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Historic maps of Normanby and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Normanby maps
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Loss of Childhood
I attended the local school at the bottom of Gisbrough Bank - I have several school photographs of myself and classmates. I had a fight with a school friend as to whose turn it was to serve the school dinner that day. This was sorted by a teacher who said - You do it today - to my school friend and to me - You do it tomorrow. My tomorrow never came. That night I was told that Mr Pugh my foster parent was very ill and that my sister and me would be going somwhere else in the morning. I felt so sad about this. I had a little friend called Rex Harris, others were Valerie and Tania. I never had the opportunity to say goodbye to them. I have lovely memories of the 1952 Coronation party. I went as the weather girl, my sister as a doll in a box - I think she won. I remember looking longingly at a copy of the royal stagecoach which was... Read more
Cargo Fleet Lane
London born, married a Yorkshire Rose, bought a house, semi-detached, corner of Cargo Fleet Lane/Bournemouth Avenue. 2 children born there (so they could play for Yorkshire, so my wife Margaret says). Many happy memories of walks to Stewart Park, going to the Fountain pub on a Sunday for a pint, walking everwhere. My mother Peggy Pinchin (now deceased) lived around the corner at Woburn Grove. Left to emigrate to Australia in 1973, moving to a place called Slacks Creek, which is outer Brisbane, now Logan City.
So Long Ago, But Never Forgetten
I used to live in Eversham Road and to catch the trolley bus on the corner of Birchinton Avenue and Bolckow road was an every day event. I was just 10 years old when this picture was taken, the car probably belonged to Mr Linclater, the cycle shop owner. Next door to him was the chippy, Blackburns, if I remember well, then there was Lightfoots the newsagents, the butcher's shop, and the Yorkshire Penny savings bank on the corner. Unseen, as it is on the other corner, was Lannie's, the tea room and fresh ice cream shop. Bailey's Bakery on the other side of the road, they had 1 penny Hovis loaves and boy were they great.
I was in the young choir in Saint Matthew's Church, went to school at the Board School and, when I had my pocket money, I would stop at the sweet shop, really a residence with the parlour used as a shop, to get a packet of Kayly and licquerice "straw" to suck it... Read more
Grandparents
My grandparents Francis Cuthbert and Lillian (Reece) Conway lived at 109 Birchington Avenue. My mother Mariam Suzzanah lived there for many, many years with her family i.e. Frank, Cath, Winifred, mum, Lilian and baby Kevin. Before that they lived in Bessemer Street. My grandfather worked at the steel works and had served in the First World War. Before my immediate family emigrated to Australia in the early 1960s we were often at my grandparents' home. I remember there was a big grassed area and the bus would do the circle for pick-up. The house had a large back garden in which my grandfather had built a bunker during the Second World War, and he had an extensive vegetable garden, one of my strongest memories is eating fresh rhubarb in a sugar cone on the back step. If you stood on the street and looked right you could see Eston Hills, which we used to climb. My nana died first whilst we lived in England 1961 and my grandfather in 1974,... Read more
Eversham Road
Noticed a mention of Baileys shop, my mam worked there for Arthur Baily and I believe his bakery was at one time near the old boys club, we lived in Eversham Road from I think 1948 until I married in 1968. We lived at no 13 for most of the time but about 1969 my mam moved into no 10 after they modernised them.
Townfoot Farm
I was born 1949 and lived at Townfoot Farm till 1957. I knew of the Tinniswoods, I am not sure which generation. My dad was a friend of Loise Judson and I remember the son John. I had a friend in Andrew Kidd and were good friends of the family. My grandad was Stan Cranston the butcher from KO. I went to school in the small white building by the swimming pool with its wind-up gramaphone. We moved to a farm near Banbury in 1957 and later near Stratford on Avon in 1963. I joined British Airways in 1972 and retired in 2004. I have several relatives in the area. Jim and Cristine Peat of Ostrich fame, and the Monkhouses and Ingledews. EMail: harrysiddall@yahoo.co.uk
Cargo Fleet, All Gone Now!
It is so sad that there is little of Cargo Fleet remaining, not only physically but also photographically. I have searched in vein to find photographs of this once strong community. Those I have are from when I was around 4 to 6 years old and only show outside of our house and a couple I have of the old school taken shortly before being demolished.
