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North Thoresby| North Coates| Louth| North Somercotes| Waltham
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My Village as A Child
I was born at Grainthorpe in 1945 at Chapel Hill Cottages to Jim and Ivy Holdsworth
Dad was a Geordie who came to the village in 1943 with the Royal Ulster Rifles. My mother was Ivy Loughton and was brought up by her grandparents Teddy and Margaret Hiscock. Chapel Hill Cottages were next to the main chapel in the village. We had no water in the cottage. Dad fetched it by oxes yoke everynight from a well in the field next to centre house. The cottage consisted of one living room, one double bedroom, a box room which had a single bed in and you couldn't shut the door and a kitchen which you were not able to swing a cat round. I went to Grainthorpe Primary school and was taught by Mrs Kettlewell whose husband ran the local post office. The village had a very close community. As well as the school there were two pubs, the Bricklayers Arms and the Black Horse. There were three... Read more
Childhood
I was born in North Thoresby (Cleethorpes nursing home) in 1950 and spent nine years in the village living in Church Lane. I went to the village school and Sunday School and was also in the choir at the church. I used to help the local farmer G Robinson fetch his cows in for milking and help on the farm during harvest. The summers seemed so long in those days. In 1959 we moved to Scampton.
Can You Help Please.
My mom grew up in Main Road, the family was called Tully, in 1940, she would really love to hear from anybody who has been there for a long peroid of time who will remember any old tales, she wishes to come and stay overnight in a hotel or B&B to catch up on memories, please help me make this special for her as I love her very much 07837167815 betball@hotmail.co.uk Please reply, thank you.
North Coates
I lived on North Coates from around 1959 to 1965. I remember the park, the old naffi near the river, the houses built on your right hand side as you come on to the camp, and the little shop just before. I used to live at 40 Fitties Lane and we used to get the bus to the village school. I have really fond memories of the camp
Topliss Drapers 1882-1975
I wonder if anyone remembers Topliss, 16 Mercer Row? It was there until 1975 when it was taken over by Boyes. It was probably the last shop in Britain to have a "cash railway" for taking customers' payments to the cashier and returning the change. The money travelled in a hollow wooden ball, like a croquet ball cut in half. There is a photo on The Cash Railway Website. Cash ball systems were generally supreseded by overhead wire or pneumatic tube systems.
Pawnshop Passage
My paternal grandparents lived in Schoolhouse Cottages off Lee Street where we occasionally stayed on holidays, Christmas etc. There was an alleyway called "Pawnshop Passage", emerging onto Mercer Row by the bow window in the photograph (Stationers Shop then?), which we children used as a shortcut to the town centre, or perhaps the Playhouse Cinema; when skipping through the passage we used to sing out to hear our voices echo.
My father's first job on leaving school was at a Fish & Chip Shop now called "This Is It" I believe - this would have been in the late 1920's.
Market Hall Tower
Circa 1954 my dad worked with three other men employed by Louth Council on either the rebuild or refurbishment of the top spire of the Market Hall tower. I have about 10 photos taken at the top of the tower during this process. They are available to anybody interested. contact alandavies41@hotmail.com
