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I lived in Lemington untill 1954 approx and we lived in the front row of the Pit Row houses. We could stand outside and watch the trains going past full of coal and wave to the drivers, playing on the pit heaps, wouldn't like the washing ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1953 by Rosemary Cawley

i was born in late 1949 in sugley street and currently live in the street directly opposite rokeby street with the school in the middle my name i s geoffrey watson although my surname was changed from hudspith when i was ...Read more

A memory of Lemington by gw4722

I was at Newburn Hall school in Lemington from 1940 to 1951 and I was wondering if anyone knows any of my class mates that attended with me or what has become of them. Eddie Ormston, Billy Smith, Ronny Curry, Billy Edwards, Jim Danskin ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1950 by George Ritson

It was 1941 or 42 - I was 6 or 7 then. I was a quiet kid, shy, only child. We lived in Walker, close to the Navel Yard. My dad was RAF in North Africa and Mom worked in the shipyard. So I was evacuated. After a ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1941 by Don Telford

My grandparents lived in the Lantern House. Granddad, William Gardner, was a shepherd; Granny Mary Eleanor was a midwife and nurse for the area. She used to ride with the Doctor in a horse and trap to visit their ...Read more

A memory of Wormleighton in 1940 by Roger Molesworth

In 1943 I worked on the Great Western Railway and sent by them to Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire as a locomotive fireman.  It was here that I met a young lady whose home was Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire.  She also worked in ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heyford by Roy Newton

Hi, I am wondering if I can use this site to find out more about the Staffords who lived at 27 Eva Street, Lemington. Thomas Stafford's son Ronald Charles Stafford married a Josephine Storey of Gateshead in 1972 and I am hoping ...Read more

A memory of Lemington by Patricia Lawlor

I lived in the white houses up Union Hall Road as a lad growing up. I went to school at the bottom of Lemington (Infant) then next door to (I think it was called) Newburn Hall, then to Waverley Cres, then we moved up to Claremont County ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1959 by Alan Taylor

YEAR 1953 The steam train was known as the Dilly, it would haul trucks with shale etc from Throckley to Lemington on a single track to where the pit heap was, the trucks would go into a shed one at a time and a huge barrel type thing ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

This is about 1951 and Millfield Lane was opposite the allotments and the clay field. On the dark nights we would tie thread to the door knockers and lead it across the road and up the bank to a grassy hollow where we could see but ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1951 by Jimmy Burrows