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98 & 100 High Street

Crowle, High Street c1960

These two shops in the High Street in Crowle were owned by my grandmother Rose Raper. They were handed down to my father and aunt. My dad Raymond Raper had the grocers shop at number 98 and we lived above the shop until I was ten years old in 1963. My dad continued to work in the shop until his retirement in 1984.
The shop at 100 was owned by my aunt Winnie Underwood. She had a drapery shop and her husband ran the post office at the back of the premises.
A memory of Crowle contributed by Rachel Ross

Willow Garth

My Grandparents Arthur and Gladys Gossop lived at Willow Garth, opposite the White Horse Pub.  Grandad bought it with his Army money.  He built a workshop, and began a business which included Wheelwright, Joiner and Contractor.  He made coffins and walked in funeral processions with his best top hat on.  He put piped water, WCs and a bathroom into the house, and did the same in Dad's house in York.  He had a bakelite telephone and always a car - first a little black one with orange indicators which stuck out to the side between the doors (one day the rain was coming through the roof when we went to the foundry and I saw the smith pour liquid metal into ...read more here
A memory of Gilberdyke contributed by Julia Cormack

The Cottages. Sandholme Road

Moved into Sandholme Road in 1954 from Howden. Father and grandfather bought The Cottages at auction and I lived there until going to college in 1970. My parents stayed there until 1983 when they moved into Laburnum Walk, where my mother still lives. Typical of many villages of the type, walk through it once and you have seen it twice. Living as I do now in Bedlington, Northumberland it is quite a way to visit but we get down when we can. I went to the old Gilberdyke primary as did my father and grandfather. (Ironically my father spent his last few years in the old school when it was turned into a nursing home). Passing the eleven plus meant I ...read more here
A memory of Gilberdyke contributed by Dave Cooper

Cowgate

Welton, the Green c1960

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
A memory of Welton contributed by Maurice Mann

Extracts From Burton-Upon-Stather & South Humberside books

Burton-Upon-Stather, High Street c1955

The Sheffield Arms dominates the scene, and still does to this day. The corner shop has gone, and Darley’s Ales are not available - the hostelry is now part of the Pubmaster chain. For the pub to be advertising a ‘large car park’ at this date suggests that the clientele came from outside the village, and that they were somewhat up-market to be car owners in the ‘50s.
An extract from from"Humberside Pocket Album".

Launceston, Greystone Bridge c1875

Greystone Bridge is ‘the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together’, according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in ‘Old Cornish Bridges and Streams’. Today it carries the A384 to Tavistock.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".

Launceston, the Chain Bridge 1906

‘Chain Bridge was a great attraction for me and my friends. We always built a hut in the woods — and would like to have slept there, but weren’t allowed to. We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards. We used to build bridges from island to island or spend hours killing vipers which abounded in a limestone tip heap. Daft we were; why we weren’t bitten I don’t know. Occasionally we made 6d by bringing home a basket of blackberries or elderberries for someone. Such was the summer holiday of a working-class boy’. Mr Cecil Cole, talking of his childhood in the early years of the 20th century, quoted in Arthur Bate Venning and Arthur Wills’ book ‘Yesterday’s Town’.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".

Launceston, Polson Bridge, River Tamar 1911

This Victorian structure replaced the old bridge. The metal central span was later rebuilt using stone, and until the building of the by-pass in 1974 it carried the heavy traffic of the A30. Today it carries only local traffic, such as visitors to Launceston Rugby Club, whose ground is nearby.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".

Launceston, St Thomas' Bridge c1960

This beautiful old bridge still stands next to the ford, and although often called a packhorse bridge, it was probably built to allow the priors to travel between St Stephens and St Thomas; hence its more correct name of Prior’s Bridge.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".