The Bowling Green c1955, Grangetown
The Bowling Green c1955, Grangetown Ref: G88006
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Eversham Road
Noticed a mention of Baileys shop, my mam worked there for Arthur Baily and I believe his bakery was at one time near the old boys club, we lived in Eversham Road from I think 1948 until I married in 1968. We lived at no 13 for most of the time but about 1969 my mam moved into no 10 after they modernised them.
Grandparents
My grandparents Francis Cuthbert and Lillian (Reece) Conway lived at 109 Birchington Avenue. My mother Mariam Suzzanah lived there for many, many years with her family i.e. Frank, Cath, Winifred, mum, Lilian and baby Kevin. Before that they lived in Bessemer Street. My grandfather worked at the steel works and had served in the First World War. Before my immediate family emigrated to Australia in the early 1960s we were often at my grandparents' home. I remember there was a big grassed area and the bus would do the circle for pick-up. The house had a large back garden in which my grandfather had built a bunker during the Second World War, and he had an extensive vegetable garden, one of my strongest memories is eating fresh rhubarb in a sugar cone on the back step. If you stood on the street and looked right you could see Eston Hills, which we used to climb. My nana died first whilst we lived in England 1961 and my grandfather in 1974,... Read more
So Long Ago, But Never Forgetten
I used to live in Eversham Road and to catch the trolley bus on the corner of Birchinton Avenue and Bolckow road was an every day event. I was just 10 years old when this picture was taken, the car probably belonged to Mr Linclater, the cycle shop owner. Next door to him was the chippy, Blackburns, if I remember well, then there was Lightfoots the newsagents, the butcher's shop, and the Yorkshire Penny savings bank on the corner. Unseen, as it is on the other corner, was Lannie's, the tea room and fresh ice cream shop. Bailey's Bakery on the other side of the road, they had 1 penny Hovis loaves and boy were they great.
I was in the young choir in Saint Matthew's Church, went to school at the Board School and, when I had my pocket money, I would stop at the sweet shop, really a residence with the parlour used as a shop, to get a packet of Kayly and licquerice "straw" to suck it... Read more
