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Historic maps of Wilday Green and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Wilday Green maps
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Snowing And Floating
Can't be too specific about the year, just know I was young. Perhaps we'd not been long in our house on Carr Lane, having lived in Dronfield before. What a treasure this house was, running water, separate bedrooms and gardens, and the view from the front was fields as far as the eye could see.
There wasn't much traffic in those days, not much of anything in fact, pedestrians or animals, just the bus once an hour, the No 86 I believe, and the odd car, very odd car.
There weren't many shops either, just one local one where you basically got all of your needs, fresh crusty bread daily, made by Gunstones or Fletchers, we would go and pick a loaf up, and pick bits of crust off on the way home, and hope you didn't get into too much bother for it, then there was a Post Office at the top of the road.
There were at least two farms and two pubs and a... Read more
Grandfather James Duckett 1901
Just starting a family history according to the 1901 census My grandparents James and Mary Duckett lived at 37 Sheffield Rd, Dronfield with their children Richard, Dennis and Frances. My mother Mary Duckett was born in 1907 in Dronfield. I remember her telling me she had a long walk to school or was it church? jJmes Duckett came from Ireland and the family was Catholic.
The Red House, 19 Church Street, Dronfield
My great-grandfather died at the Red House in 1935 and I wondered if anyone could add any further info to this? His name was John Thomas Whiteley, he was a steel inventor in New York. Any help most welcome.
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Memories of Growing up in Dronfield
I was born at 4 Chapel Yard, Dronfield on 13th September 1941. We lived with my grandma, Mrs Watson, as my dad Jack Keeble was away in Burma fighting the Japanese. It was only a small house as it was originally a Methodist or Quaker Meeting House which had been converted into two cottages. Our neighbours were Mr and Mrs King and their two sons Maurice and Brian. It was quite a lonely childhood as I had no one to play with until I started school at 5 years old. I went to The County Primary School until I was 11 years when I passed my 11 plus and went to Dronfield Grammer School.
When I was 5 my parents got one of the prefabs on Stubley Lane. It was wonderful to have a bathroom with a heated towel rail and a fridge and electric cooker. We felt really posh. Three of my brothers were born there, Stuart, Allen and Philip.When my dad was demobbed in 1948 he worked... Read more
Much Love
I, Louise Lomas, grew up at no. 58 Snape Hill Crescent, Dronfield with my mum and dad and sister Dawn and Brian Lomas and Nicola, oh and not forgetting Benjamin our border collie dog. My grandad, James Marples, lived at number 52 Snape Hill Crescent, the man I addored and loved so much, I think of him every day of my life and miss him terribly, he died November 1977, Saturday evening, while watching Starsky and Hutch! Dronfield was a lovely place, relatives lived near by and I always felt very much loved. As children then we all congregated on Chiverton Close with the Fletchers, Siddalls, Crossleys, Hardwicks, all having harmless fun - unlike today. I still drive along Snape Hill Crescent and see myself walking pass grandad's house on my way to school at 8.30 in the morning, "Night grandad", I used to yell, "Bye sweetheart" he would reply. I would sit for hours on the wall outside his house, having previously read the note from my mum, "Don't disturb... Read more
Devonshire Street
I was born at no 10 Devonshire Street and remember the row of terraced houses and tiny cramped back streets, and loads of alleys and gennels where we played hide and seek. I was about 4 when Sheffield was bombed and remember standing in the doorway between my mum and dad and him saying "Don't worry, Twiggy. They are not going to bomb us". He must have been on leave from his regiment at the time but he was also evacuated from Dunkirk after swimming out to the small boats in the English Channel. There were searchlights in the sky and a large brick shelter was built towards the bottom of Devonshire Street and a Mr. Oldfield used to organise us when we filed in during a bomb scare. Looking back we would have had no protection at all if a bomb had been dropped. I couldn't have been very old but I also remember the lamp lighter who used to come and light the gas lamp at the top... Read more
Shopping With Mum
I know the picture very well, as I have a copy of this on my wall. My mother purchased this copy about 20 years ago and I brought it back to Australia with me on my father's death. He had been Group Chief Confectioner/Director at Trebor sweet company.
The reason this photo is of so much interest to the family is that my mum, grandma and me are in the picture! I'm the little girl holding a bunch of flowers! I was then aged 10. My mother is beside me facing away from the camera and my grandmother is further back on the right wearing the dark hat.
Interesting that we have become part of Chesterfield's photographic history!
We moved to Leybourne, Kent in about 1962, when my father was transferred to Sharps in Maidstone.
Regards
Julia (nee Weekes)
