Gilberdyke, Main Road c.1960

Photo ref: G155002

I remember hopping over the wall into the school yard when I was late for roll call, and getting the cane for snowballing the headmaster from behind (I think I was about 6 at the time).

The building on the left is Cooks shop and you are looking up towards the Main Road. On the right in the foreground is the entrance to the Gilberdyke Memorial Hall & playing fields. Behind the Morris oxford is where the new fish shop and post office is now built. About in the middle of the photo on the left of the road was Chippy Dolans shop, a little wooden building that served the best chips in the world!

My memories of Arthur Gossop was going to buy nails from him, even as a small boy I was amused that you could buy them by weight. I cant remember how much a pound of nails cost, but it wasn't very much in money. In later years I used to deliver Sunday papers for Alan Williamson and the White Horse was the last stop to hand over the money and paper bags

Hi Susan, I have just read your message. I have happy memories of visits to Uncle Bert and Auntie Toppy when they lived in what I believe was called Railway Cottages, which were situated between two sets of railway lines. It was a young boy's dream to see steam trains thundering past (my age then being between about 3-10). I can remember walking alongside the track to take my Uncle Bert his lunch in the signal box and watching all the levers etc. Happy Days!