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Little Nellie
Hi anyone remember "Little Nellie" (husband Joe) and their daughter Annie and grand daughter Margaret, from Sultan Street in Accrington. We used to travel down on the same bus with them every Friday night. In those days, we got the bus from the bottom of Water Street/Melbourne Street (now Eastgate). They had a caravan on Thornfield for years and years. When you passed the shop and turned onto the site, their caravan was way down the bottom, tucked in a corner. Little Nellie was extremely small and always seemed to wear mens wide legged trousers, with turn ups!
June
I Was There When Pic Was Being Taken
The camp shop pic was being taken when I was stopped while leaving the Bungalow next to the orchard, I was 8 yrs old. I was going to the shop. The 2 women I think were Auntie Dorene on the left from the house on the left, she was working in the shop part time, and Auntie Nellie Scott who also worked there, she rented the second house down from us, from my mum Clara. We later had Sunnyside Cafe built in 1967. Margaret Hall worked for my mum then, they were new to the village, she worked at the mushroom factory as well.
1960 Onwards
"Oh Happy Days". My first view of Staining was the 9th June 1960. I remember it well. I seem to remember the Staining bus did NOT go into the village, but stopped across from the old Plough pub. My gran had bought a caravan there, just up Chain Lane, on Mrs Smiths caravan site. Mr and Mrs Smith lived in the farmhouse, their 4 daughters lived nearby in the two red brick semis which Nana Smith had had built. (Auntie Fred'a has now been altered beyond all recognition). I got to know them all over the years. "Auntie Irene" Openshaw, with husband Norman and sons Charles, Dennis and Philip - their house was next to the caravan site and known as "Glentoo". Then there was Auntie Annie and Uncle Richard next door. Then Auntie Rosie and husband Joe who lived in the farmhouse, down the old lane, near the windmill (near a pig farm where Charles worked at one time). Then lovely lovely Auntie Freda and husband Fred Chadwick, with... Read more
Staining Now
I left Staining in 1974. We lived in the street where Fred Chatwick,had his garage with son Fred. My mum knew Irene very well as she worked to at the mushroom farm in Staining, along with the late Mary Whiteside and husband Frank. My best friend at the time was their daughter Teresa. I moved back to Staining in 1998, down the Nook, it's all changed, the little caravan site has gone and also Uncle Jim's Farm, who sadly got murdered many years ago now. I have very fond memories of Staining as a child, and that is why I returned. Reading your stories made me chuckle as I can relate to most of the people who you know and the village itself. Hope you reply, just love reading about the good old days in our tiny village.
Thornfield Holiday Park
One of my earliest memories was of falling in the dyke with my best dress on, I was around 18 months old and on Mrs Smith site which I think was close to Dover Lodge. I remember the delicious milk from Wrigglesworths which had red writing on and a picture of a cow on the bottle and a red top. After the dyke incident we moved to Thornfield. I have very fond memories of this site. I was friends with Margaret and also knew her Grandma Nellie. I used to be friends with a family called Cooper from Yorkshire especially Elaine. I would love to hear from any of the girls I played with back then. The Ways who were from Manchester and had a daughter called Sonya and an Austrian friend called Esther Sheikel. Esther's parents were trick cyclists in the circus. I would have tea with Esther's family and her grandmother would make schnitzel and noodles. I learned to speak German very well from... Read more
Castle
I always go to the beach and I did when I was little and I remember a type of building on the beach opposite from the beach terrace cafe. I always thought it was castle ruins, it was made of big stones and it looked like it had been knocked down years ago. I used to play on it when I was little and then one day it was gone, it had been taken away, it was probably unsafe because it looked very old. I've tryed to find out about it but there is nothing on the internet about it. But on the old Google Earth you can see it but not on the street view. I wish I knew what it was and the history of it. If anyone knows anything about it please can you tell me by writting it as a memory.
St Georges Avenue.
Lived at 28 Park Road and I attended St Thomas's School. My grandparents overlooked Aston Gardens living at 4 St Georges Avenue. Their names were Joseph and Elizabeth Hardman whose children were called Joyce Walmsley, John Walsley and Josie. Next door to them were a great family called Grierson. Mrs Grierson was a dressmaker who had sons and daughters with names Stephen, Joyce, Elizabeth 'Twizzy' and David. My sister, being the younger, was called Brenda and myself ,being the elder sister, called Janet. In Aston Gardens there was a theatre where we would visit if there was a good play going on! As children we were often chased by "Parkie" the Park Keeper if we were found to be playing hide and seek in the big bushes round the rose garden. St Thomas's School had a train going past at various times along side our playground. I have many happy memories of the penny slot machines on the Pier and going to many shows that were... Read more
