Nostalgic memories of Pontefract'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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Displaying Memories 1 - 10 of 12 in total
Born in December 1957 my maiden name was Kemp I must have started in Mrs Padgets class St Joseph's circa 1962. i remember the alphabet in pictures around the wall A is for apple B is for ball, C is for cat & D is for dog etc…I can still work my way through the images for every letter. There was also a Wendy house corner that I loved playing in. We lived on Crag Mount Halfpenny Lane and ...see more
I claimed the walls in this picture in 1955 I was 10 years old two of us did it myself and best friend Goef Eastwood now deceased, sorry to say, we claimed it so far and we was so scared , we could not turn back so we had to go on and finish the climb, I still shake when I think what we did, great days, we went on to climb many more dangerous buildings.including the old Methodist church that was in Horse Fair,
I was a Brownie as a young girl and a very accomplished one too. I had an armful of Badges which had been ever so carefully sewn all the way down the sleeve of my uniform by my Mother.
As a Brownie i took part in the Remembrance day service each year. All the Youth organisations took place along with the Colliery bands and of course those who had fought in the wars and survived and current members of The ...see more
I was born in Pontefract. Christened and Married, as were my parents, in All Saints Church in Pontefract by the Reverand Fawkes, now diseased.
I went to Chequerfield infants then Willow park junior school and Pontefract and district Girls High school( the brown knicker school) I would catch a bus into town, strangely enough from the very bus stop I live directly next to now,and then walk up to England's. ...see more
I have lived in Pontefract for most of my life. I was born in 1958. At the age of 3 to 4 years of age I lived with my parents and two younger sisters in a very large detached house on Southgate. It was directly opposite what is now the Dentists, near Stringers garage. Our house was next to what was I believe was a sweet factory. That building has now been renovated and sells carpets. I started at the infants school at ...see more
I remember going on the bus from Normanton with my Mum and Dad to Pontefract park ... and rowing around the lake ...Come in number 7 ... sometimes Dad and I would walk over the fields ..up Loscoe lane to Featherstone and on to Pontefract racecourse where we would sit on the hill and watch the races ..... later I went to the Saturday night dance at Jack Wordsworths ...... I was friends with Judy Rawlings and ...see more
i was born in pontefract , paradise gardens, when i married at button park i moved away to leicester, when i came to visit my mum , i would take my children to the valley gardens to picnic and paddle in the pool there .
Pontefract a place I call home, my early years were spent Carleton Home's, it would be 58 years before
I saw my real Mum Minne Martin from Castleford. from off the West wood Est. in Cutsyke.
I was adopted by the Scorgie Family in 1949, & from the age of six I grew up in Cromwell Crescent up Baghill, at around 7-30 from my Bed-Room Window every morning I would see the Girls going ...see more
My Aunt Freda used to run the show boat and when we went to Ponty to visit my dad, Spank Mattocks, I spent a lot of time in there. We live down south, a lot of my family lived up Chequerfield Drive and some still do. My cousin Beverley is now landlady of the pub, her mom, Joan was the first barmaid there when it opened. My Uncle Steve was a dustman and had an allotment up Chequerfield. My dad was one of 12 so ...see more
My mum and my nanna use to take my brother and me here alot in the mid 60s. We were very young. I was born in 1962 and my brother 1965. Happy days!