Gargrave, General View c.1955
Photo ref: G105007
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Photo of Gargrave, General View c.1955

A Selection of Memories from Gargrave

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 Gargrave

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Our grandparents, Arnold and Hilda Shea lived in Gargrave from 1935. He worked for Johnson and Johnson, I think he was an engineer. We three girls were born and lived in London. Every summer we would be put on the train at St Pancras and Grandpa would meet us at Skipton.. We loved those times and never wanted to return to London. Grandpa would take us for a drive when he finished work and we ...see more
This lamp post was commonly called The Gormless - I don't know to this day, why. We used to play chase round it and play marbles in the trough which you can see near the bottom.