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Farewell maps
Historic maps of Farewell and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Farewell maps
Farewell photos
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Farewell area books
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Memories of Farewell
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Staffordshire memories
Where I Grew up
I was 4 years old when we as a family moved to no: 6, School Lane, Chase Terrace. We had moved from Wales because my father couldn't find a job there, so he had a job lecturing in the Mining College in Cannock and he also taught at Hednesford College. I remember the lovely snowy winters we had every year and of course the hot summers. I had a lovely childhood there and passed my 11+ 3rd in the county of Staffs to go the Grammer School. But as it happened my grandparents became ill and we moved back to Wales where I still live. M father's name is Dai Moses and I'm sure there is someone out there that either remembers me, his daughter Wyn, or him.
Childhood Memories
Hi there, some of you may know me or my family, at the top end of Pike Lane, or 'Havens Hill' as it was called. Does anyone remember the fish and chip shop and the coal yard in that lane by the way? My memories are of :- Helping Mom and Dad with our suitcases down to the station on the annual holiday and calling at Johnsons newsagent in that little shop on the left. Does anyone remember 'Mr. Riddley' the cobbler? As a 10 year old I was petrified having to go in to 'Stubbs' the butcher, there was something about the way he waved that cleaver about. Then there was the Co-op, with the drapery section, and how Frank use to cut the twist tobacco on the counter, then the money was put into those jars and sent whizzing across the room to the cashier and you waited for your change to return. I was only thinking the other day whilst talking to my son Luke about how... Read more
Ivison's Florist's Shop in The Market Square
My parents had a florist's shop in Market square from 1932 -1962, I can see our Morris van parked on the square, with the Interflora logo & our name clearly shown. I was out in Egypt serving National Service when this photo was taken, but the cars & fashions pictured take me back to that era in sleepy Lichfield. The statue of Dr. Johnson is still in the square, but all the shops have changed & the square is just being resurfaced. I now still have a florist's shop in Bird Street Lichfield. Has anyone any more memories of Lichfield fifty years ago?
Friends in Lichfield
First of many visits to Lichfield which led to my affection with this city, that my fther had spent time in during his RAF days at Lichfield Drome in 1942. Many friends and contacts were made here.
A lovely place! There are many changes now in 2006.
John Yarnall, Rugeley.
Lichfield
Drifted past this page for a first time on a wet Saturday.
In the right hand side of this photo is the The Dolly Posh n Dandy coffee bar. Part clothing, part coke and coffee cafe - a well known hang out, smoking and meeting place for King Edwards and Friary pupils. Anybody else remember this short lived enterprise? Do any other photos exist?
I guess this dates this 1968/9 rather than 1965. Also what a ghastly piece of town centre planning (typical of Staffordshire in the 1960s) the shopping centre was/is - apparently the Victorian buildings that were replaced by this concrete nightmare were full of character and charm.
Foggy Beacon Park
When I was 5 yrs old I can vividly remeber getting lost in Beacon Park in a real pea souper with friends from the farm in the Sandford Street corner of the park and also remember digging old stone jars up from the brook that runs through the park!
More Foggy Beacon Park
I also remember a foggy Beacon Park, probably 1954. I used to live in the Close, my father being a minor canon, and went to a nursery school (Mrs Allen's) on the other side of the park. I think that one of my parents would bring me to the park gates near the Close and then I would walk across the park to school on my own, yes, at the age of four, but we did that in those days. Later I went to St Christopher's School in Alrewas and would take the bus from outside what used to be the cinema just around from the Market Square. I would travel on my own with a friend, Jason Bell, who lived on Dam St and some "big girls" on the bus would keep an eye on us. We left Lichfield at the end of 1954, when I was just 6.
