New Mills memories
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Bold Adventerous Friendly Girl From New Mills.
My memories are that of visiting a certain student teacher from St George's Road. Throwing pebbles up at the ladies' window one evening. Wine and cheese at the pub. Little old man at the roadside bench. The Last of the Summer Wine could well have been made in New Mills.
Eddie Hadley
St George's School
Hi, Carol Jakes was soliciting memories from pupils of St George's School in the 50s. I was born in 1940 at Whitle Fold and attended Spring Bank Primary from 1945 to 1947(?) when I shifted to St George's. My memories of those years include sliding on ice slides in the play ground, frozen milk, Mr Neville slapping our legs for not lining up quickly, Mickey Jeffs' basin haircut and "Pingot Lill"'s boy Geoffrey(?) trashing the classroom because it was raining heavily and he wasn't allowed to go home to tend his pet goat!!
Around 1951 I scraped through the 11 plus exam and went to Grammar School (Grammar Grub) and that is another whole story, me being a rebel and heading into my Teddy Boy years.
Anyway, Carol or whoever reads this give me a 'mail and let's chew the fat.
Regards, Alan.
The Early Years!
Hi There
I originally lived in New Mills on the council estate on St George's Rd. I spent many years teaching and designing bridal & cruisewear. I have lived for many summers on Vancouver Island in Canada, and many winters in Colima, Mexico. Would like to hear from anyone who went to St George's Primary School in the 50's,& New Mills Grammar School 1958 - 65.
I hope life has been as good to you as it has to me. Cheers. Carol Y Jakes.
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Happy Days!
I used to live at Spring Villa on the main road in Birch Vale in the 1970s and what fond memories I have from Birch Vale! My three older brothers and I used to walk up behind the house through some farming land and across to the quarry where we would spend many hours exploring the gravel pit pond for pond life, bicycling down the hill, playing in some sort of strange cement pool that was always full of discarded furniture. We also walked up a path/road behind the house and discovered many things along the way, such as another big cement pond, also full of water and furniture where we would occasionally swim. I remember the television tower. One day we came across a hole in the middle of a fenced in pasture and my brothers had me climb down the ladder that extended down this hole...I didn't get very far because it just ended in nothingness! I have always wondered what this place... Read more
Hayfield Railway Station
I remember Father Christmas arriving on the steam train at Hayfield station. He then went to the village hall, where lucky children who had the penny or two which it cost, could see him and get a present. I used to wait on the platform with my brother and all the other children.
My brother once told me to come and see the new train at the station which was called a diesel. He was so excited because it didn't have the noise and smell of the steam trains.
In the summer people from Manchester would arrive on the train to go walking around Kinder. We didn't like these intruders!
The station still had gas lamps which the station master would light. There was also a small shed where the driver and guard could rest and top up whatever they had to carry hot drinks. As children we were sometimes allowed to play in there. We did no harm and never damaged... Read more
Memory of Thomas Anthony Clarke
We are trying to track down our family and we have records that a Thomas Anthony Clarke lived at Lyndhurst, Buxton Road, Chinley and was a Agricultural Hardware Merchant.
If anyone has any information that would help us trace a long lost Great Grandfather you would not imagine how grateful we would be!
His father was Neville and his mother Florence
Thank you
Louise Clarke( Kent)
Joan or Lucy Clarke
Hi, I am just wondering if anyone, anyone at all, remembers a lady called Joan or Lucy Clarke, born about 1921? Her mother was called Elsie May Clarke (as far as I know), I don't know Joan's father's full name... I know Joan was close to her dad or it may have been her grandad. I also know that around the late 1930s she become pregnant (still unmarried at the time) and she gave birth to a son who she called John Clarke. I think Joan had moved by then to Hadfield but I'm not too sure. Joan's mother Elsie I believe changed her name to Barber and later died in Ashton in the early 1970s. I have been trying so hard for ages to find someone that knows this lady and who will be able to tell me a little about her life so please if you know any thing my email address is: mariahcaprice@yahoo.co.uk Thank you...
The Good Times & Bad
The comments by one boy that Mr Cory interfered with him, load of tosh, don't belive him. When I was there I had good times and bad, the teachers were ok, some of them would give you a dig with their fist into you just for fun, you would get a clout of some of them. There were three bullies but we had fun, good fun, two weeks in Littlehampton, great fishing. It has taken some time for me to track down anything about Taxel Lodge, glad to have found it at last. Mr Cory would drop me off up on the moors, never ever did he interfere with me. My hobby was bird watching, it got me out of the school for hours, also it meant I was on my own, great times. A great pity the building has ended up as flats. I never knew what was Mr Cory's first name, does anybody out there know it?
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