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Trimdon maps
Historic maps of Trimdon and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Trimdon maps
Trimdon photos
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Trimdon area books
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Memories of Trimdon
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Thomas Kew
Does anyone know of anything about the KEW family that lived at 13, North Plantation Row? Thomas and Margaret (Thubburn) are my great-grandparents. Any info would be great. Thanks, Doug Kew.
Growing up
my memory of living in "God's Village" is of days roaming round the grange, going down the fields to the beck, getting to the top of the "Red Ash Pit Heap", coming back round the coke works and spending loads of time messing around the TMS garage, most week nights and all day Saturday and Sunday.
Aunty's Molly's House
I stayed at my Aunty Molly's house a lot. I remember Uncle Tom coming home from the pit black as anything, and going to the local flea pit with my cousins, also going to Aunty Anne's house and Uncle George in the tin tub, black as the ace of. spades, with Aunty scrubbing him clean. I have a lot of info of the Kews's, I have put a headstone on Grandma Kew's grave with mum's, my sister's and my wife's names on as well.
Station Town
I lived in Rodridge Street and attended Wellfield Grammar School. My best pal was Peter Scott who lived in Milburn Terrace. Peter emigrated to Australia on the £10 package trip, I never heard from him after that. He had a brother Bernard, who was in the R.N. After school I went to work on a dairy farm near Trimdon Village. I later worked at the Palace Cinema in Wingate as a projectionist with Walter Gibbon and Eric Smith. My abiding memory of Station Town is the rows of streets around Rodridge Street, most of them inhabited by Miners, and the great feeling of 'togetherness' about the place.
Fir Tree Inn
I remember the Fir Tree Inn in its hey day. My Aunty Peggy was the landlady; she was a wonderful person; she always wore spectacular dresses when behind the bar.
The Inn was at the top of the village just where Wellfield Road began.
Sadly Aunt Peggy and Uncle Dick are with us no more but memory is a marvellous thing, a part of me will always remember the atmosphere behind the bar even though I was(technically) too young to work there.
Anne Wagstaff
Greys Drapers
Grandfather William Grey owned a number of shops in Wingate, Co. Durham one was at 47 North Road West, Wingate, it was a drapers shop. Grandfather died in 1962, his last remaining shop was closed by my mother Winnie England and made into a house. My family were once very prominant in Wingate, they consisted of the Greys, the Races and the Tarrens. In the 1800s Robert Tarren owned the Plough Inn in Hutton Henry. I would be very interested in any information about current family members.
Percy And Joan's Fish And Chip Shop
I'm wondering if anyone remembers this couple? Joan is my dad's cousin but I can't remember her married name. I'm trying to trace back the KEW side of my family and Joan's mam was Molly (nee Kew). If Joan is still around I would like to ask her some stuff. Anyone....help! Thanks, Doug Kew.
