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My husband and I visited Youlgrave earlier this year as i am researching my family history and my 3 x g. grandma and grandad were married in this church. Her name was Martha Staley and his name was Joseph Goodall and they ...Read more

A memory of Youlgreave in 2007 by Elaine Platts

High St is the main rd or the A57 going through Swallownest on to Sheffield. On the left was the main bus stop, presumably the people are waiting for the bus. When I was 13 (1963) its the stop I used to catch the bus going to ...Read more

A memory of Swallownest by Charles King

From 1948 to the early fifties we used to have our weekly holiday in a bus on Marton Road. There were quite a few buses on the site, all situated at the top of the site, most of them were double deckers painted in green. ...Read more

A memory of Bridlington in 1948 by David Payton

I was born in 1943 at number 9 Dukes Crescent, Edlington. In 1953 my family moved to 33 Clark Avenue, Hill Top. This was the year I was 11 yrs old and I went to Hill Top School for girls. Most of my mother's siblings also ...Read more

A memory of New Edlington in 1953 by Patricia Ann Flanaghan Nee Ellis

in 1959,. as a lad i used to catch a train from rotherham with my friends to fish in the canal, we were able to buy chocolate, crips and lemonade from the station.we also made friends with a family named Zenall the live on Jaques bank by a ...Read more

A memory of Medge Hall by jonesmelvyn

We wonder if any one can remember this, sometimes Crown terrace was referred to as Rotherham road. as we remember Battys Formans Taylors Wylds Hobsons and Mr & Mrs Hayes were the people living on there.Then the Railway ...Read more

A memory of Beighton by stenjan

I was born in 1955 at KIlton Hospital in Worksop but lived in Kiveton for 23years before moving away...I lived with my parents peter and joan spacie and my brother jonathan on Highfield Avenue...on the estate just ...Read more

A memory of Kiveton Park by Mary Heeley

To the right of this picture, on the High Street was the town hall. For seven years I waited there every morning for the Jump Circular bus, or if I missed it the Rotherham bus to take me into Barnsley where I was at the then ...Read more

A memory of Hoyland in 1961 by David Webster

My great grandfather, Peter Wild, built the house called Uplands, on Haltex Lane on the banks of the canal in 1900 after he'd retired from the steel industry in Rotherham and Sheffield. I never met him but in 1996 I called at ...Read more

A memory of Hest Bank in 1941 by Michael Blagden

I went to this school in 1983 to take my A Levels. It was then called (and still is) the Thomas Rotherham College. It is lovely to hear about other people's memories of this place from long before I arrived there! I adored ...Read more

A memory of Rotherham in 1983 by Melanie Herrera