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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
Fishing equipment and Cakes
Every year we would go to Pooles on the High Street to get yellow fishing nets so that we could go and collect tadpoles from ponds around the area. We would deliberate for a good while over what colour nets to get but we always ended up with yellow because our Dad said they showed the tadders up best.
Tiko Bakery was at the top of Elgood Lane (Church Lane) behind the Swan and we used to walk past ever so slowly just so that we could smell the bread and cakes cooking, on warm days we could still smell it as we turned up Wilson Way to my Nan's house.
A memory of Goldenhill contributed by Tina Stanyer
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
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
Extracts From Burslem & Staffordshire books
Bottle kilns were once a familiar sight throughout the Potteries, and there were about 2,000 of them in the late 1930s. Later, they fell victim both to progress and anti-pollution legislation, and were replaced by gas-fired and electric kilns. The last bottle kiln to be used commercially closed down in 1967.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
Bottle kilns were once a familiar sight throughout the Potteries,
and there were about 2,000 of them in the late 1930s. Later,
they fell victim both to progress and anti-pollution legislation,
and were replaced by gas-fired and electric kilns.The last of the
bottle kilns to be used commercially closed down in 1967.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Pocket Album".
The industrial landscape of Burslem was dominated by bottle kilns and slag heaps. At this time, the Staffordshire potteries were employing about 60,000 workers. The North Staffordshire area of the National Coal Board included such collieries as Chatterley Whitfield, Norton & Biddulph, Silverdale, Wolstanton, and Trentham.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
The industrial landscape of Burslem was dominated by bottle kilns and
slag heaps.At this time, the Staffordshire potteries were employing about
60,000 workers. The North Staffordshire area of the National Coal
Board included such collieries as Chatterley Whitfield, Norton &
Biddulph, Silverdale,Wolstanton, and Trentham.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Pocket Album".
Gazing up the street
past Wilks Teenage
Fashions (left) with
the Elkes Cafe above,
we can see Barclays
Bank. This was built
in 1921 on the site of
Huggins & Chambers,
an ironmonger’s. The
ironmonger’s sold
Witchem’s firelighters
among other products
- these must have
contributed to the
conflagration when
the building was
burned to the ground
in 1920.
An extract from from"Uttoxeter Living Memories".