You are here:
Brancote
Brancote maps
Historic maps of Brancote and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Brancote maps
Brancote photos
We have no photos of Brancote, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Tixall| Milford| Great Haywood| Stafford| Little Haywood| Hixon| Colwich| Aston| Penkridge| Rugeley| Shallowford
Brancote area books
Displaying 1 of 4 books about Brancote and the local area. View all books for this area
You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Brancote
No memories of Brancote have been shared yet - be the first!
Add your memory of Brancote
or of a photo of Brancote.
Staffordshire memories
Evacuee
I was evacuated to Milford in 1942 and lived with my parents at a bungalow called KENCOT. Father was a teacher at Stafford secondary school.
Sunday Outings
I was born in Stafford to parents who settled there after the war and came from Aberdeen and Newcastle-up-on-Tyne. My family often went to Milford and flew kites that we made or just explored and played hide and seek with each other, with an ice cream from the shop across the road. We emigrated to Australia in 1958.
Bailey Bridge Pontoon - Canal Cruisers.
I built the boat shown on the right hand side of the photograph. Bailey Bridge pontoon MKVI N0.19053 was manufactured by Gee Walker & Slater Ltd, Uttoxeter Road, Derby and sent to Engineers Stores, US Army Depot, Newbury, Berkshire on 29/9/1944. At post-war WD surplus sales, a considerable number of these Bailey Bridge pontoons were bought by Levesley's International and stored at their depot at Alrewas near Burton on Trent. John Dobson, a local boat builder at Burton, began putting cabins on to these pontoons for sale as canal cruisers. I bought the pontoon hull for £18.00, built the cabin to a Dobson design, fitted out the interior and named it 'Agenor'. In August 1950, powered by a British Anzani 4HP outboard engine, she made her maiden voyage to the Inland Waterways Association's first National Boat Rally at Market Harborough on the Grand Union Canal. Subsequent voyages around the Midlands' canals included the Macclesfield Rally in 1953 and the rivers Trent, Severn and Thames.
The Clifford Arms
Ahh, The Drinking Hole!
A 1950s Childhood Memory
I have very fond memories of Great Haywood during the 50s as my sister and I went to stay with our grandmother during the school holidays. We lived near to the centre of Manchester and so to visit this village in the 50s was like entering another world.
Grandma lived on the outskirts of the village in Tolldish Lane and she was quite a reclusive lady. Her husband had died in 1952 and because her cottage was not in the village as such, she kept herself to herself.
The photo, I believe, is of the post office in the village which was kept by a Miss Yelland. My sister and I, and of course grandma, would walk down to the village probably a few times a week. We would buy ice cream and grandma would do her shopping.
The walk would take us perhaps half an hour or so and we would pass certain landmarks on the way. The by-pass was not built then and so the journey... Read more
Summer Holidays
I was born in Brewery Yard, Great Haywood. After the war my mum moved to Notting Hill, London, so in the summer holidays my sister and I would stay at Nan & Grandads in the village. Mum {Eileen Bailey} played the piano in the Fox & Hounds, Stubbs's were the local butchers. I spent a few months at the local school, during the Notting Hill riots. We would come on our own by train, { it was safe in the 50s} then a bus to Shugborough Park, and would walk across the park lugging a rather large suitcase, which my dad had put handles on each end to make it easier for us. I remember going to the pictures in the memorial hall, and a dance now and then. A few of us would play down by the canal, and across the Essex Bridge. Most of the Bailey family are in St Stephen's graveyard. I have very happy memories of Great Haywood, it was then a very pretty place.
Great Haywood
My name was Mackin when I lived in Great Haywood in the 197'0s. We lived in Elm Close for over 5years. When I began to look through the photographs in the Frith Collection and saw the one above, it brought back memories that the actual building shown was a Butchers. I loved living in that area, I used to walk my two Red Setters down by the canal and the river along side Shugborough Hall. Due to personal circumstances I then moved to Bournemouth and now live in Australia. I came to know about the Francis Frith Collection through the magazine "The Best of British" which my husband and I have delivered to Australia every month.
