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Historic maps of Ranskill and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ranskill maps
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Blyth| Barnby Moor| Bircotes| Bawtry| Harworth| Oldcotes| Langold| Carlton-In-Lindrick| Tickhill| Retford| New Rossington| Worksop| Wadworth
Ranskill area books
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Memories of Ranskill
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The Woman my Father Married
I don't know a lot about Blyth, Northumberland, only that for some strange reason I visited an awful lot during my life but thought nothing of it. My current fiancee and I would sit for long periods on the old docks at the bottom of Ridley Street area, eating locally purchased cheeseburgers etc.
I remember once booking a romantic table for two in Blyth, but it was a waste of time - she only potted 3 reds!
Much later in my life I learned that my grandfather, James Barns Chilvers, was lost at sea after leaving Blyth harbour on 25th November 1925, on a collier named Galleon, bound for London. She never made it. Only wreckage of the ship was found.
He was born in Hull on the 16th June 1855. He married my grandmother, Dorothy Rose Chilvers, nee Burns, on March 11th 1901, in Gateshead Registry Office.
My grandmothers side of the family goes back hundreds of years and includes Rabbie Burns, the... Read more
My Younger Years
Hi all,
I spent a few years in Lound, then came to Canada. I have been back to my little village a few times - there are many changes now!
To anyone reading this - I would like to know what happened to the Burford family- they lived at the crossroads in the village, there were three girls and the one I would like to contact is Barbra. At the time I left for Canada and retired to live in Retford then married and returned to Canada. The Burfords may have moved to the north end of the village. We are going back to the mid 1960s!
My e-mail is fletchet@shaw.ca
Thanks,
Tony Fletcher.
Birthplace
I was born in Lound in 1937 and lived there until I was called up for national service December 1957. My grandparents were the last family to farm at East View farm, the farmhouse is now a private house, the land was sold for sand and gravel extraction. I worked on the farm for about two years until my grandparents died. At that time there were 6-7 working farms on Main Street ours being one of them. I well remember herding cows through the village, imagine trying to do that now. All of the barns and other farm buildings have been converted into houses. At that time the shop was thriving as was the Blue Bell pub. The shop has been closed for some years, the pub is still open thankfully. I visit the village from time to time and call in the pub for a pint. The village school was midway between Lound and Sutton-cum-Lound For any one who is interested I have two photo's of all the school assembly taken... Read more
Memories of Walking Past in 2000
I remember that it was a nice building.
Memories of my Home
Hi. I moved into the Gamecock in 1963 with my parents Norman and Jean Bennett and my brother Bryan, I was only two years old. My parents were landlord and land lady. Bartons grocers was next door, there was no Gamecock Field as we Know it today and no Grange View. Grange View was built about 1967 and the park was developed early 1970. The Wimpy estate as we know it was built when I was seven. I can just remember the comprehensive been built and the sports centre came a lot later. The park at the back of the pub was named after Tommy Simpson who died at the Tour de France and was born and bred in Harworth, I think.
When I started school, Mrs Swindon was my first teacher and the infamous Miss Rogers was the head!
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Sunday School
To start with, I do not know Harworth, but my grandparents lived there for a while around 1924. I am told they taught at the sunday school, but I think it might have been at a chapel, not the church. Does anyone have an idea if there was a Methodist chapel in the village at that time, and if there would be any records from that period in existance? They were called Knight and lived with relatives called Williams.
Harworth 'Old' Village
The large Horse Chestnut tree to the right was very popular when conkers were in season with boys searching the ground and throwing whatever came to hand at the tree to try and dislodge the nuts that were temptingly out of reach. At school play times serious competitions took place to see who had the best conker. I remember the walled playground being littered with the broken remains. Harworth sits juxtaposed with Bircotes, a sprawling estate of 'pit' houses built after the Great War for the miners at the nearby colliery. Going up the road behind the photographer takes you past the shoe factory towards Bircotes and the main shopping area for both communities. Turning left at the cross roads, the road leads over the railbridge and past the turning to the Glass Bulbs factory, at the time, besides the shoe factory and pit, the only other big nearby employer. Turning right takes you to Tickhill Spital and the county boundary with South Yorks. Straight on leads you through... Read more
