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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
Contributed by Tina Stanyer
Staffordshire memories
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
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
Extracts From Kidsgrove & Staffordshire books
Kidsgrove is situated within the North Staffordshire coal field, and it was at a mine in the area in 1837 that deep mining was being carried out at 975ft below the surface. The deepest mine at this time, however, was at Apedale, where men were working at depths in excess of 2,000ft.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
Kidsgrove is situated within the North Staffordshire coal field, and it
was at a mine in the area in 1837 that deep mining was being carried
out at 975ft below the surface.The deepest mine at this time, however,
was at Apedale, where men were working at depths in excess of 2,000ft.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Pocket Album".
The town’s first inhabitants were men who worked for 11 years in the 18th century constructing the Trent &
Mersey Canal’s nearby Harecastle tunnel. This is still the main road, though its cobbles have been obscured by
tarmac. It is unfortunate that today four of the seven upper-storey bay windows have now been replaced - without
their bays - and some of the properties are boarded up.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
This exquisite black and white 16th century farmhouse stands alone on its moated island. There is no other
Elizabethan half-timbered building in England to match it. The south-facing gatehouse shown, approached by the
bridge across the moat, was a later addition.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
This was in the days when supermarkets complemented high street shopping. Out of town shopping and subsequently deserted high streets were still some way off in the future.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".