Mansfield Woodhouse, J. E. Cooke's Shop, High Street c.1955

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I remember living on Coke Street when we first came to live in Woodhouse from Sheffield. I remember going to Annie shop on the end of our street. The Rocks as we called it. Going to paling coal yard in the corner getting coal in an old pram. My dad and his family came from woodhouse . I remember the Chapel and Sunday school there. I have a lot of memories of Woodhouse. But I don't want to bore you with it. Keep safe Carole-Anne.

Actually Shane Fenton/ Alvin Stardust original name was Bernard Jury(Hope I spelt that right). My brother went to school with him at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Mansfield. Sadly now a comprehensive coed. Also all the trees leading up to the school have been destroyed for what reason I cannot comprehend. Alvin Stardust died not so long ago. My family moved to Mansfield not ...see more

I don't know if my memory is serving me right, but I seem to remember a shop on the corner of castle street serving lemonade and other cold drinks in a glass in the early 1950s can't remember the price a penny maybe, the shop was on the way home from the Tivoli pictures. Brian Sales late Leeming lane south.

I can remember going in J E Cooke shop for chocolate and papers, and just past this shop on the left was Amblers fish shop where we went for our fish and chips. On the other side of the road I went into the butchers for meat with my mum, then we would call into Jessops chemist and on the way back home we would call in Marsden for butter cheese and other things. When I had my two boys I used to take them to ...see more