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My grandfather Thomas Edwin Mantle had a grocery and creamery in Newgate Street. He died before I was born but strangely my father Herbert Clayton eventually had his own store in Newgate Street, it was called H Clayton esquire, ...Read more

A memory of Bishop Auckland in 1900 by Marion Klein

Responding to Judi Parry's memory of visiting Johnshaven and her mother's surname of Low, I hae a single census record (1901) of my great uncle David Low at the age of 19 being a blacksmith apprentice at the blacksmith's bothy, ...Read more

A memory of Johnshaven in 1900 by James Mc Carthy

On the 1901 census my great-aunt's son Christopher Lodge and his wife Elizabeth (nee Williamson) are living at 87 Crow Trees, Lower Bentham with their daughter Marjery (b.1901) and he is listed as an engine driver. In 1911 they are ...Read more

A memory of Low Bentham in 1900 by Yvonne Owen

Some time in the 1980s, my mother Dorothy visited her gt-aunt Rhoda Wood (b1901), who had lived in the same cottage, 15 Chirbury Road, Montgomery, all her life, one of 10 children of Charles (b1849) and Ellen Wood ...Read more

A memory of Chirbury in 1900 by Gillian Morgan

I have no memories of Barnet myself but I have recently learned since my dad passed away that my grandad came from Barnet and was born there by all accounts. His name was William George Wanstall, born on the 22nd January 1907, his mother ...Read more

A memory of Barnet in 1900 by Angie Nolan

Ormerod House passed out of the Ormerod family when the male line died out and the three daughters of the last Ormerod married. Their husbands were John Hargreaves, a local coal mine owner, the Rev William Thursby who became vicar of ...Read more

A memory of Burnley in 1900 by Claire Allen

My Mother, Alice Rae Gibson Clark Mackay was born in Loch Eriboll in 1902. Ive visited the wee hamlet many times, and met the Clarke family, currently the land owners, who have a home at the crook of the road, amidst an array ...Read more

A memory of Loch Eriboll in 1900 by Ellis Brayham

My mother Alice Harpham & family lived here. She was born 1904 at Dunham, along with John Thomas, Rose, Herbert, Edith, Margaret, & Sydney John. When I searched my family tree, I had been told by my cousin Evelyn in 1980 ...Read more

A memory of Dunham on Trent in 1900 by Marion Wilkinson

This early motor wagonette was probably operated by J. Fred Francis from Colwyn Bay to Old Colwyn for a three-penny fare until the coming of the Trams in March 1915. It succeeded a two horse omnibus which ran between the two ...Read more

A memory of Old Colwyn in 1900 by John Owen

My Grandad, George Creasey Allen, and my Nana Allen married and settled in South Norwood in 1899. They lived at Addison Road before renting a house at 32 Apsley Road. Grandad got a job at Creasey's ...Read more

A memory of South Norwood in 1900 by John Howard Norfolk