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Historic maps of South Bank and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all South Bank maps
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Cargo Fleet, All Gone Now!
It is so sad that there is little of Cargo Fleet remaining, not only physically but also photographically. I have searched in vein to find photographs of this once strong community. Those I have are from when I was around 4 to 6 years old and only show outside of our house and a couple I have of the old school taken shortly before being demolished.
Childhood Memories of Cargo Fleet
I always remember the November 5th Bonfire on the common opposite Hilda Woodall's (I think) shop on the corner of Chester Street and next to Dents Cobblers. We all stood around the magnificent bombfire feeling quite safe as adults were also there. I also remember the clean washing hung out in the back-arches, the street games which were played, some were too old for me (t-Ak), but it was good fun to watch, and Colliers Dairy in our street( Dover Street). I only lived there for a short time of my life and the time going back to visit my relatives in Dover Street, where I was born, but neverthless have some happy memories!
Cargo Fleet
When I look back, they were probably the best years of my life though I didn't think so at the time, my mam had parted from my dad, I was 12, had never heard of Cargo Fleet, had lost my dad and was taken to this place Id never heard of. I rebelled and hated every minute, but it wasn't the place, it was the circumstance. I ran away as my mam had another bloke but somehow Cargo Fleet always drew me back. I made great friends there, I met my first hubby while there and had my daughter. I got my first house there, 3.75 per week, no running hot water and a tin bath on the yard wall, yes it was 1978 and I had a tin bath on the yard wall. I live in Harrogate now, nothing grand, and have 4 beautiful grandchildren, and a gorgeous second hubby, but I would go back now, give me two hours to pack, no hot water, tin bath, heaven. I... Read more
A Trip Down Cargo Fleet
I lived in Cargo Fleet in the back end of the 1960s. There was a shop on the end of our row. I went to Lawson School. We played near a beck or river near some works. I fell in and was pulled out by a young teenager. I never got to thank him as I would not be here now residing in Ripon with a wife and 3 children. Does anyone know the name of the street as I was very young? Tthere was a football ground a bit further down the road .
Cargo Fleet
I lived in Cargo Fleet as a young child, having moved from Australia. My grandmother was born in Cargo Fleet, and she ended up returning with my grandfather, where they purchased a shop on the corner of Bristol Street. We lived up the road, at (I think) 11 Cargo Fleet Lane. I attended Lawson school for a short time, but ended up having to attend North Ormesby school when Lawson was demolished. I have fond memories of my time as a child in Cargo Fleet. I recall the bonfires every Guy Fawkes night and the fair that came to town every summer. There was also a church in North Ormesby that burnt down shortly before our arrival and seemed to take forever to be repaired, so the sight of it with a blackened roof was quite eerie at night. I also recall several houses in the next street that were derelict, and we used to play in them. My grandparents sold the shop in 1978 and we returned to Australia.... Read more
So Long Ago, But Never Forgetten
I used to live in Eversham Road and to catch the trolley bus on the corner of Birchinton Avenue and Bolckow road was an every day event. I was just 10 years old when this picture was taken, the car probably belonged to Mr Linclater, the cycle shop owner. Next door to him was the chippy, Blackburns, if I remember well, then there was Lightfoots the newsagents, the butcher's shop, and the Yorkshire Penny savings bank on the corner. Unseen, as it is on the other corner, was Lannie's, the tea room and fresh ice cream shop. Bailey's Bakery on the other side of the road, they had 1 penny Hovis loaves and boy were they great.
I was in the young choir in Saint Matthew's Church, went to school at the Board School and, when I had my pocket money, I would stop at the sweet shop, really a residence with the parlour used as a shop, to get a packet of Kayly and licquerice "straw" to suck it... Read more
Grandparents
My grandparents Francis Cuthbert and Lillian (Reece) Conway lived at 109 Birchington Avenue. My mother Mariam Suzzanah lived there for many, many years with her family i.e. Frank, Cath, Winifred, mum, Lilian and baby Kevin. Before that they lived in Bessemer Street. My grandfather worked at the steel works and had served in the First World War. Before my immediate family emigrated to Australia in the early 1960s we were often at my grandparents' home. I remember there was a big grassed area and the bus would do the circle for pick-up. The house had a large back garden in which my grandfather had built a bunker during the Second World War, and he had an extensive vegetable garden, one of my strongest memories is eating fresh rhubarb in a sugar cone on the back step. If you stood on the street and looked right you could see Eston Hills, which we used to climb. My nana died first whilst we lived in England 1961 and my grandfather in 1974,... Read more
