Nostalgic memories of Misterton'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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Old Mr Wilson as we knew him, used to walk the cows to his field letting them graze the verges. They all had names and were very gentle. When they got too old to milk, he still kept them. Some lived until they were 30. His farm is behind them on the left.
The chapel shown on the right of the photo was the Primitive Methodist Chapel, which I attended as a child. The highlight of the year was the Sunday School Anniversary with Mr Kellington conducting the singing and Margaret Bramhill/Charman (my piano teacher) playing the organ. As well as the anniversary services in the chapel, we also went round the village, singing our anniversary hymns on board ...see more
My parents, Zack and May Burn had a bakery and grocery shop on Station Street during the 1950's. It was the whitewashed building at the far end of the photograph. In the 1960's they bought "Eignbrook", further along Station Street, which used to be Miss Maxwell's hairdresser's, and prior to that was Holmes' bakery. There my mum ran the grocery shop, which was a "Mace" shop and my father had a mobile grocery ...see more
My mum is in this photo, living at the time on this street. It was taken summer 1958. The photo was for sale in a local shop.
This is the place where in the early 1960s I took my mother to visit and stay with her sister Bertha. During our stay my mother and Bertha (there was another sister called Freda, she moved to Hull with her husband Walt who was a dead ringer for a star of the time Victor Mature - he really was) took me to the graveyard. Out front was the headstone of my great something ...see more
My cousin who lived beside the canal in Gringley Road was Roy Butroid, my favourite cousin, who was the local carpenter and later undertaker.  Sadly he died eight years ago but his widow, a lovely lady named Pauline, still lives there and my husband and I sometimes visit.  Margaret Freebury (from another well known Misterton family) was Walter Freebury's daughter who was my mother's cousin. She ...see more
One of the 'treasures' of Church Corner, Misterton was the Post Office which was run by Dorothy and Gordon. I often visited there as Dorothy was the sister of my boyfriend at that time. Nearby was Walter Scott who was the butcher who went to School with my Mother, Minnie Butroid, one of a very well known and respected Misterton families. Walter made the best sausages and any time my Mother and I visited ...see more