Goldenhill, High Street c1955
Goldenhill, St John's Church c1955
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Every year we would go to Pooles on the High Street to get yellow fishing nets so that we could go and collect tadpoles from ponds around the area. We would deliberate for a good while over what colour nets to get but we always ended up with yellow because our Dad said they showed the tadders up best.
Tiko Bakery was at the top of Elgood Lane (Church Lane) behind the Swan and we used to walk past ever so slowly just so that we could smell the bread and cakes cooking, on warm days we could still smell it as we turned up Wilson Way to my Nan's house.
Shared on 08 October 2006
As a child I was terrified of the churchyard, we had to walk past it to get to Wilson Way where my Nan Lizzie Grocott lived. It wasn't so bad in the summer but in winter when it got dark early we would get off the bus opposite the Church and it would loom up like a big dark monster as we crossed the road towards it. My sister and me would grip onto Mum's hand so tight we would get told off. The Church yard backed on to my Auntie Frances' and if we were told to go across and visit her we would only go to the front door because we were terrified of what might be hiding just over that fence in the back garden.
One night at about half past six we walked past the church yard up the lane to go and get the bus home to Talke, we heard an owl hoot and fly across the wall above us, we took off up the lane leaving our Mum and Auntie Jean to run after us with all the shopping and school bags! They were probably as frightened as us but they would never admit it - they still ran though! The Church and Church yard have barely changed since I was small. My Mum and her brothers and sisters went to St Johns School next door to the Church and they all (those that remain above the ground of St John Church) say it has barely changed since the 1930's when they were young.
Shared on 08 October 2006
Staffordshire memories
Of the ten years spent living in Biddulph I and my siblings, Pam, Linda, Albert and Wendy, spent many hours playing amongst the rocks and the grass around the folly. Many battles were fought among ourselves as to who was to be the King or Queen of the Castle. Fond memories ....
Chris Chester.
Shared on 21 December 2008
Our Dad used to take us for a walk up to Mow Cop Castle on a sunny Sunday. We would set off from Talke with our bottle of pop and a jam butty and walk along the canal for a while then through the lanes in Scholar Green past the Three Horseshoes then up the steepest hill to the Castle. We would sit inside the round window at the front and try to see our house in Talke on the other side of the valley. We could see so much on a clear day but never really understood what we were looking at - The welsh Mountains were part of the view and we were always trying to spot the beach in Rhyl, North Wales, (obviously impossible) and Jodrell Bank (where we thought the space men lived) was another part of the view. We would have our jam butty and pop on the grass behind the Castle and then moan all the way home because our legs ached.
If Mum came with us we had to go in the car - a red Austin 7, and take a picnic - more jam butties and pop, then we would walk part of the way back with Mum and look for nice flowers to pick. Dad always picked us up on Scholar Green level then took us for a "run out" to either Cheshire to see Jodrell Bank or to Trentham Gardens for an icecream.
Shared on 08 October 2006
Extracts From Goldenhill & Staffordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Goldenhill, inspired by Frith photos.
Gazing up the street past Wilks Teenage Fashions (left) with the Elkes Cafe above, we can see Barclays Bank. This was built in 1921 on the site of Huggins & Chambers, an ironmonger’s. The ironmonger’s sold Witchem’s firelighters among other products - these must have contributed to the conflagration when the building was burned to the ground in 1920.
This is an extract from Uttoxeter Living Memories.
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The Old Talbot was built in 1527, and is reputed to be the oldest building in Uttoxeter. It survived two fires which badly damaged the town in 1596 and 1672. The coat of arms on the inn sign depicts its name: a talbot, or hound, was the crest of the Talbots, Earls of Shrewsbury. Recent renovations have revealed more of the timber- framed structure.
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In 1642 Charles I was confronted on the approach to the bridge by a contingent of Staffordshire residents asking him to come to terms with Parliament. He ignored their pleas. The new A50 bypass has meant that the bridge is now an attractive stop on the Staffordshire Way.
This is an extract from Uttoxeter Living Memories.
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