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I Lived in Little Weighton
I lived in Little Weighton many years ago. My grandparents lived in Little Weighton. They were called Albert and Nellie Wright, who had a paper round for a business, and my other gran named Millie Shirtcliffe. They lived up New Village Road where my brother Chris lives now.
I was christened at Rowley Church and my grandparents are buried there. I have some lovely memories of Little Weighton and the area. I remember the trains at Little Weighton. Also the dog training between my grandparents houses in New Village Road.
Does anybody remember me?
I also remember the Police House and a house near there that used to sell ice cream through a small window, also the doctors being in the village hall.
My grandmother used to be married to Jack Shirtcliffe and Millie Shircliffe used to work as a postwoman and had a small shed behind the shop where she used to sort out the mail.
I used to live on new village road on the bend in a... Read more
Wednesday Market Place
Hi, I would just like to add that the old photographs in this collection of Beverley, Market Places, are indeed old photographs of Saturday Market. That is, all except B80045 which is a photograph of Wednesday Market. The Fiveways Cafe in Wednesday Market was named Fiveways as you can arrive at it from five different roads.
The Lock
I was looking through the photes of Beverley, the man in the picture of the Lock, in the flat cap and shirt sleeves must be Mr Block. He used to come round to my house when I was a boy selling mushrooms that he collected on Figham.
Beck Side
My father lived at 7 Beck Side North as a child having moved there from Hull. The gardens were long and contained fruit trees. His father was a keen gardener. The neighbours kept cows and sold milk! My father fell in the beck aged 3 but managed to get out.
Beck Road South Now Waterside Road
I lived with my family, the Widdowsons, at 6 Beck Road South from 1938 to the late 50s. Dad, Douglas, was the Branch Manager at the Co-op at Register Square in town. I remember playing cricket on Crane Hill with our friends. Because we were not 'professionals' the ball was given a swipe and inevitably ended up in the Beck - all the time. We had an old bucket on a piece of string to fish it out. It was the only ball we had - 'it was wartime' we were told over and over again. The ball was always wet and black and smelly. The Beck was heavily polluted in those days. But we never caught anything and, thankfully, never fell in. We played on the road as well because there were no cars, and I have plenty of scars on my legs and arms from falling between the wickets as we tried to score runs. I remember the Cherry twins, Bette and Mary and the Scaife... Read more
I Used to Cycle There
I used to live in Carr Lane which was only a short walk across (at that time) an open field, to visit these shops. Comics and penny sweets in the newsagent, where I also paid in to my Post Office Savings account, then later withdrew when I had enough to buy an Airfix model. My mother shopped at the co-op which was several shops to the left and there was a fish-and-chip shop roughly in the middle of the picture.
One of the shop keepers had painted a notice on his window, using a white paint that was easy to rub off the glass with just a finger, saying he had "Boiling Fowl". As delinquents my friends and I just had to alter it to "oili owl".
Church Cottage Brantingham East Yorkshire
My twin sister and I were born at Church Cottage in 1939. I am the youngest of 9 children born to the Medforth family, 6 of whom are still living. My mum and dad were the caretakers of Brantingham church for nearly 40 years. Dad was the local gravedigger for Brantingham, Elloughton and Ellerker, all done by hand in those days. He also mowed the grass in the churchyard, looked after the boiler in the church and any jobs which needed doing at the church. He also mowed the grasses around the village and kept the becksides mowed using a scythe, and cleaned the becks out with the help of some of the men in the village. He was also the local barber meeting his clients very often in the Triton, were most of the village men gathered for a chinwag and a singsong. Dad had a great voice and loved to get everyone joining in, especially after a few pints! The Triton was owned by the Watsons in those... Read more
