Nostalgic memories of Queensbury's local history

Share your own memories of Queensbury and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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I was born in Wellington Street on the 16th. of June 1955. My mother was Kate Holland, formerly Henderson. and my father was George E Holland. Sadly he passed away in 1939. So I dont remember very much about him. I had a great time in my younger years, swimming at the Vic baths, walking down Station Road to the station and buying a penny bar of chocolate from the machine on the wall. My schooling was at ...see more
My father was born "on the road to Queensbury", as I was told. He grew up in the Queensbury/Mountain/Bradford area and I have ties to those places still. Dad came to the U.S.A. in 1927 and lived with an aunt who had come earlier. I have always been connected to my family in the UK, writing to my grandmother and aunt and my cousins. I was able to visit in 2007 and what a wonderful trip that was. I truly felt like I ...see more
That road surface is still there to this day, lol. #councilresurfacetheroad.
as a young girl I spent time at lane side visiting my grandma smith who lived at no 21smy auntie sarah also live at no 17 with my cousins tommy and Christine in the school holidays we also played with the Kershaw girls at the big house across the road when the girls Jennifer and jane were home from boarding school the grounds of there house were magic I also remember anne Gibson and her brother
I believe the shop you mean is Thornes Bakery Julie Bentley (nee Allenby)
I think the shop was called Pools, I can remember my Grandma used to take her batteries there to have them recharged. We lived up Perseverance Road, up Mikey's Lane. I also remember the cobbler shop used to sell things for the horses. Good memories.
Hi, Brenda loved your memories o mountain. I also lived on the mountain up Perseverance Road up to being 7 and I also remember my uncle Harold taking me to the Mountain Eagle as an excuse to have a pint. He used to tell aunty Pam he was going to get smokes, so he used to take me. He used to put me on his shoulders, you see I was only 3 or 4. When he got there, I went in the back and stayed with your grandma so he could ...see more
I think the shop you mean was a greengrocers run by two brothers called Macdonalds.
I was born on 5th July 1948, we lived in one of the houses behind the Wheatsheaf hotel. Our neighbours there were the Wilcocks and the Browns. My Dad, worked as a driver for a furniture company and a coalman and I remember he used to ride a motor bike. We eventually moved to Hillcrest Drive and the Browns and Wilcocks were still our neighbours. Bobby Brown was my best friend right through primary school at ...see more
I remember my childhood days living on the mountain like they were yesterday, such happy days, playing for hours on the Second Moors and walking to Burks Wood and Fall Tops. Playing on the old station train lines and getting in the signal box to change the points, pretending there really was trains coming, when in fact the station had been closed for some years, daring each other to walk in the old tunnel and ...see more