Uttoxeter, High Street c.1955

Photo ref: U29005

The Woman in the back ground is my Auntie Gillian Dainton. She has this very picture hanging in her flat. My mother was born in Uttoxeter. Her family homes; Eaton Croft, Delves Hall, Brookside. I hope any one reading this, would be so kind, if they have any pictures of Delves Hall or Brookside to please send them to me. My mother's family managed United Dairies, (Wilts). G father John Thomas Dainton. GG father Frederick William Dainton. My mother Lavinia came to USA in 1946.

Has anyone got a photograph of Stone Road before the flats were built in the 1970s?  My grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Foster lived at 21 Stone Road from about 1910 until they were demolished in the late 1970s and she watched them being demolished from a flat across the road. She was a widow from 1918 when her husband Thomas died as a result of the First Wordl War. I remember Highland cattle at the top of the road ...see more

The gap between Woolworth's and the next building was known as Pitts Place where Bert Mellor (my grandfather) ran a garage workshop where he maintained the vans for Devilles, the butchers, and the Uttoxeter racecource ambulance, which was an old WWII canvas sided vehicle.