Nostalgic memories of Hollingwood's local history

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I have now done some detective work regarding the origin of the Tip that we knew as Mount Pud, which was located between Station Road and the canal. It was obviously some kind of industrial waste dump but, as there was a canal and a railway between it and Staveley Works it seemed an improbable site due to it's inaccessibility. However, on checking an old map of the area dated 1883, before the LNER ...see more
Does anyone remember the Tip and Mount Pud with the cave at the top? This wonderland was at the bottom of Hollingwood but it's all cleared now. We used to play there all the time. There were hard rainbow coloured stones which we I used to collect. Anyone know how the place came about? I suspect it may have been a tipping point for some Staveley Works operation. I remember the "Prefabs" down towards the station too. ...see more
Hi, we moved to Hollingwood in 1977, from Grangewood. It ain't changed much though. I went to Hollingwood infants and juniors. Does anyone remember these teachers: Miss Maisie Bond, head, Miss McGregor, Miss Binney, or juniors: Mr Beckett, Mr Middleton, Miss Shipgood, Mr Watkinson? There was an eccentric piano teacher but I can't think of her name, I know she stank of moth balls though.