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Does any one remember the Moore family from Poplar Street South Moor. My grand father was born at number 19. As the family left school they took up trades at the Louisa Pit in Stanley. In 1925 his mother Jane Esther Moore ...Read more

A memory of Stanley in 1920 by Cheryl Mellan

I used to go to Montecleffe girls school from 1956 untill 1959. It was an all girls school then with the toilets outside and they were wooden seats! Mr. Davey was the care taker. My teacher in class one and two was Miss. ...Read more

A memory of Somerton in 1958 by Sylvia Black

There was a young lad a year younger than I whose father was a bookie: not many lads liked him because of his spoiled nature. Anyway I was to meet him on the street where he begged and pleaded for me to go with him ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1956 by Roland Mitchell

I was born at the Bearstead Memorial Hospital in 1946 and lived on Hurstfield Road for my first 5 years, then moved to Weston Avenue. That house backed on to Hurst Park racecourse and I used to love to look over the fence to ...Read more

A memory of West Molesey in 1950 by Alison Collin

At the age of ten, my father moved me and the rest of the family from Low Fell to Esh Winning, without consulting any of us, including my mother. He had bought a tumble-down holiday cottage, situated between the pit-heap and the ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by David Woodhead

When they found coal, Treodrhiwfuwch was only a farm. A book was published by J R Pearce back in 1985 about Pontlottyn and Treodrhiwfuwch. Over the years terrace houses were built for miners, some ...Read more

A memory of Troedrhiwfuwch in 1920 by David Harris

My father (Robert Summers born Dec  1916) was 6 months old when his father was killed in Ypers. A few years later my gran remarried a miner, James MacLachlan, an ex Cameronian. My father told me a story of how, during the strike and ...Read more

A memory of Twechar in 1920 by Roy Summers

My Mum, Elizabeth Crawford married Dad and went to live in London.....I was brought to Kirkconnel at a month old and baptised in the Parish Church......every year we came up with Dad's motor bike and sidecar ...Read more

A memory of Kirkconnel in 1950 by Sarah Butt

Not long into married life we both walked into a miners strike that lasted until 1985. This was very hard having to adjust to married life and without no money because of the strike we both lost our first home. Soon ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1984 by Karen Surtees

seems likea "million" years ago, but I was ( 6 yrs ) old and remember at holiday fridays,standing with a few other kids outside the pit-baths at the devon pit, asking miners if we could take their bags "pit clothes" home for them, and get a tip... thrupenny bit, was a lot back then.

A memory of Fishcross in 1948 by Charlie Bradley