Goldthorpe, Doncaster Road c.1965
Photo ref:
G110011
Photo ref:
G110011
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Memories of Goldthorpe, Doncaster Road c1965
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Goldthorpe, Doncaster Road c.1965
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I was born in Bolton on Dearne in 1948; my grandfather was Guy Lewis the Goldthorpe chemist whose shop was in Doncaster Road. My grandparents lived in Market Street (number 5)
Has anyone a photograph that might show the chemists shop? My grandfather retired about 1963.
David Lewis
Reg died recently in New Zealand where he lived since 1950's He was a child miner (14) in 1944 and I would like to collect a pit check or information of that time. He had fond memories of his life in Goldthorpe, he lived in Goldthorpe Road with his 7 other siblings. We visited there during the 1960's for the first time and continued to visit up to the 2000's when Reg developed Parkinsons. ...see more
To be fair, from what I hear, Thurscoe was a nice place back in the day, but now there's fighting everywhere and Thurscoe is filled with a bunch of hard nuts.
Cave woods is a good laugh though, it is the only place that is nice and peaceful, my great nanan's ashes are there.
The memory from 1948 reminded me of my first and ALMOST ONLY experience of a cell. My parents were friends of Cliff Hayward of Bolton on Dearne and his family. Cliff was a Police constable on the Goldthorpe strength and when for some reason my father took me to meet up with Cliff at the Goldthorpe Police Station I, being aged 12 or 13 at the time, naturally wanted to see "the prison". ...see more
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