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Tankersley maps
Historic maps of Tankersley and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Tankersley maps
Tankersley photos
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Tankersley area books
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Yorkshire Family Tree
My great-grandad came from Tankersley, Lowder Lee Backhouse, born 1856, he was model maker (E & M). I don't know what sort of models he made. He was married to a Mary Coperly who came from Wortly, Yorks.
South Yorkshire memories
RICHARD TURNER of Tankersley Area
Not exactly a memory - but my 7th Great Grandfather on my Maternal side, RICHARD TURNER, was a "Woodsman of Howbrook" (circa 1647 to circa 1717). Anyone out there with a link?
His father was THOMAS, and his Grandfather LAURENTIOUS.
His son RICHARD and grandson CHRISTOPHER were also Woodsmen (Charcoal Burners/Wood Colliers)
Playing
The tree was hotel. A ship.
Sheffield Wedneday boat A tin bath.
Ebenezer Square
Hi, does anybody remember living in the Ebenezer Square? We lived at the top, if you turned left you went under a hallway and we lived in one of the houses. I remember some of the families, Fallis and Fletchers, and we had a relative who had a shop at the side of the Co-op, she was called Goldthorp, when we bought 2 ounces of spice, or sweets as they are called now. If it went over she would cut the sweet in half ,the good old days, 2 blackjacks for a halfpeny, wow we thought we was rich.
My Grandparents
My grandparents come from Elsecar and Wentworth, in Mill Lane, you may have seen the Roundhouse,Can`t miss it really just up from Pondside. When my real grandad died my grandmother remarried a man named Stanley Horn from Harley. Now from the age of 13 he used to walk from Harley through Mill Lane.along Pondside as they called it and go to work in Elsecar Pit. he did this until he got married in 1947 and then only had half of the journey to make. He did this until he retired at the age of 65 having done 52 years there. When I stayed there as a child I would meet him or go with him to get his wages. We used to go into the corner shop and then he would go into the pub opposite, not sure but I think one of them was called Thickets. All this was unknown to my grandmother of course. The names in my family were Wilkinson, Dean. my uncle Laurence (Lorry )... Read more
Family
This is not really a memory but since putting my memories on here one of my great uncle Lorry`s daughters Sheila went to Canada just after the war 1946 . Well guess what !her eldest daughter has got in touch with me. She has always been a name that my mother used to talk about. I always used to think about her as we were the same age . Now we are in contact by email. Brilliant my email is Suecclassic@aol.com if any other relatives come to light .
best wishes to you all Sue
Cottages at Thurgoland Bank
First a little bit of history.
There is a double cottage on Thurgoland Bank overlooking Cheesebottom, it was built by my Great Grandfather John Tufft around 1880. He was a Shingler at Wortley Lower Forge, having moved his family down from Tipton some years earlier.
He brought up his family here, seven children in all. After he died in 1920 and my Great Grandmother died in 1921 the cottage was occupied by my Great Aunts Matilda, known as Mant, and Gertrude, known as Gertie. It passed from the family around 1975 upon Gertie`s demise.
It has always been a mystery to me how a Forgeman was able to built his own house, retire at around 50 (as the story goes ) bring up seven children, and this in days of no state pension. My aunt Gertie taught at Thurgoland school all her working life.
One of the highlights of my childhood was the occasional Sunday afternoon in summer when my Mother and Father would take my brother and myself to... Read more
