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- 7 photos on Biddulph appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Biddulph
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Would You Believe It
The young man on the outside of the pavement is me, the group standing in the distance are family members and the two on my right are demanding to know where I am going, as it happened I was going to see my Gran.
Did not know who the kids were and still don't but if you look at the picture my fists are clenched I was ready for a fight but they backed off, I still walk with clenched fists to this day!
If you took a picture in the same place today it would look very much the same, todays pictures would be in colour but then that is how we saw it anyway.
Best Regards ...read more here
Contributed by David Bailey
Staffordshire memories
Would You Believe It
The young man on the outside of the pavement is me, the group standing in the distance are family members and the two on my right are demanding to know where I am going, as it happened I was going to see my Gran.
Did not know who the kids were and still don't but if you look at the picture my fists are clenched I was ready for a fight but they backed off, I still walk with clenched fists to this day!
If you took a picture in the same place today it would look very much the same, todays pictures would be in colour but then that is how we saw it anyway.
Best Regards ...read more here
A memory of Biddulph contributed by David Bailey
All uphill
Our Dad used to take us for a walk up to Mow Cop Castle on a sunny Sunday. We would set off from Talke with our bottle of pop and a jam butty and walk along the canal for a while then through the lanes in Scholar Green past the Three Horseshoes then up the steepest hill to the Castle. We would sit inside the round window at the front and try to see our house in Talke on the other side of the valley. We could see so much on a clear day but never really understood what we were looking at - The welsh Mountains were part of the view and we were always trying to spot the beach ...read more here
A memory of Kidsgrove contributed by Tina Stanyer
St Johns the scary
As a child I was terrified of the churchyard, we had to walk past it to get to Wilson Way where my Nan Lizzie Grocott lived. It wasn't so bad in the summer but in winter when it got dark early we would get off the bus opposite the Church and it would loom up like a big dark monster as we crossed the road towards it. My sister and me would grip onto Mum's hand so tight we would get told off. The Church yard backed on to my Auntie Frances' and if we were told to go across and visit her we would only go to the front door because we were terrified of what might be hiding just ...read more here
A memory of Goldenhill contributed by Tina Stanyer
Extracts From Biddulph & Staffordshire books
Biddulph Grange stands amid the magnificent gardens laid out by one of the great 19th century horticulturists, James Bateman. Bateman was also responsible for laying out the Arboretum at Derby, the first public park in England. The Grange later became a children’s hospital.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
Biddulph Grange stands amid the magnificent gardens laid out by one
of the great 19th-century horticulturists, James Bateman. Bateman was
also responsible for laying out the Arboretum at Derby, the first public
park in England.The Grange later became a children’s hospital.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Pocket Album".
This view shows the Victorian mansion and one of the more conventional parts of its fasci-
nating gardens.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".
In an earlier conflict John Bowyer, who was baptized at Biddulph in 1623, raised a company of foot for the Parliamentary army, and served with distinction at Hopton Heath. He was later appointed Governor of Leek and authorized to raise two Troops of Horse and to bring his company up to full regimental strength.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
At this time boys were often in their teens before they got a pair of long trousers. Jeans were unheard of, and the design of children’s clothes had hardly changed for thirty years. The three boys on the left could have stepped straight out of the late 1920s. Jeans did not become readily available until around 1960, when they could be bought for as little as 7s 6d a pair.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".