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I lived in Brandon Road in the house next door to the Majestic Cinema from about 1940 to 1946. The house in those days was called Dent Dale which was written on the glass panel above the door. I used to go to the school ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by James Wigmore

My first memories were living at 56, 4th Avenue aged approx six years. We were very poor and my mother had many days when she fed us but didn't eat herself, even though my father worked seven days a week at Thoresby Pit. I ...Read more

A memory of Edwinstowe in 1950 by Clive Bingham

My memory of Shilton is when I started school at the infant school in The Hollow which is now a supermarket, and then to the school in Wood Street, after that to Heathfield at Bel Vue and we used to play in Dan Asley's sand pit ...Read more

A memory of Earl Shilton by Eric Johnson

My father Alan Clowes died down Askern pit on 20/5/1980. I've looked on lots of websites concerning Askern colliery but I can find no reference to him. I was 13 years old at the time and would like to know more about it. I don't live in ...Read more

A memory of Askern in 1980 by David Clowes

Hi, my name is Margaret Thomas and before I was married I was Irving. I was brought up by my grandparents, Norman and Rosie Turnbull. They lived at number 2 Office Houses, which were pit houses. One of my ...Read more

A memory of Seaton Burn in 1970 by Margaret Thomas (Nee) Irving

I was born in Eastbourne Road, in a house opposite the sand pits and the common. My name was Wendy Mitchell. With my sisters and brother I would spend hours picking bluebells and primroses and climbing trees ...Read more

A memory of Godstone by Wendy Soall

I must have around 7 years old when my mother used to take me along Bramley Town Street, where in those times it was back to back houses and shops. I was taken regularly to the ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1958 by Sam Hamblett

I was born in 1944 in my grandmother's house named 'Bloemfontein' at Higher Fraddon. She named the house after the capital of the Orange Free State of South Africa where she was born. Her father, my great-grandfather Parkyn, ...Read more

A memory of Higher Tolcarne in 1948 by Peter Crago Goodman

I was born on Heol y Baw, which is off Heol y Dre... one of the pictures you have on here is of a cottage on Village Street ..known as Heol y Dre.. I spent many many hours in this cottage, when the Morris`s lived there, they were a ...Read more

A memory of Cefneithin in 1945 by Sylvia Roberts

I was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. My mum was born and grew up in Newcastle and so many of my aunties and uncles and cousins were all Geordies. My Uncle George and Aunty Beatty (Charlton) lived in Crawcrook in Morgy Hill and I ...Read more

A memory of Clara Vale in 1949 by Allan Fawcett