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Staffordshire Photographic Memories
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£14
Uttoxeter Living Memories
Paperback
£13
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As a child I was terrified of the churchyard, we had to walk past it to get to Wilson Way where my Nan Lizzie Grocott lived. It wasn't so bad in the summer but in winter when it got dark early we would get off the bus opposite the Church and it would loom up like a big dark monster as... [more]
Shared on 08 October 2006
Every year we would go to Pooles on the High Street to get yellow fishing nets so that we could go and collect tadpoles from ponds around the area. We would deliberate for a good while over what colour nets to get but we always ended up with yellow because our Dad said they showed the tadders up best.
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Shared on 08 October 2006
I went to that school. I went to the nursery and stayed there right up until the year 2000 and then moved away to Scotland. It was a great school.
Shared on 07 July 2009
I remember I was about 10 and Critchilows Corner was a derelict building at this point, probably in 2000, and we used to try get in to see what it was like inside. I moved away but do visit the area from time to time and it's a housing esate now, seems a shame.
Shared on 07 July 2009
Extracts From Newcastle & Staffordshire books
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Staffordshire Photographic Memories
Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street. His father, grandfather, and great grandfather were all butchers, and held various council offices. Between 1552 and 1565, grandfather Richard was a councillor, but was also at different times constable, sergeant and bailiff.
This is an extract from Staffordshire Photographic Memories.
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Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street. His father, grandfather, and great grandfather were all butchers, and held various council offices. Between 1552 and 1565, grandfather Richard was a councillor, but was also at different times constable, sergeant and bailiff.
This is an extract from Staffordshire Pocket Album.
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Staffordshire Photographic Memories
The Guildhall is the town's oldest public building, dating from about 1714, but it was heavily restored during the mid 19th century. By the beginning of the 17th century those Englishmen who could afford it had taken up the craze for smoking tobacco in pipes made of clay. Newcastle's pipemakers gained a reputation for turning out quality pipes, for the clays... [more]
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