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Primrose Valley Store And Cafe
When this photo was taken my grandfather Horace Smart was running this shop. I was living in the flat above the shop with my parents and brother Ralph. We enjoyed living here and having the whole of the valley to play in, in the winter when only the residents lived here when all the tourists had gone home.
Any Info?
I dont actually have a past memory of this building. I recently visited Filey and stumbled across this building in one corner of a modern caravan park. The building has just been abandoned and seemed to be empty for a while but had a strong sense of once being a busy place. Does anyone know anything about it?
North Yorkshire memories
Memories of The Close, Primrose Valley
My father built a caravan just after the war, we took it to Primrose Valley in 1946 and sited it in The Close after negotiating the rent with Mr Smart who was the manager, also the same family as the shop owner. I am sure it was the first new caravan on the site after the war. As a young boy I had my early morning wash at the tap in the middle of The Close. We used the Smart's shop and the small amusement arcade. The swimming pool was not in use in the early years. There were no caravans on the cliff tops. What memories!
The Cottages
The cottage nearest to the telegraph pole was my grandmother's. My uncles Ted and Bob lived there with her until they moved to Woodbine Farm, Langtoft. After they left, gran moved in with my family at the other end of the village, Meadow View, and Uncle Cliff and his family moved in until they in turn moved to the farm at the bottom of the village. We think that the cottage at the forefront of the photo belonged to Geoff Bowes and family, or Willy Olden who mended bikes. Ted Dobson also lived in the cottages and most definitely the little brown one next to my gran's belonged to a lady called Tilly Biggins and nobody passed her house without being questioned as to where and what were you doing there.
Evacuees George And Jennie Barker
My brother and I were evacuees for 2 years. We stayed with a wonderful family, Mr and Mrs Braithwait and their daughter Eileen. My brother George went back many times as he loved it there, as he had got very on with a 5-year-old boy and they were always together. My brother tragicallydied in 1954. I went back to Gristhorp about 12 years ago to see this little boy (his name was Bobby, I have forgotten his surname). We had a wonderful time chatting about the past, I don't know why it took me so long to go back there. BUT four months after seeing him I had a phone call to say he had died. I often think, did my brother send me there to say goodby for him?
Creamery Cottage
My uncle, aunt and cousin used to live a ramshackle cottage just off Bridlington Street - called Creamery Cottage. Probably to the left of this photo and further back. It had a patch of grass in front, quite close to what was the village institute. It may in fact have been thatched (this is the late 1950s). The story was that it was built on an old graveyard for monks and that bones would sometimes be dug up in the garden. There was a butcher over the road who would kill the pigs early in the morning, with quite bloodcurdling squeals.
My Mum's Side
My Mum's side of the family came from Hunmanby. A place called Stonegate. My Uncle worked at Butlin's I heard and Mum left there just before the war of 1939.
Her parents before her etc lived there too. Postal's Yard, If anybody knows more please contact me via Justanumbernow@aol.com Thanks
