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Bircotes, The Miners Welfare Institute c.1965
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Memories of Bircotes, the Miners Welfare Institute c1965

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. These memories are of Bircotes, The Miners Welfare Institute c.1965

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If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

I left Bircotes in 1965 for South Africa but I still remember some people from the past... Caroline and Jacqueline Thompson (our parents were best mates), Patricia Stubbs (her parents had the corner shop in Harworth) and Roger Parkin who lived at the top of our street, Chuch Road. My mom's cousin, Lily Hancock, had a hair salon in Harworth. My nanna was Mary Ann Jones, and she came to SA 5 years after us when grandad, ...see more
I remember that it was a nice building.