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My grandmother Maria Knight nee Ward born 1888 was brougt up in the Hillgate area of Ashton where her father owned three shops. The eldest of tweve children she rarely went to school her father would rather pay the ...Read more

A memory of Ashton in 1910 by Anne Critchley

My next door neighbour Jean was put into Quarriers along with her older sister and brother by her father who was off to serve King and Country as her mother had died in childbirth and as they had ...Read more

A memory of Quarriers Village in 1910 by Lynda Armstrong

My great grandfather was Alfred Monk and he married Edith Elizabeth Thompson. They lived at 25 Gosport Road and I have the 1911 census copy that he filled out..

A memory of Walthamstow in 1910 by Zoe Cowell

August 2012. Its a small place Newcastle how about this for a coincidence. I was out on a walk between Wylam and Newburn and as I passed the Tidal Stone (which I mention in my stories) I met this man walking his dog, we chatted and I ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1910 by Jimmy Burrows

I have a photograph (taken by Fred Spalding) of all the (mainly female) workers who did the night shift at Hoffmann's Turret taken in January 1919. One of the workers is my grandmother aged 23. Can anyone supply ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford in 1910 by Susan Coleman

Sutton in Ashfield History I am writing a book that follows the First World War experiences of my Great Grandfather, Albert Edward Wingrove. He used to have a Off Licence premises at 58 Outram Street in ...Read more

A memory of Sutton In Ashfield in 1910 by Andrew Winrgove

My Grandmother, born Jesse Fisher in Corringham around the 1900s married Arthur Percy Clarke of Gainsborough and gave birth to my father Phillip Arthur Clarke in 1920. They lived in Church Road/Path? and ...Read more

A memory of Gainsborough in 1910 by Jane Fraser