Nostalgic memories of Esh Winning's local history
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Displaying Memories 1 - 10 of 13 in total
I recall as a young boy the Saw Mill that existed neat Esh Winning Colliery. It was sited just prior to where the Railway siding crossed the road at the bottom of West Terrace. It used to cut pit props which were stacked on the opposite site of the road close to the colliery.
There is no indication today that this building existed. The railway is gone and so are the colliery terraces beyond where the railway ran, the only remaining building is one I always knew as the Women's Institute
I lived in Brandon Road in the house next door to the Majestic Cinema from about 1940 to 1946. The house in those days was called Dent Dale which was written on the glass panel above the door. I used to go to the school across the road, it has now become the Catholic School. My grandparents lived in West Terrace, no longer there, my Grandfather George Baker was an Overman in Esh Winning Pit. My Uncle Jack ...see more
I have many pictures of the family from the early 20th century - I would love to share them with any current family members should they come across this, or if anyone has contacts.
i moved with my mother two sisters and brother to esh winning in 1956 I think. We had a terraced house in Evenwood Road where my step grandmother Ethel Galley also lived. My mother managed to get a three bedroom council house at the Oaks on the outskirts of the village towards Waterhouses. I thought the council estate was very smart which I think it was at the time being fairly newly built. All open plan and ...see more
I was born in Esh Winning in 1949, dad Bob White and mum Alice Eddy. Mum's family had 2 of the chip shops and the garage, but dad's family were from Hamilton Row. I remember living in South Terrace before getting our first house with an inside toilet in Fir Terrace and then in Dene Park, which I left in 1968. My mum continued to live there through till her death in 1995. Our neighbours there ...see more
My great grandfather, Walter Smith, moved up from Bressingham, Norfolk to work in the mines. He moved to Esh to work at the mine and lived in tile sheds, his son Robert was born there 1862. I have visited Esh and the surrounding area - a nice village and little remains of the mining or Esh Winning colliery. He made the step to go mining when his father was a weaver, and grandfather a farmer having his own farm in ...see more
My name is Allan Calvert, my mother's maiden name was Hazel Hughes, she came from a large family consisting of two brothers and two sisters. My grandad, Walter, owned a fish and chip shop a couple of doors down from the Dreadnought Club . Both my uncles originally worked down the pit and my Uncle Fred was agood footballer - he had trials with Doncaster but came back home. Harry Busby had a shop next to my ...see more
I was born in 1931, Middlesbrough. My parents were Thomas and Lily Hunt. My sister Sylvia, was born in 1937. From an early age, before and after Sylvia was born, mum would take us every August by bus to Durham city and on to Brandon Road, Eshwinning. There lived my Uncle Tom, Aunt Liza, and Uncle Jimmy. An older girl called Ursula was sometimes there, but I do not ...see more
My name is Matthew Mason and my granma Florence Breary, previously Mason, and Coxon before that, lived at 20 Ridding Road and some of the happiest and warmest memories I have were of the time I spent from my birth in 1961 to the time I left in 1966 for Edinburgh with my Mum and Dad and brother and sister. My Grandad was also Mattie Mason who died in the May of 1961 and his eldest son, my Dad was John Mason. He ...see more
I lived in Esh Winnning from about 1956 to 1968. My name was Hannon and my Dad was the Pharmacist, first for the Co-op and then in his own shop next to the fish and chip shop. My Mum had the hairdressers on Station Avenue. I married in 1968 in Waterhouses Church then left to move South. In 1987 we moved to Germany and in 1995 to France. I went to school in Esh Winning, first the Catholic Junior School and took my ...see more