Heptonstall memories
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I Lived Here
This was the first home I ever knew and remains, to this day, the one I hold as the true definition of 'home'. Waterloo House was where I was brought as a newborn in June 1974, and where I lived so happily until 1980 when we were, sadly, forced to sell up and leave. I have countless memories, from toboganning down the fields in the deepest snow ever (which sometimes blocked the doors and entirely covered the downstairs windows - my dad having to climb out of the upstaris to dig us free) to standing in the sunshine waiting for my daddy to return from work over the crest of the hill along the road.
I believe the house to have been haunted, quite extensively. Certainly not one of my family can report that nothing unusual happened to them while they lived there. But then thats personal opinion. What do you believe?
And also worthy of note - the view from behind the house is surely one of... Read more
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The Railway Runs by Their Doorstep
41 years of their 50 years of married life, Mr & Mrs Joshua Turner of 1 Station Cottages, Hebden Bridge had more than 200 trains a day passing by their doorstep, the trains never caused them any trouble. Their home was just below the platform of Hebden Bridge Station. Mr & Mrs Turner were natives of Halifax. They had 13 children. Two of their daughters served in the Womens Land Army.
Wadsworth Joyce
I was born derrick wadswoth, but never knew my mother.Iwas adopted by Cyril&Dorothy wright,ifound out this from my mate.Ihave recently found my birth family,and found I have 1brother 1 sister 1 half brother and 3 half sisters.
Croft Farm
My memory is a life time! I first came to Croft Farm, just above Lumbutts when I was 18 months old. My dear, dear Aunty Kath and Uncle Geoff lived there then. She was my mother's, sister's, sister-in law - so absolutely no blood relation to me! But both Aunty Kath and Uncle Geoff turned out to be better than my own parents to me. Oh! don't get me wrong, mum and dad were good, but dad died when I was 13, and mum never recovered. Aunty Kath and Uncle Geoff picked up where they left off. He gave me away when I got married.
There are far, far too many memories for me to write down here. I spent all of my summers at Croft Farm, and I thank God every day for them. There was walking and exploring on the tops, with the Wareing children, there was milking in the mornings and evenings, collecting eggs, haymaking, riding on the hay cart and on the tractor, the silence... Read more
Ancestry From Luddendenfoot
I am trying to find out about my family who came from L/Foot, The person it all starts with is called John Henry Musgrove wife Amy and daughters May & Dora, John moved from Nottingham, John who was my grandfather worked on the railway as a guard in the 1900s, They lived in Vale street where he joined the sherwood foresters in WW1. I think they where married in Sowerby St Peter. I would be very greatful for any information. I will try to put a photo of these people.
Thank you
Broad Street, Todmorden
My dad was born on Broad Street in Todmorden in 1913. I visited there from Canada in 1983 and again in 1999 to see the house and as of that time, it was still standing. I would have loved to have seen the inside, but didn't have the nerve to knock on the door. The whole family left in 1923 for Canada.
Sharon
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