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Historic maps of Shafton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Shafton maps
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Cudworth| Royston| South Kirkby| Barnsley| Staincross| Ackworth| South Elmsall| Wombwell| Thurnscoe| Darton| Kexborough| Goldthorpe| Bolton-Upon-Dearne| Featherstone| Wakefield| Horbury
Shafton area books
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South Yorkshire memories
I Loved to Roam The Fields
In the early 1960s Cudworth was a great place to live. Myself along with a group of kids used to go swimming at Cudworth baths, most of us lived on Park Avenue or on Beech Avenue, all exept John Darcy, e lived down Dafield Road. It would be nice to get in touch with anyone from that time or from Cudworth Modern School. I am on face book or email me at iwhinup@telus.net
A Live Saved
On the 10th of May 1941 Christopher Forsyth and J C Mc Allister saved a child from drowning in the canal at Monk Bretton bridge. Does anyone know who this child was? If so, please let me know.
Thank you.
Evacuation
I was evacuated about 1943. I can remember a field, I think of cauliflowers, opposite, and a bluebell wood somewhere at the bottom of the road. The people next door were called Ackridge(I don't know if that's spelt right), they had twins of about three. It must have been hot, I can still in my mind see the three of us playing in the field, the twins had on just little white knickers and had pure white hair. We could not have got on with the peple we were billeted with because we came back to London. I went to a school somewhere there with the son of the people we were staying with, he gave me a piggy back and he dropped me. The headmistress was very cross and said it was my fault, I dont think she liked us evacuees. I am 69 now but have never forgotten the kind people who lived next door.
Stockdales Shop in Cudworth
Does anyone remember a grocery shop in CUDWORTH called STOCKDALES please?
It would have probably been in business after the war. Any memories or information would be very welcome.
Mervyn Broadhurst
northern Spain
debasket42@aol.com
Children in The 1940s
I was born and raised in Cudworth and lived in Church Street. There was a large field behind our house and most of the children in the area used to play games there, especially cricket or football. We used to have matches between the children in our immediate area and the children in Churchfields area. My good friend at the time was Kitty Archer. I wonder where she is now?? My mother was a teacher at the local primary school and at Pontefract Road Primary. I went to Snydale Road school and remember the now Sir Michael Parkinson was there at the same time. He was a year below me but due to the shortage of teachers in wartime, there were 2 years in one. Our teacher in the last year was a Miss Lee. We children used to wonder if she would get her backside burnt as in winter she used to perch atop the fireguard effectively keeping the fire off us! We still had gas lighting and our... Read more
Stockdales Greengrocers Shop
Stockdales shop was owned by by grandma Winnie Stockdale and her husband Jim. She retired from the shop in 1965 and lived at Church Street, Cudworth. She opened the shop in about 1937. My grandad Jim worked at Monk Bretton Colliery. On Good Friday they used to sell many stones of fish. My mother and father (Gladys and Harold Haigh) used to look after the shop when my grandparents went on holiday) - Gladys is my mother - she is now 88 yeas of age. I was always fortunate in that having grandparent who owned a greengrocers shop I could always have fruit to take to school - my schoolfriends used to follow me around the playground waiting for me to give them the "apple cog". On Sunday mornings I used to go and help my grandad Jim to clean and wipe the pop bottles and wimsol bottles and generally clean the shop. I had to do this to get my pocket money. My grandma was the one I always had to... Read more
My Grandparents
My grandmother Rose nee Shufflebottom and my grandad Samuel Rayson who was a miner at the Wakefield pits in around the 1920s would love to know more about their history and see old pictures of Cudworth in and around Somerset Street where my Mum, 2 sisters and brother were born! Have been told my Mum and aunts have had a wonderful childhood living in Cudworth have yet to see old pictures!
