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Under the title "The Birth Of Easington Colliery", a 6,000 word article of mine has recently been published in the Journal of the North East Labour History Society,Volume 42 (2011). The article covers the ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1900 by Harry Barnes

I have recently discovered that my Great Grandfather John Main originally from Devon (a shoe maker) and then in Brixton, London as a Dairy Manager owned the Bell Hotel in Hare Street around 1905. My ...Read more

A memory of Buntingford in 1900 by Judith Irwin

In my Family History endeavours concerning a Shewan family , I have learned that the parents died at a relatively young age . The fate of the orphaned children has been difficult to ascertain. However , at ...Read more

A memory of Haddington in 1900 by R Urquhart

At the turn of the 20th century my great-grandparents, Mr & Mrs Fielding, had a tea room in the Piece Hall. They would open very early and supply tea, cakes and steamed fish (I believe) to the workers on the way to ...Read more

A memory of Halifax in 1900 by Ann Atherton

I'm researching my family history, and would like to hear from anyone who might know anything of Thomas Taylor (1823-96) a farmer, his son Thomas (1856-93) and daughter May Bell, after whom May Bell ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1900 by Rod Taylor

To the right of the Town Hall is Wote Street and my father Ronald was one of the sons that worked in Tyrrells fishmongers all of his life, he can remember delivering fish from a horse and cart, the fish shop has now gone, that was a sad day

A memory of Basingstoke in 1900 by Jon Tyrrell

My family moved from Sutton Bridge to Canada in or around 1912 or 1913. Looking for any family that may still be in that area. William Staines and his wife Rosa, and their 6 or 7 children left for Canada. Thanks, Lisa Freeman, in Canada

A memory of Sutton Bridge in 1900 by Lisa Freeman

Before the 1944 Education Act most children attended schools up to the age of 14 years then they left to seek employment unless they had been fortunate to secure a free place at a Grammar or Technical ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1900 by Will Clark

I was born in Barnet, but lived in Hatfield, 9 miles away. My grandfather was a stonemason and his father Walter Skinner had a Stonemasony business in East Barnet Road. Walter's father came from Wakerley, Northants, where ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1900 by Christine Newman

I am researching the Simmonds family who lived in Quay Lane in Hanley Castle about 1900. My father recalls the floods of the early 1900s when Quay Lane flooded and he was trapped up stairs with his mother, Alice Simmonds. ...Read more

A memory of Hanley Castle in 1900 by smmndssev