The Real Coronation Street

A Memory of Cullingworth.

I remember living on Coronation st from 1959 until they were pulled down in 1969, I attended the primary school at the top of Mill street,just a 5 minute walk from home.

I had a wonderful childhood,playing football with my friends in the rec. or collecting birds eggs in the fields and woods around Culling Worth!

I remember steam trains at the station, but they must have been the very last ones after Beecham devastated the railways!

I can also recall "Ted" in his flat railway driver's cap, who lived at the station house with his wife and family.

I remember doing the shopping on a Saturday morning for my mother. She would send us off with our notes for the butcher! (Renae Passman) then passing Saxons paper shop, Wikinsons off-licence on my way round to the green grocers, Mr and Mrs Gibbons.

Too many friends to name them all but Lindsey Hawksworth, Barry Wadsworth, William Brittain and Bernard Hook were the boys and Yvonne Cadman, Janive Sanderson, Elizedeth Hoyle, the girls I recall - all in my class throughout my primary school days

Halcyon days

Stuart Pittock
Now Stuart Shackleton