Childhood Memories

A Memory of Staincross.

From a very early age, my older sister and I would be put onto the Yorkshire Traction 9:15am Barnsley bus by our Mam. She would have a word with Percy, the driver of this service for many years to come, give him some money to get us some refreshments at the halfway house, and off we would go. I myself was not yet old enough to go to school. Grandma Ineson would meet us at Barnsley bus station at 1:15p.m. We would stay with her and grandad for four weeks, and did this until we left school. We made a circle of friends over the years; Doreen Jones, Stuart Spacy, Neal Ives, Peter Marshall and many more. V.J. Day was a day to remember Aug 15th 1945. All the Dad's took the kids out to collect wood for a bonfire, we took old proms and carts, anything to carry the wood to the site of the bonfire, which was on the gardens to the row of houses next to Old Doris's fish and chip shop - purpose built job I would imagine, goodness knows where all the food appeared from, but appear it did; toffee apples, treacle toffee, cakes and biscuits, trifles and of course no bonfire would be complete without jacket potatoes. Grandma and Grandad Jim Ineson lived at 240 New Road Staincross, it could still be seen on Google earth, last time I looked. Oh my, I could go on for hours. Staincross... love it to pieces, last time there in 2003. Hello to the Brown family in Darton.

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