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Historic maps of Harswell and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Harswell maps
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Holme-On-Spalding-Moor| Hayton| Market Weighton| Burnby| Londesborough| Goodmanham| Nunburnholme| Hotham| Pocklington| Newport| Warter| South Cave
Harswell area books
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Chilhood Memories of Sancton And Arras Wold Farm
My memories of Sancton are happy childhood ones, my grandmother lived here from 1901 and when she moved to Leeds many years later I was taken back to Sancton to visit my aunt and uncle Albert and Mary Lund who lived at Arras Wold and worked on the farm there for all their working lives. The countryside was beautiful and my best memories are of there as I loved all the animals that were on the farm. My aunt knew all the local people whom we visited regulary while I was there and we always walked into the village of Sancton as lots of friends still lived there. My aunt and uncle were married at All Saints' Church there and when sadly they died (my aunt in Dec 1991 and uncle 3 months later in Mar 1992) they were both buried at All Saints' Church. I still go occasionaly and visit Sancton, it's a beautiful little village and I reminisce of my time spent there when I was a child.... Read more
Bungalow Farm Hull Road North Newbald
My husband, Bill Carr & I moved to Bungalow Farm with two of our sons, Michael & James, in August 1984 from Market place South Cave. Denis, our eldest son had bought a cottage in Broomfleet with a girlfriend, and moved there about the same time. Bungalow Farm is situated high on the hill one mile out of North Newbald village and one mile approximately the other way from High Hunsley crossroads, towards Beverley. It is a smallholding with buildings and a 5-bay dutch barn, which unfortunately blew down in the severe gales of Christmas 1997. When we moved there we had a Jersey cow called Daisy, who had a gentle nature and was very playful, especially with our collie dog, they used to play chase-me all around the field, until they were both worn out and then they would lay together in the field in the sunshine. We also had a few goats and chickens at that time too. We kept... Read more
Escrick Park Gardens - Market Gardens - 1950 - 1966
My aunt and uncle - Mr and Mrs George Pratt - used to manage the market gardens in Escrick. We had many happy holidays there, and I remember the peaches and apricots growing up the wall, rows and rows of runner beans, greenhouses full of tomatoes and cucumbers etc. They lived in the large house (it could have been a tied or rented house with the job) with 7 of my cousins, who used to work for their father.
My earliest memory is going up on the train and alighting at a small level crossing 'somewhere' (it may have been Saltmarsh) and my grandmother (the only time I remember seeing her) meeting us with other family members. At that time they all lived and worked at Saltmarsh. I still have relatives in the area around York and Wheldrake etc. My grandmother Hannah Richardson nee Gamwell is buried in St Helen's Churchyard, Escrick.
My surname before marriage was Richardson, I can trace my family tree back to 1605 and Mathew Brunyee,... Read more
Four Years Old
My earliest memories were in Fulford, York, at the tail end of the 1960s before my parents moved me to South Yorkshire at the age of six in 1971. My father worked at what was then called the Labour Exchange in York. He was later promoted to a position in ACAS and did very well. He was born and bred in Fulford and my grandmother lived there until she died in 1980. I often wonder how my life would have been if we stayed there. I went to Fulford infant school. We lived on the modern housing estate at the back of the motorway. Mum would pick me up from school in the blue Anglia car. You don't see many of those now. Mum was very young and beautiful. She wore mini skirts in those days. As a little boy I thought that was normal as all women are supposed to be beautiful and wear mini skirts. I would cry at school over the daftest things because I didn't have... Read more
Used to Live Here
My mum and dad ran this pub before we moved to Canada. I have lots of great memories.
Burials at St Mary's
My maternal grandmother was born in Selby. Annie McMenamin ( McManum or various spellings depending on who wrote the name down !) She lived in Hutchinsons Yard, Selby with her mother Catherine, father Michael, sisters Mary, Winifred, Ellen and brother John in the 1881 census.
I remember as a five year old (1953) visiting my great aunts Mary and Ellen in Selby. They had hens in the back yard of the house and my sister and I always got a fresh boiled egg for tea. Great aunt Mary died in her 90s I believe and is buried in St Marys as is great aunt Ellen. Perhaps my great grandfather Michael and great grandma Catherine are also buried there. I have no idea.
Family stories tell of how great aunt Mary and Ellen were spinsters and they used to hide when the rent man came to call.
Shopping in Selby
The two girls in the lower left corner of this photograph are myself and my sister Elizabeth. We were probably out shopping with my mum, who is not visible on the photograph. I originally saw this photo in the Frith collection "Selby -a photographic history of your town" (W.H.Smiths) which I bought on one of my visits home. I went to the Council School on Flaxley Road and Selby Girls High School. I would like to see any other photos of Selby not in this collection, if anyone knows of any. I would particularly like to see one of the old Clock Cafe which was in the centre of Gowthorpe. I remember walking round the Abbey after we had been swimming at the baths, the Queen visiting to distribute Maundy money, Brownies and Girl Guides in the Hawden Institute, going to the 'pictures' at the Ritz on Scott Road on Saturday, ballet dancing classes with Vanda Dykes, going on picnics down Peppermint Lane (off Flaxley Road), cycling over the canal... Read more
