Doncaster Road c1965, Goldthorpe
Doncaster Road c1965, Goldthorpe Ref: G110011
Memories of Doncaster Road c1965, Goldthorpe
Childhood Memories
I came upon the website by accident and although I don't live far away now I started to remember my childhood days there. Born and brought up in Goldthorpe by my parents who both went to the Salvation Army I have many happy memories of playing on the market stalls. They could be anything in our imaginations, house, bus, pirate ship, whatever we wanted tham to be. We never thought of damaging them or destroying them, for after the war we didn't have many toys and made our own amusement. Another special place was the Empire picture house on a saturday where we used to pay 1d (one old penny) to go to the matinee. The local policeman was always on hand to keep an eye on us (I think we called him bobby Dick? if my memory serves me right). Most weeks it would be Roy Rodgers with Trigger his horse and I remember it always used to get to the most exciting bit before saying "to be continued... Read more
Goldthorpe
Pauline's memories of the market stalls reminded me as well.... swinging on the cross bars especially. I also went to the Saturday matinees. We got a little card stamped each week. Our main amusement was to get cardboard boxes from the shop (usually Vaughans? at the end of Kelly St.) to flatten out and slide down the railway bankings. These were, of course, disused and a great place to play. Often, 'dens' were to be found and you wondered who had been on your 'patch' to make a den, if it had been left empty. Also the lanes and allotments beyond King Street leading towards Hickleton pit were a vast area to explore and play. My dad had some allotment land down there, near Oscrofts with their lovely flowers, so much of my playtime was there as well. I'm not old enough to remember the knocker-up, but remember being on Dad's shoulders above a crowd of people at Highgate pit. Dad says it must have been the opening of the... Read more
The Police Station & Cinema Advertisements
The memory from 1948 reminded me of my first and ALMOST ONLY experience of a cell. My parents were friends of Cliff Hayward of Bolton on Dearne and his family. Cliff was a Police constable on the Goldthorpe strength and when for some reason my father took me to meet up with Cliff at the Goldthorpe Police Station I, being aged 12 or 13 at the time, naturally wanted to see "the prison". This resulted in my being put in a cell for a few minutes, an experience never forgotten. When, years later, I was regularly Guard Commander on night duty at Tidworth barracks in Wiltshire it was the practice, unapproved of course, for the sergeant to catch a few minutes sleep by lying on a bunk in one of the cells and I always remembered my Goldthorpe experience and found it difficult to relax. The moral is beware of the memories you give your children I think.
Cliff Hayward's... Read more
What Happened
To be fair, from what I hear, Thurscoe was a nice place back in the day, but now there's fighting everywhere and Thurscoe is filled with a bunch of hard nuts. Cave woods is a good laugh though, it is the only place that is nice and peaceful, my great nanan's ashes are there.
Goldthorpe & local memories
Read and share memories of Goldthorpe and South Yorkshire inspired by Frith photos.
Our Shop
Yes an old town with lots of my memories as we had the shop on Doncaster Road in the picture.
Good Old Days
My memories were of the club trips, they would have been a lot of people's holidays. Our dad would have been a member of at least four clubs so that meant we got a trip to the seaside, a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps, and the sick bucket if you couldn't travel well. I remember the pit sports days, coming from a big family it was like Christmas in July because I won a lot of races. I remember the matinee club at the cinema, I sang every Saturday and won the competions, I loved it. I remember Walker's fish and chips, Pete's fish and chips, tin can alley, big yard bonfires, Miss Grose at Dearnside, collecting wood for Bonfire Night and the big lads keeping watch so nobody pinched it, scragging Grundie's ( betting shop man's) apples, giving his bulldog sweets while we nicked them, pea picking, and sitting on the wagon at 6 am singing on the way to the pea fields, Horner's shoe shop, my... Read more
Goldthorpe The Miners Welfare Hall
Ooh, I remember going to the Goldthopre Welfare Hall to see musicals staged there by the South Yorkshire Musical Comedy Society in the 1960s when they moved from their former home, the Mexborough Empire Cinema, in 1963, I think it was. I certainly remember seeing 'The Vagabond King', 'White Horse Inn','Chu Chin Chow', 'Rose Marie', 'Naughty Marietta' 'The New Moon' and 'South Pacific' there when Doreen Ward usually took the female lead. Happy memories.
Panto's at The Welfare Hall 1960's
I have just found this site and was amazed at the photo of the Welfare Hall circa 1960. My dad, Henry Dilkes, and his great friend Sid Robinson were the mainstays of the pantos in the early 1960s, with Henry mainly being the comic/Dame with Sid being the straight man, but with a fab singing voice. I have a few photos of the casts if anyone wants to see them. Does anyone also remember them? Emily Bradley was usually Prince Charming and the work/rehearsals were a delight to watch as a youngster from the wings. I attended Dearneside, after Bolton Primary Junior school, and had great memories of our young football team, Bolton Dynamoes, which played at Wath Sports Ground (The Pavilion, where we later lived in the mid 1960s. We also played a TV Allstars team for charity, which included Freddie Garrity, Albert Quixall, Bob Stokoe, Harry Gregg in goal, and Charlie Mitten. Good old days! Does anyone else remember them?
Another Goldthrope Lad.
I have just read the above comments and would like to hear from any Goldthorpers.
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Goldthorpe in The Fifties.
I was born in 1946 and lived in Manor Avenue. Cricket with dustbin lids propped up with a house brick in the "backins" were our stumps and we played from dawn to dusk during the summer holidays...except during Wimbledon when we played tennis without a net.
Bagnall's field on the corner of Straight Lane opposite the shops, and the old farm next to the fire station. Being in the chippy opposite Travis's corner shop and watching the guy frying suddenly hare off down the road carrying his fireman's gear as he ran.
Barnburgh Colliery sports day at the Welfare ground.
Goldthorpe Infants School...headmistress was Miss Anderton I think. Junior School next door and the thugs who were our teachers.
Dearnside when JKL Davies was headmaster...we called him Jekyll behind his back.
Dondo, the eccentric art teacher with his french beret but no strings of garlic.
The weekly matinee every Saturday morning when Reg Jackson was manager. I used to produce a sort of variety show before the films started for... Read more
