transferred to the Malton catholic following as diminishing membership of the Church of England Church could not support both buildings.
