Station Corner c1955, Holme-On-Spalding-Moor
Station Corner c1955, Holme-On-Spalding-Moor Ref: H270012
Memories of Station Corner c1955, Holme-On-Spalding-Moor
Stephensons Shop
The house on the left, when I was a child in the 60's was Stephensons Shop. We called there for sweets on our way down to Water End to visit relatives.
Stephenson's Shop
In 1939 this shop was owned by Mr and Mrs Hodgson. They were relatives of Geoff Foster who still lives in the village. I last made a purchase from Annie Hodgson in 1948. I last saw the Hodgsons in 1952 on returning from service in Malaya. I love Holme and still make regular visits.
Poplar Farm on The A614
My aunt Joyce Blacker (nee Watson), and uncle Earnest used to live here, along with my cousins, Christine, Pauline and Magaret. I think it was next to a garage with a cafe or something. They had sheep and pigs on the farm, and there was an old well in the garden that was said to be haunted by a girl that had fallen in and drowned. My cousins and I used, when my parents brought us up to Yorkshire to see my gran and grandad Watson, use the back way across the fields and over ditches to get to where my grandparents lived at Caville Hall and later when the Hall had to be demolished because the cellars, that had been built over the old moat of the older Hall, filled up with water making the Hall unsafe, Caville Cottages. ( I only have one picture of the Hall when it was an old single story building. My mum(Betty) and her 6 brothers and sisters were brought up in Caville... Read more
Ben Howdels Blacksmith Shop
In 1952 I started my apprenticeship as a blacksmith with Ben Howdel. We were situated on the corner of Back Lane and Howden Road. I served my full term of five years, always being the 'Junior' under Percy Riley - who I understand, still lives in the village - and Raymond Johnson from Hayton. For eighteen months I cycled from Market Weighton every day untill I bought a motorcycle - and what a difference this made! We did work for most of the farmers for miles around, and in the five years I spent there, farming practices changed rapidly. I spent the rest of my working life as a blacksmith - but those first five years were not easy! Does anyone remember those days?
Not Quite A Memory, More A Querie
Was just wondering if anyone who knows the history of Gilberdyke has any information on Claytons fold, used to be clayton tractors of Gilberdyke. I am interested to find out the history of the land before the tractor factory, or if anyone knows of anything that happened on the land. A neighbour's little girl keeps saying she can see a man in her room, and I was wondering if she could see someone from a past with the land, her mum's rather distraught and would appreciate any information from the area as we moved here 4 years ago onto the new development which is Claytons fold (I think Scalby Lane runs along it, the Wards hotel is right next door). Many thanks, Ashleigh x
Holme-On-Spalding-Moor & local memories
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Station Lane
The first smallholding on the right hand side was where my relatives lived - Richard and Nellie Wiles. The house is still very much the same, but with some extensions to the house itself. The outbuildings are exactly the same. The next house was my grandparents' smallholding. The outbuildings are still there but can hardly be seen from the road. I remember the Station Master was a Mr O'Keefe. I still have a cousin living in Station Lane. Happy memories.
RAF Station For 76 Squadron
The station was the take-off location for aircraft on a bombing raid to Germany. Squadron Leader Francis William Scott Turner departed 1843 on 22nd September 1943 and was shot down over Germany, missing and presumed killed on the same date.
I am looking for any information about the aircraft, the squadron and above all that relating to my father, S/L (acting Wing Commander) FWS (Roscoe) Turner.
Paul Bentley's Scrap Yard
I remember visiting Holme -on-Spalding-Moor several times in the early and mid 1960s as a teenage schoolboy to view a yard of very salvageable Edwardian, vintage and 1930's cars which in those days had little monetary or collector's value. The proprietor was an aptly named Paul Bentley, I recall. I particularly remember a ginormous Austro-Daimler from the early 1920s and have often wondered what became of it Mike Day Suphanburi Thailand
