Places
15 places found.
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- Pit, Gwent
- Talke Pits, Staffordshire
- Tunnel Pits, Humberside
- Bedwellty Pits, Gwent
- Fenton Pits, Cornwall
- Slay Pits, Yorkshire
- Tre-pit, South Glamorgan
- Bailey Pit, Gwent
- Gore Pit, Essex
- Moss Pit, Staffordshire
- Red Pits, Norfolk
- White Pit, Lincolnshire
- Even Pits, Hereford & Worcester
- Forest Coal Pit, Gwent
- Michaelston-le-Pit, South Glamorgan
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Memories
866 memories found. Showing results 311 to 320.
Hummed To Sleep By A Factory
We used to live on what was called The Avenues on the Rylands estate. This was situated behind the Princess shopping parade, so called after the name of the local flea pit where all the kids went to Saturday morning ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham in 1961 by
Bicycle Storage
I was born and lived at Longdon Green. I started work at West Cannock Colliery No.5 in 1951. I used to cycle to Rugeley every morning and store my bicycle in Jack Hill's shop doorway along with other miners' bikes, then catch the ...Read more
A memory of Rugeley in 1951 by
When We Came Here
When our family, consisting of myself, Jean Pauline Smith, my mother who has since passed away (also called Jean, but her middle name is Audrey), and my sister and brother came to Bulwell, we came from the famous or infamous ...Read more
A memory of Bulwell in 1978 by
Family And Friends 1942 To 1961
I was born Cramlington 1942, my sister 1940. l have some happy memories of Blyth, lived with mam and dad and sister Betty in Cowpen Row. Dad was in the army so did not see much of him then, when he came ...Read more
A memory of Blyth in 1964 by
Aston Terrace
I remember sliding down Outcrop and sitting on wooden steps leading to Brookhouse pit. On pay day miners used to give us some coppers and we would share them out. I used to go and see Guddy Pearson, a homeless man who lived in one of ...Read more
A memory of Aston in 1955 by
Summers In Blackhall
My Grandma - Bertha Lanaghan - lived in Third Street for over 50 years. She made hookey rugs as big as a room from old blankets, coats, etc whatever she could get, to sell for extra money. She dyed the wool three ...Read more
A memory of Blackhall Colliery by
Rowlands Castle Brickworks
Rowlands Castle Brickworks originally established during the 1880’s, and must have been the biggest employer at the time, next to agriculture. Not all the workforce came form Rowlands Castle, but from local ...Read more
A memory of Rowlands Castle in 1963 by
Memories Of My Time At Newton On Ouse
I was born at Newton On Ouse in March 1928. At the age of five I attended the local school whose headmaster was Alf Bradbury. Also at the age of five I began visiting Village Farm that was owned by ...Read more
A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1930 by
Memories Of Stanford Le Hope
I too have many memories of Stanford-le-Hope. I was born in Orsett hospital. My mother came from South Wales whilst my father came from Ashford in Middlesex. The reason they came to live here was my aunt ...Read more
A memory of Stanford-le-Hope
Visited As A Young Girl
My father Douglas was born here to Malcolm H McCullough and Jennie Woodifield Etherington McCullough. He worked in the mine and remembers riding the pit ponies. They were racing and he fell off one and scarred his ...Read more
A memory of Shotton Colliery in 1959 by
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