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Church Cottage Brantingham East Yorkshire
My twin sister and I were born at Church Cottage in 1939. I am the youngest of 9 children born to the Medforth family, 6 of whom are still living. My mum and dad were the caretakers of Brantingham church for nearly 40 years. Dad was the local gravedigger for Brantingham, Elloughton and Ellerker, all done by hand in those days. He also mowed the grass in the churchyard, looked after the boiler in the church and any jobs which needed doing at the church. He also mowed the grasses around the village and kept the becksides mowed using a scythe, and cleaned the becks out with the help of some of the men in the village. He was also the local barber meeting his clients very often in the Triton, were most of the village men gathered for a chinwag and a singsong. Dad had a great voice and loved to get everyone joining in, especially after a few pints! The Triton was owned by the Watsons in those... Read more
I Lived in Little Weighton
I lived in Little Weighton many years ago. My grandparents lived in Little Weighton. They were called Albert and Nellie Wright, who had a paper round for a business, and my other gran named Millie Shirtcliffe. They lived up New Village Road where my brother Chris lives now.
I was christened at Rowley Church and my grandparents are buried there. I have some lovely memories of Little Weighton and the area. I remember the trains at Little Weighton. Also the dog training between my grandparents houses in New Village Road.
Does anybody remember me?
I also remember the Police House and a house near there that used to sell ice cream through a small window, also the doctors being in the village hall.
My grandmother used to be married to Jack Shirtcliffe and Millie Shircliffe used to work as a postwoman and had a small shed behind the shop where she used to sort out the mail.
I used to live on new village road on the bend in a... Read more
South Cave Market Place
My husband Bill and I married in Brantingham Church on a cold day in January 1959, the snow lay thickly on the ground. We moved into Holderness Cottage, adjoining Holderness House, the home of Mrs Dunn, an elderly lady of whom we became great friends. The cottage was right next to the Town Hall, Mr & Mrs Doug Thornham lived upstairs in the Hall. Every hour the clock on the Town Hall chimed out and vibrated in the cottage, but funnily enough we eventually got so used to the noise, if the clock ever stopped we seemed to notice immmediately! It was a very small cottage, two bedrooms and two small rooms downstairs with no proper bathroom. I had my 3 children there and we lived there until 1970 when we bought our own home in Wesley Close. We lived there until 1981 and then moved back to 66 Market Place, the home of my in-laws who had just recently then passed away within a short time of each... Read more
Cowgate
The view is of Cowgate looking south. The white building in the background is the Green Dragon Inn - once a haunt of Dick Turpin. The beck, mill dam and church are just to the left. Welton once had 3 water mills - the last of which was working into the 1950s
Welton School
My sister Pat and I attended Welton School along with pupils from Brough and Brantingham after the 1950s. I am one of the Medforth twins from Brantingham (Roslyn). I remember we had a canteen at the school which served up some good dinners, except some of the puddings, tapioca was one, we all called it frogspawn pudding! The toilets were way out at the other side of the playground and were freezing cold in the wintertime. I remember some of the teachers there, Mr & Mrs Hood, Mr Scott, Mr Marshall, and Mr Freear was the headmaster, not a man to be on the wrong side of as he kept a cane or two in his office, which a few of the boys had a taste of, much to their sorrow! We had a variation of lessons, besides the usual ones, we had Cookery, Needlework, Art and Science. The boys had their Woodwork and Metalwork classes. We also belonged in the choir at school, and we entered some of the... Read more
Old Brough
When I came to live at Brough there were two shops, plenty of banks and churches and two pubs, the Buccaneer and the Ferry Inn. I visited both on numerous occasions. I worked at both the timber yard and what was then Hawker Siddleys. I was 25 years at Brough. I visited a month ago and didn't know it, the merger with Elloughton is amazing, the new housing is vast . It is not like the old Brough at all, though Station Road hasn't changed that much since the old days.
Brough County Primary School
My twin sister Pat and I attended Brough School from the age of 5 years old, along with other children from Brantingham. We travelled on the bus to School every day, which stopped outside the Triton near the War Memorial. Sometimes in winter when the bus didn't turn up because of the deep snow we would have to walk to school which was quite a long way for a child, and then had to walk back home again after school. We attended Brough school until we took our 11+ exams which we failed and we were then all moved on to Welton school. We made many friends in Brough while we attended the school there and we then moved to the other school with them too. We got to know Brough quite well as we continued to visit our friends homes as they each lived in different parts of Brough. Like all villages over the years it has... Read more
