Nostalgic memories of Gilberdyke's local history
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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I remember hopping over the wall into the school yard when I was late for roll call, and getting the cane for snowballing the headmaster from behind (I think I was about 6 at the time).
The building on the left is Cooks shop and you are looking up towards the Main Road. On the right in the foreground is the entrance to the Gilberdyke Memorial Hall & playing fields. Behind the Morris oxford is where the new fish shop and post office is now built. About in the middle of the photo on the left of the road was Chippy Dolans shop, a little wooden building that served the best chips in the world!
My memories of Arthur Gossop was going to buy nails from him, even as a small boy I was amused that you could buy them by weight. I cant remember how much a pound of nails cost, but it wasn't very much in money. In later years I used to deliver Sunday papers for Alan Williamson and the White Horse was the last stop to hand over the money and paper bags
Hi Susan, I have just read your message. I have happy memories of visits to Uncle Bert and Auntie Toppy when they lived in what I believe was called Railway Cottages, which were situated between two sets of railway lines. It was a young boy's dream to see steam trains thundering past (my age then being between about 3-10). I can remember walking alongside the track to take my Uncle Bert his lunch in the signal box and watching all the levers etc.
Happy Days!
My nana was Toppy Dixon (nee Gossop) and lived in the white house mentioned by Julia - actually the house was called Woodlands. My grandad was Bert Dixon, he worked in the signal box at Staddlethorpe Station.
I spent most of my pre-school years and many school holidays at Woodlands with my grandparents. I can remember learning to ride my 2-wheeler bike down the bridge in Sandholme Road, and playing ...see more
I have never been to Gilberdyke, but I recall that my grandmother, Ivy Ruston, took her 2 younger daughters, Mabel and Dorothy, to lodge in Gilberdyke when the bombing began in Hull. My grandfather, Harry Ruston, a signals inspector on the LNER railway, knew someone connected with the railway in Gilberdyke who offered Ivy and the girls a safe home away from the bombing. If anyone has any ...see more
My Grandparents Arthur and Gladys Gossop lived at Willow Garth, opposite the White Horse Pub. Grandad bought it with his Army money. He built a workshop, and began a business which included Wheelwright, Joiner and Contractor. He made coffins and walked in funeral processions with his best top hat on. He put piped water, WCs and a bathroom into the house, and did the same in Dad's house in York. He had a ...see more
Moved into Sandholme Road in 1954 from Howden. Father and grandfather bought The Cottages at auction and I lived there until going to college in 1970. My parents stayed there until 1983 when they moved into Laburnum Walk, where my mother still lives. Typical of many villages of the type, walk through it once and you have seen it twice. Living as I do now in Bedlington, Northumberland it is quite a ...see more