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Julian's hunt story is almost right. I was living at the Chalk Pit at the time, and still do. It was about 1981, on a Saturday lunchtime, when the hunt came over the top, but it wasn't on Boxing Day.  The hounds were chasing Hares. ...Read more

A memory of Odiham in 1981 by Sally Tunstell

Does anyone recall the old Wath Pavillion Club? I have so many happy memorries of my teens visiting 'the pav', as it was known. I lived in Denaby but visited the pav one weekend with a friend, it was there I met ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1987 by Harry Woodhouse

I've fond memories of playing over at the gravel pit down Dark Lane in Blackfield and when my dad drove for Hall Aggregates in the 1970s.

A memory of Blackfield in 1982 by Jamie Bynam

My mother originated from Nelson Village and took us for our first visit when I was twelve years old. Her father (Joseph Heslop) worked down the pits, sadly he passed away before I was born. We met another ...Read more

A memory of Nelson Village in 1985 by Davina Smith

The Photograph above has never changed much from then to even now 2007. to the right as you look at the photograph ( I with my husband jeff and my two sons lived behind the shops). Mr Snowdon had his shop along with his ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1984 by Karen Surtees

When we moved to Spinkhill in 82 there were many people who had lived in the village for quite some time. Gerard Cross and his two sisters Beryl and Agnes were one family. Beryl was a teacher at Spinkhill School for many ...Read more

A memory of Spinkhill in 1982 by Anita Staniforth

My grandad used to work at South Kirkby pit for many years, so growing up I was forever hearing stories of his days down the mine. Being a very inquisitive child I would spend hours exploring, even though my grandad used to tell ...Read more

A memory of South Kirkby in 1985 by Mark Adams

Buying matchbox cars in what used to be the Post Office, sometimes after nursey school, my mum and I would walk up there and pick one out from the glass display case at the front of the shop. That's in the days when matchbox cars came ...Read more

A memory of Elworth in 1982

To all the young 'ens of that era or anyone else - who remembers walking down and up the self beaten footpath behind the long established fish & chip shop opposite the old Heppinstall's general store (long since gone), to the ...Read more

A memory of Thornhill Lees in 1983 by Martin Bird

I purchased Outlands in 1987 for £70,000, it was and still is my dream home with so much potential, we are still on generator and spring water, the river Camel with salmon and trout fishing is on one boundary and a stream on another boundry ...Read more

A memory of Bodmin in 1987 by David Newton