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I lived in Burham probably 1948 to mid fifties. Does anyone remember the old camp site over the hill at the crossroads of Church St. & Court Rd.
At these crossroads stood 17 big elm trees, the camp was setup for displaced people with Nissan huts & some brick buildings, it was an old Army camp as it still had the old gun sites there, we used to play in them & catch newts in the underground shelters.
Does anyone have any photos of this? if so can they please share?
Thanks, Max
When I was going out with my now husband of over fourty eight years, in the early sixties, we used to go to the Parrot pub and we thought it was by the river? We have been back a few times and it is no longer by the river? There is a lot of new office buildings close to the river so we are confused and wondered if anyone else has memories of this. We met while working at Hugh Wyllie in Guildford and that building is ...see more
Must have been in the early 1970s when I allowed myself to be roped in as an instructor, along with Charles Sheldrick, of Charlwoods Road, and three others; to my shame, I can't properly remember their names. One was a plumber who lived in Charlwoods Road (first house on the left coming out of Kennedy Avenue); His surname may have been Westfield, or Westlake. Then there was an ...see more
How exciting it was to find the Reference to Elm Farm. As a boy I grew up on Elm Farm and remember very fondly collecting eggs up in the hay barn & milking the cows. Mrs Tompkins was my mum, selling eggs & produce. I can still smell the tractor fumes when we were harvesting hay. I also had a lot of fun going down to the duck pond. I had gone to Bletchley Primary School.
Regards Bruce
I lived with my parents in the right hand side of the white house shown above (almost opposite the W & D bus station) from 1938-57. The house to the left with a hedge around the door was a small private girls school in my early memories
As the war built up we saw servicemen and women, our own, and from many countries we had previously only read about. I saw Queen Mary, having ...see more
I remember Fred and Jack Fryer, and a son if I remember correctly who went in the navy. I would often wait on the beach at night beside their lantern which would guide them back to shore after an evenings fishing.
Did Jack move to Felixstowe? I stayed with my grandparents in Hill House, their name was Gunthorpe. I played in the woods with my bows and arrows: dived through the waves: collected live .303 rounds ...see more
My father, Syd Cheale, was an evangelist with the European Christian Mission and we cared for many children and teenagers at Farleigh Dene in Cliddesden, Basingstoke. Dad and Mum told them about the Bible and Christianity. My parents prayed for many years for a revival in the Churches and a Charismatic Revival began in our very home there in Cliddesden in the 1960s. It was the start of the Charismatic ...see more
My mother as a young girl, together with her sister, were orphaned and found a home by a Liverpool society at Llanfairfechan. She remembered a plaque on the wall of the home to the young men who had died during the great war. She remembered the Balmoral Hotel as being very luxurious place to stay and the near tragedy of a group of Jewish children who came on holiday to Llanfairfechan, they mistook the ...see more
Hi, my surname was Brooker then when I attended like yourselves - was good memories. Sr Ita and Sr Shelia were my favourites I must admit. I went to the school reunion - it was good to catch up with a lot people I didn't even know, but was good. Its now an old peoples home - hope they are all happy there like we once were. If Marie Bedwell reads this, it be great to catch up with you after all these years.
This view of A La Ronde is little changed from 2013 - perhaps less greenery growing up the walls and better formal flower bed planting near the entrance. What made the visit special for me was being encouraged to play their grand piano. Its an unusual one made around 1870 by the Gebruder Knake workshop of Munster, Germany. The room stewards at this National Trust property are friendly and helpful and when they ...see more
I must have been lying in my pram as my oldest memory is of seeing a large formation of planes flying overhead.
Some years later, it must have been a very hot summer's day, a convoy of trucks passed by with the remains of crashed planes on them. We saw them out of the open door of primary 2 as they drove along Lochwinnoch Road towards the Cross.
I've many other memories of the Village I was born in and grew up in.
l remember the pit tubs running under the houses to the colliery where my dad worked down the mines, and when we used to chuck his snap over to him when the tub ran past. Also remember the bleak cold winters when it snowed and we had to dig our way out of the snow to get out of the front door. Also to get to the toilets, which were outside in the yard - some times it was that cold in there, ...see more
We moved to collyhurst in the 60's I lived at 6 Central Drive, my name then was Wilds. I went to St Malachy's school, my teacher was Miss Hugh's. I also remember Miss Le-hey and Sister Madeleine. When I was about 13/14 I helped behind the counter at Dobsons. My parents were Mary and Jimmy, my sister Linda and brothers Tommy and John. I remember Rafflo the ice-cream man, Bristow the coal man, Fanny ...see more
A cracking wee place, born in Edingburgh, but used to visit a pal of my brother's Richard (Tich Duncan) his sister Scoots is still in the village, I liked nitten so much I bought a house there?, 13 years now, my kids have all grown up here, great days, anyone should think about a visit, great museum and a cracking wee place.
I lived in Hickman Road and went to Montgomery St School from1945 to 1951, if anyone remembers me please phone 01527 757017 or 07813499543. Annette Tomlinson now Finn Mr Issacs was the headmaster then, I also remember Mr Stone and Mr Roycroft I would really like to catch up
My grandfather, John Green, lived in Market Drayton and was a conjuror, entertainer, guitarist, ventriloquist and artist. My grandmother was Annie Caroline Green and they had 7 children. Does anyone have any memories of the family.
Yes the bakers was Parkers, but before that it was called "Fowlers" and that name was in the mosaic floor in their doorway. They used to do lovely cream cakes.
My mum who had moved to Southall in 1932, went to Western Road School just round the corner from Derley Road where she lived. I followed in her footsteps and also went to Western Road School, but that was after it amalgamated with Featherstone Secondary ...see more
My name in the sixties was Marilyn Pooley, I lived at St Blazey and went to Fowey School. I have been raising my family for the last 40 years and now fancy looking back at my younger days. One of the things I would like to do is get hold of some copies of my school photos. I'm very new at this computer thing, so hope this reaches the right places. I'm sure there must be other people out ...see more
Hi, I have been looking for a site like this so I could look back at Pinehurst. I was the longest serving boy at the home - went in at 8 and came out at 16. 1979 was when I started a good life there. I have so many great memories of Pinehurst and all the boys and staff, it would be great to catch up with some of them and re-live the good old days. I did go back to get some photos of the house only to find that it ...see more
I am trying to find some photographs and/or information re the dairy manager's house in Shurnhold, I believe it was a Co-Op dairy and that the house was not only the manager's accommodation but also partly a shop. Above the main entrance (front door) is the date 1886, although I believe that the original part of the building is older. Any information or photos at all would be gratefully received, thanks in advance.
We lived in Meadfield Road about that time and our house caught fire, just before Christmas 1983.
Hi Jane
Are your a sister of James? (or Jimmy Lawrence).
He used to live in Colney Road, just around the corner from where I lived in the late 1950s to mid 1960s.
I remember playing on our pogo sticks, and seeing who could do the most "jumps"!!.
Great fun. I also remember going around to his house and playing in his back garden.
I seem to also remember he was related to a Graham Dillaway? He lived in the next road to Mildred Close.
Was this used by Mrs Cobb who ran the Brownies in Bedford to bring children for a weeks holiday during the summer holidays? Any I formation on this building please thanks.
Mrs Cobb from Bedford would bring children for a weeks holiday during the summer holidays. They stayed in a large white building on a corner (there was a dairy farm across the road), it was like a community hall, maybe it was used by the Brownies or something! It was walking distance to the beach. They would walk along a long lane down to the beach. I am not 100% sure of the details but if anyone has any memories of this or information I would be grateful, thanks.
I started at Kettering Tyres, Wellingborough, in 1979 after leaving school. I loved that job, worked with Peter. They had an old petrol pump outside where the bosses used to fill their Jags, as head office was over the road was taken over by tsGB not the same.
I used to live in Lawrie Park Gardens from 1955 until 1962 and the local youngsters used to congregate at the big tree on the roundabout at the end of Lawrie Park Avenue. At times there were around 10-15 of us all sitting chatting and just hanging out there. Some of the kids came from Chulsa Road flats and some from Sydenham itself. The ones I remember the most were Terry Maidment, John Unwin, Dave Basset, ...see more
I lived in Thornton Rd, went to school at Old Cenral, Camp Rd, used to walk passed the pond to school, in the thick smog's we would have got lost if we didn't hold hands. My friends and I had many happy years playing on the common. In 1954, aged 11, I went to Queens Road school. At 15 I started work at Charles the hairdressers in St Georges Rd. In 1960 my mum went to manage my uncle's guest house in ...see more
I was born in 1954 at home in George Street, Low Valley, in what was known as Company Row, presumably as it was built my mine-owners to house their workers.
It was a two up two down terrace next to the "entry" where people could gain entry to the shared backyard. We had an outside toilet, no running hot water, no electricity, gas lights and coal fires.
Hardly the good old days in ...see more
Roman Road, Mountnessing. My great grandfather, John Waller, lived in one of the cottages just down from the George & Dragon pub. I believe it is now an Indian, and at one time was a restaurant. He died in the 60s aged about 95 and he told my dad at the age of 92 that he was getting old as he could not climb up his apple trees anymore! He had electricity finally put into the cottage in 1965, just so as he could ...see more
Me and that lampost know each other quite well, my dad and I were walking towards Cob's Corner to catch the No 12 bus home from having our hair cut at Mr Davy's, the Cypriot barbers at the bottom of the high street. For what ever the reason, I was walking and looking the wrong way - my dad called just to late and "smack" there it was. He fell about laughing - I just balled. My mum had more sympathy. This huge lump was just made to look biger with my short hair.
Wayne
12 years ago, I found a new family that I didn't know I had, including a half sister!
My gran had died at only 32 in Carlisle and my grandad moved to Grangemouth when he married his second wife. I thought that my dad was Scottish until then, as he talked about Grangemouth a lot (he died when I was aged 10 so can't remember too much). He said that his stepmother wasn't nice to him and his brothers, so ...see more
We moved here from Coventry in about 1956-1957, it was a 22 foot mobile home. We met Jack and Rene Linford who had an adopted daughter, Carol Linford, same age as me. "Uncle " Jack as I called him used to take us to school in Bulkington. They had a gorgeous bungalow nr the Junction of Marston Lane. Their daughter died aged only 21 there in about 1972 . He had an engineering business in Nuneaton. They ...see more
Hello. I did not live in Grangetown but loved the bus ride through it on the way to Redcar for a day out. Leaving South Bank on the right hand side of the road there was a row of houses with grassy front gardens and long paths leading up to the front door. As we lived in a row house with a pavement front and a back yard, I always envied the people their `country homes`. Funny how things are through a child`s eyes. ...see more
Another thing that I remember was bath night. Notice I said night and not nights!!
We had a tin bath which had to be filled up by boiling kettles and saucepans. My young brother would go in first, then me, after me was mummy, and last was daddy!! What ever would health and safety have to say about that today!! We were, however, one of the first houses in our street to have an inside toilet and ...see more
I had the perfect Job for me when I was 10. John (Jacky) Robinson had me working for him on the horse and cart. Fridays and Saturdays you could hear us walking the streets of Easington - our famous yell was "ANY STICKS OR LOGS MISSUS ORAYELUMBA". Sundays would be pop day "ANY POP TODAY MISSUS". I still remember the time we came back from a run down south and we were turning at the Black Diamond ...see more
My dad was born in 1909 in Flamborough. This photo is significant to me because, as a young man, my dad helped to install the winding equipment in the old winding shed on the left hand side of this picture. This photo has changed in as much as there are now not as many boats based in Flamborough. Sadly there is no lifeboat stationed at North Landing in the Lifeboat Station but the building is still ...see more
When I was a child my parents use to take my sister and I to Bridlington on the train from Hull for 2 weeks holiday a year. It was magic land to us. My dad was born and brought up in Flamborough but moved to live in Hull during the war years. So our holidays in Bridlington were very much a part of our lives during our formative years. We use to play on the sands with our bucket and spades. ...see more
I was born in 1934 and lived on the Stratford Road on the hill above the College Road Pub. I went to College Road School from 1939 to 1949 and wonder if anyone remembers me. I also went to the Springfield Ballroom. We lived opposite the bungalows. I moved to Scotland in 1962.
Cheers.
Sheila Beck
I have fond memories of Bilton Road. I was born at west Middlesex hospital but lived at 172 Bilton Road between 1955 and 1966. We used to make a guy every year for Guy Fawkes night and stand outside Martins newsagents collecting, as soon as we got anything we would go in and buy fireworks. Also I remember the Home and Colonial Stores with its green and cream marble floor and counters. My mother, Maureen, was a nurse ...see more
Hello. My dad, Horace Jenkins, worked as a coach lettering painter for British Rail in Thornaby for most of his life. He died at 17 The Larches, Teesville in 1953 at the age of 46. He was the best lettering painter in the yard. When one of the Royal family were visiting Darlington station my dad was chosen to go to the station to have the trains looking their best. He took great pride in his ...see more
Hello. My grandparents and family lived at No 5 Whitehall Street opposite from West Park. The houses were originally `well to do` and had been transformed into upper and lower flats. The fronts had bay windows. I remember the street seemed quite steep to me as a child and had a railing down at the bottom where the street crossed Stanhope Road. My grandfather was Robert William Futers who died in 1950. My two ...see more
I'm not sure which of the wooden houses I lived in with my dad, Albert Croft and mum Clara Croft. I have a pic with me on my dad's bike and another cleaning the hens out and later getting the eggs, I was only 2 or 3. But I think it was this one as there was a pathway through the edge to the bungalow (Shangri-La, in the left background) that my dad built with his dad and uncles. Later, in ...see more
I started my musical career at the Leas Cliff Hall. Worked in Murdoch's music shop at 15 yrs. I was on the beach with mother during WW1 when Tontine Street was bombed - amazing because I asked Mum to stay longer or we could have been one of the 29 casualties.
I was born in Wallace Street, Dumbarton, August 13th 1959 in my grandparent's (Andrew and Mabel Aitken) house named "Bourtree". My other grandparents (Jim and Margaret Brash) lived directly across the road in their house named "Cloughfin". My dad, Mitchell Aitken, a local footballer of some repute having played for Vale of Leven and Shettleston, having married my mum, Irene Aitken (nee Brash) moved in with ...see more
A Kilbirnie woman, over on holiday from Boston, decided to go to a farm day out. Mrs Liz Stewart was 92 at the time, Liz was very capable in dealing with the public and she was used to horses. Liz made a bee line to the Clydesdale horses and stroked them on the nose. An attendant shouted at Liz in front of everyone, don't touch the horses madam, how would you like to be stroked by thousands of people every summer. ...see more
My mum, Margaret Lane, worked at Red Lion Pub lunchtime shifts cooking in the kitchen and would take me and my younger brother Martin there with her during school holidays. I remember the dumb waiter going up and down from the kitchen to the bar with cooked food, not entirely sure of the year, but this was one of my early memories so I was probably about 5 or 6 and remember being spoilt by the landlords.
As children, my two brothers and I would go to visit Nannan (my paternal grandmother) at Wells Bottom Farm, near Sowerby Bridge, Ripponden. We would stop at the Blue Bell Inn for a drink of pop, the highlight of the long car ride from Oldham. When I look up her name - Gaukroger, I see that there was many of that name in and around there.
Wells Bottom Farm, had the main house two cottages attached and a dark old ...see more
Most of my life was spent in Stourbridge although I came from Amblecote and went to school in Wordsley. Mom used to take me to Mary Stevens Park as I took my son in later years. I used to love the swingboat seesaw and the roundabout where you had to hang on. There was also a paddling pool that was filled in hot weather as most parks had then. It probably wasn't hygienic but we loved it. It ...see more
Born in the front room on Belgrave Road in 1953, I have fond memories of visiting my grandad and grandma in their little house on Peel Street. A typical two up, two down.
The front step would be pumiced bright yellow every morning and the house would smell of snuff. There was a long dark wool blanket hung behind the front door to keep the cold out, and pinned back in summer. In the back was a sink to wash ...see more
We were student nurses at Treloars from Sept 56 to Sept 58. We have fond memories of our time at Treloars and we would love to hear from anyone from that set. Jenny "Chis" Wining (nee Christoffel) Mary Blake (nee Harris)
We lived in Knowles Hill Cres as young parents with a baby girl and we used to go shopping in Safeways on a Friday . We went to the toy shop on my daughters 4th birthday to buy her a doll but came home with a trainset. We had her photo taken with santa in Chiesmans but we left Lewisham in 1969.
I was born in the Witton end of Handsworth, so I relate more to Aston really. Albert Road School as a little girl, I still have a group picture of Class 2.1932. Canterbury Road Girl's School at 11 and Aston Commercial School in wartime. Evacuation split the school, then a bomb in front of the Ettington Road Fire Station closed the school. I have never seen such a huge hole that bomb dug, I've always compared it to ...see more
I lived in Spencer Rd throughout the war years, our house was one of the look alike houses at the junction of Shakespear Rd and Spencer Rd, just over from Tuck Taylor's shop. I left in 1950 to complete my National Service and returned two years later. On my return I married and moved away. My best friends were Jimmy Winslade, who lived in Churchfild Rd and Lawson Fox who lived in Woodhurst Rd. My other good friends were the ...see more
Jake Stewart the cobbler shoemaker lived and worked at a house known as The Breest. Jake had an Alsatian dog named Cleo. That dog would let you in the shoemakers shop but it lay down across the door and would not let you out until you had paid for your purchase. Many people remember this, DO YOU?
People have been asking the name of the pony which was kept in the park where Presto shop used to be. The pony was called DINKY. Also been asked to verify who owned the chicken runs or hen houses in that same area. Airchie Allan was one, Wullie Mcgookin and Joe Carey.
I was a choir boy here from circa 1948/49 with my brother Ken and later on my sister Pam, until my voice broke. Miss Reeves was the organist and she had a little Morris Minor with an unforgettable number plate FCG 115 ( She told us it stood for Fair Charming Girl) and who could forget, who to us, was such a lovely 'old lady'.
The vicar at the time was, I think, Rev Seaford who was superseded by Rev Christopher Eastwood who amongst his many accomplishments started the 1st Cowlpain Scout Group.
I well remember my school days at Watford Chater Junior School from 1957 to 1964, getting sick from drinking to much school milk, as class milk monitor with my friend Victor Oliver. Getting a splinter in my bottom, and having to wait for Miss James to come and remove it in the shelter sheds, after everybody had gone home. The lunch time acted out wars in the playground, some children had large Union ...see more
I remember lots of my old school friends names. I was born in Brentford, I went to Ealing Road School first. Then to Brentford Secondry Modern School. We moved to Bedford in 1961. I remember many of my old school friend's names.
Hi my name is Doug Wilson.
This site brought back so many memories. I was born in a bungalow in Wingletye Lane in August 1954 but moved to Great Gardens Road when I was 9 months old.
From the time that I was allowed to cross the road on my own (was not very old -so few cars around then and my parents drummed into me to look both ways), I spent most of my time in Haynes Park: playing on the roundabout, playing pick ...see more
I was born in Rugeley. I first lived in Green Lane near the corner of Hageley Road. The old houses have been demolished, there is town houses now on the site. I then moved to Attlee Crescent it was good in them days as you knew most of the people. My first school was in Church Street, then moved to the boys school in Litchfield street, it was where the church stands now. My last school was the Hageley Park ...see more
Peter Twist, British test pilot flew over Elmer in 1955 and 1956.
I remember our family looking up and seeing, at a height of seven miles, an aircraft flying. Then waiting for the sonic BOOM. He flew between RAF Ford airbase to the Solent in the record attempt.
My uncle who owned the Elmer Close home ,(wooded bungalow) had a black Humber car like the photo.
My mother, Doreen Hall (nee Bilton) has narrated these memories to me:
I started nursing at St James’ Hospital, Leeds (Jimmy's) in 1948. I was 17 years old, the only one straight from school.
I didn’t need any qualifications – but I had my school certificate. (See more of these memories under Leeds).
I was at Jimmies for 3 years but was allowed to stay for a while as a staff ...see more
I was 8 yrs old and lived in Limes Ave. One night the air raid siren sounded and my mum put me and my baby brother under the table, just as bombs were dropping! A few houses were hit. My father at that minute came rushing in. He had been at the Bramford Cock Inn where he played the piano. As our house was badly damaged we had to find somewhere temporarily to live, Dad said he knew a friend in Duckamere who would ...see more
My mother, Doreen Hall (Nee Bilton) has related these memories to me:
I started nursing at St James’ Hospital, Leeds (Jimmy's) in 1948. I was 17 years old, the only one straight from school. I was at Jimmies for 3 years but was allowed to stay for a while as a staff nurse after I had passed my exam as my friend had to do a re-take and we wanted to go together to do midwifery in ...see more
My mother, Doreen Hall (Nee Bilton), related these memories to me:
I started nursing at St James’ Hospital, Leeds (Jimmy's) in 1948. I was 17 years old, the only one straight from school. I didn’t need any qualifications – but I had my school certificate. There were about three months of training before going onto the wards – a training school was attached to the hospital with two tutors; one was Miss ...see more
I was born in 1949 to Nellie and Ashford DISNEY. We lived at 15 Albert Road, and my father worked in the Post Office at BATH'S on the Weston Road. Mr. William Bath was my father's uncle. Before Mummy and Daddy got married, Mummy used to work in the Post Office as well. - that's how they met. Our neighbours were called Mary and Joseph Packer and every Christmas we had a card from Mary and Joseph. As a ...see more
We came to live in the centre of Collessie nearly three years ago, and it is a beautiful, quiet hamlet that is truly untouched by the modern world that surrounds it. The village is a peaceful haven with a play park where you can just sit on a bench in the shade of a tree and listen to the birds singing, and enjoy gazing out over beautiful rolling fields stretching out in front of you up to ...see more
I was born in 1951 and have many very happy memories of visiting my aunty Dolly and uncle Joe in the 1950's and 1960's. They lived in Queens Road but I can't remember the house number. Their house backed onto the railway goods yards and my uncle was an engine driver on the wonderful steam trains. I can still picture their house and back garden and can remember watching the trains and hearing the ...see more
Hi, I lived in the village when I was a boy. I went to the junior school. My dad worked on a farm, we lived next door to the farm. My friends were Pat Jennings and Gordon Petch, we did everything together, lots of fun, school games, football and fishing in the river. My grandad came to live with us and we had wonderful times, he was green keeper at Elsham Golf Club for a while - I remember ...see more
I've recently moved into a flat at 20 Manor Road, and just interested to know if anyone has any history of the building or its tenants/owners back in the 1800's? Thank you, Nicola
My mom was adopted by a couple in 1938 who lived in Northcroft Lane. My mom has been deceased for 12 years now and while she was alive, told us very little of the life she had in Newbury and we are now trying to piece things together. We know that she went to Newbury Grammar School up to 1954 and that is that! My mom's name was Florence Audrey Pearce although her real name was Keep. She was born in Kintbury Holt 1936. Any one know her or of her?
Sue
Hello, I am researching my family tree, well my mom's real mother's family, as she was adopted in Newbury. My mom was born in Kintbury Holt in 1936. She was an unmarried mother with no man on the certificate. Does anyone have any ideas as to where she may have been living in Kintbury Holt - she was 20 years old and her occupation was at the time French polisher at cabinet makers although two years later she was a ...see more
I worked on the markets in Darwen for G. & S. Whitaker and sons after school. We had two stalls, one selling bedding stuff, and the other shirts, and mens clothing etc. When I left Spring Bank School they offered me a full time job with them. When the market had all packed up and mostly gone, we used to run on the stalls and jump across from one stall to anouther, fun fun fun.
I am puzzled as to which year this photo was taken. It must have been very late fifties because my earliest memory of The Rest Garden, as we called it, was when it was still recognizeable as a graveyard. The gravestones (many of them) still stood surrounded by long grass although many of them unreadable. There were no organized flower beds but in the spring it was one mass of daffodils. The gateway, on the ...see more
I lived with my mum and dad Frank and Gladys Shadbolt (nee Roots) in Woodbine Grove, surrounded by family, grandparents, Bob and Mary Roots also from Woodbine and my Nanny Shadbolt who lived in Hawthorne Grove. I went back recently and wish I hadn't, I will stick to the great memories I have growing up there. We moved to 80 Queen Adelaide Court when the council slapped a compulsory purchase on our house but I ...see more
I have very fond memories of Bearman's and the Christmas Wonderland ride is still very vivid in my mind 50 odd years later.
My grandmother took me there to buy bridesmaid headdresses for my ballet classes and I was fascinated by the cartons containing money from the tills, whizzing overhead to a small kiosk where it was collected. I ...see more
My memories of the Market Hall were around the smashing bands that used to play. The one that stands out is Joe Brown and his Bruvvers. We would dance the night away, jive being the most popular (if you could find the room).
The place used to be packed but we didn't care, because it was the 'in' place to be and
afterwards we would all pile into the Burger Bar for a coffee before getting our buses home. Lovely days.
My mum was also born in the Nursery at West Auckland and later moved to Bishop Auckland. She has loads of memories of both places. Do you remember the matchstick bridge and getting lettuce and spring onions from the allotment holders on a Sunday? Also brambling and having the odd bit of raw turnip from the fields over the river.
Hi, we used to live at Wales Bar in the 1960s and we got a house at Kiveton Park as my dad worked at the colliery. We lived on Stockwell Avenue (White City) for about 2 years then moved to Lambrell Green, as my mother took transfered miners in from the north. I used to go to Kiveton and Hartill youth clubs, played football for Kiveton Park Colliery and the Sunday ...see more
Hi, my father went to work on the farm at Binbrook for Mr Holmes in 1957, and my brother John, sister Anne all played on the farm and went to school in a taxi with Mr Holmes' daughter Janice. I remember the pony, Twinkletoes, he used to run after you and nip your backside if you got caught - this was crossing his field as a short cut instead of using the farm lane. We enjoyed going to the school in Binbrook ...see more