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My grandmother used to tell me stories of Gateshead days when I was a kid, for example Tommy-on-the Bridge, area Bottle Bank, apparently was a permanent fixture in those days, he stood on the Swing Bridge, might have been ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1890 by Derek Bell

My father Cornelius Henry Johns (Naily to everyone who knew him) was born in the little Round House on the left of the photo. He was the youngest of a large family, and there were 11 people living there in 1899. They then moved ...Read more

A memory of Veryan in 1890 by Donald Johns

The Cornish side of my family (Penberthy's) came from Hayle and were mostly all coppersmiths and engineers, apprenticed in Ventonleague I believe, but like many of the Cornish, they had to leave for a better life elsewhere at the ...Read more

A memory of Hayle in 1890 by Marrick Taylor

This is a memory from my own childhood when my grandmother used to tell me about her life as a child mill worker. Born in 1885, she died when I was 8 years old, and I so much wish I had more details of who the real Fanny ...Read more

A memory of Oldham in 1890 by Jackie Worrall

From Parish magazine - Fittleton:- IN MEMORIAM - JAMES YEATES On February 2nd the Feast of Purification there passed to his rest one who will be long missed in this parish. James Yeates was born June 18 1817 in the ...Read more

A memory of Fittleton in 1890