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Historic maps of Creswell and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Creswell maps
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Whitwell| Clowne| Langwith| Upper Langwith| Barlborough| Bolsover| Shirebrook| Harthill| Worksop| Staveley| Killamarsh| Kiveton Park| Anston| Budby| Wales| Eckington
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School Days
I lived in Ridgeway, Langwith Junction. Mum would give me a shilling to go to the pictures matinee at the Empire on Saturday morning. It cost 7 pence to go in and 5 pence for sweets, it would be packed with kids, you coudn't hear the film for noise, but what fun. Then out of the pictures and up to railway loco on Eland Road to watch the wagons go up the tipper and emptied into the engines below. Then home, to put on old cloths and get swimming trunks on, a bottle of water, bread and drippimg sarnies and go up to the railway station, on to the bridge and watch trains go under the bridge, and we would stink of smoke. Then into the quarry for a swim, we would make a raft and dive in off it. There would be newts in the water and frogs, but we just played, ate our sarnies and had loads of fun.
Graham Launders
The Sad Day my Mamma Died
We, the family, had expected to be going to a wedding, as my Mamma had been a widow since she was 39 years. She was now 60 years old, she had two daughter Ethel and Emma, 15 years and 13 years, when their father died. She had met with Tom, who was a lovely man, and she loved him very much. The day started with me going off to school (the Hardwick Street Junior School). My mother was taking my Mamma to try on some dresses for her wedding at Alice Clarke's on Outram Street. They both found something that suited and had them put aside. They then went shopping to The Market and Co-op shop. On the way home they were going to call at Forest Lodge Council Office, to see about a bungalow they had been offered by the council, for Mamma and Uncle Tom to live in, he already had a council House near Willow Bridge Lane. My mother, father (Mr and Mrs R Beresford) and of... Read more
Lady Lea?
Does anyone remember a bridge to the quarry under Lady Lea Lane? I think it was for transporting sand from the quarry to the canal. There used to be a carving of as "castle" under the bridge carved into the brickwork. Any story known about it? It was near the farm. Is the quarry at Haggonfields school still existing? there were some dynasaur footprints found there in the 1930's.
Welbeck Colliery Village, Now Know as Meden Vale
My Grandparents moved to Welbeck Colliery Village about 1926, when my mother was 10 years old, and stayed in the same house at the bottom of Elkesley Road until they went into care in the 1970s.
My parents did their courting round Carburton Lakes in the 1930s and got married in Warsop Church in June 1945. I was born in January 1947, and my mother was stranded at her parents' house for a few weeks because of the snow with me sleeping in a drawer.
During the 1950s I sometimes went to Welbeck School for a week or two if my mother was ill. Grandma would turn my cold school milk into hot Horlicks, passing it through the railings as their garden adjoined the school playground.
We always spent Christmas at Welbeck, coal fires, side oven, saucepans on the fire, a cold pantry under the stairs with a "meat safe" (they didn't get a fridge until the mid-60s), a freezing cold outside toilet next to the enormous... Read more
Shopping Memories.
This photograph shows two ladies chatting together in the foreground. On the right in the floral dress is my mother Mrs Beatrice Farnsworth. My family have been farmers in the locality for three generations. My mother's car is parked on the road just behind her. The shop to the side is Perham Cox, which was a family grocer, which also delivered groceries to our house on a weekly basis. The other lady is Mrs Jean Salmon who was also married to a local farmer. The way shopping was done in those days involved parking at the top of Bridge Street and moving the car down the hill as each shop was visited. This is now a pedestrian area. The only shiop I can see to be relatively unchanged is Hardy's which has changed hands but still sells glass, china and fancy goods. At ths time most of the shops in Bridge Street would be family owned and run - there was Deville's chemist, Perham Cox grocery, Atherton's shoe shop and Skinner... Read more
Matthews Opticians
To the left of this photo, the first shop you can see was Reg Matthews opticians. You can just make out the entrance and the window above which is a V shape. As a trainee dispensing optician working there around 1971, I used to sit at this window and look down on Bridge St. Happy memories. The business was later taken over by G. Gilbert (who'd previously been a partner) and he's still there today to the best of my knowledge.
Deville's chemist was the shop next door - the one with the canopy blind.
Family
The man walking behind the two ladies and carrying what looks like a picnic hamper is I think, my father - Dennis Davis. Farther back in the picture are two women, one pushing a pushchair and a child running in front, this may be my grandmother, mother, baby sister and myself. I would love to be able to zoom in on this picture.
