Growing Up In Low Valley

A Memory of Low Valley.

I am Pam Craddock nee Waller. I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Low Valley.

My father Ernest worked at Darfield Main Colliery until the 1980s when he took early retirement and he and my mother Edna came to live here in Ripon to be near to me.

We lived next to St Matthews church where my mother went to school during then 1920s. I myself have many happy memories of being involved in the church myself. I was a Sunday School teacher and enjoyed working with some great children.

We lived in a great little village and remember the little shop run by Mr and Mrs Amos. We could get everything there.

My grandparents Ellen and Emmanuel Bishop known as Nelly and Manny lived down the road in Pitt Street to whom I was very close. Yes even after 48 years away I still look back with fondness