Queensbury, Black Dyke Mills c.1960
Photo ref: Q15007
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Photo ref: Q15007
Photo of Queensbury, Black Dyke Mills c.1960

A Selection of Memories from Queensbury

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Queensbury

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I was born in Wellington Street on the 16th. of June 1955. My mother was Kate Holland, formerly Henderson. and my father was George E Holland. Sadly he passed away in 1939. So I dont remember very much about him. I had a great time in my younger years, swimming at the Vic baths, walking down Station Road to the station and buying a penny bar of chocolate from the machine on the wall. My schooling was at ...see more
My father was born "on the road to Queensbury", as I was told. He grew up in the Queensbury/Mountain/Bradford area and I have ties to those places still. Dad came to the U.S.A. in 1927 and lived with an aunt who had come earlier. I have always been connected to my family in the UK, writing to my grandmother and aunt and my cousins. I was able to visit in 2007 and what a wonderful trip that was. I truly felt like I ...see more
That road surface is still there to this day, lol. #councilresurfacetheroad.
as a young girl I spent time at lane side visiting my grandma smith who lived at no 21smy auntie sarah also live at no 17 with my cousins tommy and Christine in the school holidays we also played with the Kershaw girls at the big house across the road when the girls Jennifer and jane were home from boarding school the grounds of there house were magic I also remember anne Gibson and her brother