Staining, Thornfield Holiday Camp Shop c.1960
Photo ref:
S694002
Photo ref:
S694002
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Thornfield has been a holiday site since the beginning of the 20th century, when accommodation was provided in wooden chalets. During the war it was requisitioned to house travelling people, whose nomadic lifestyle was prevented by wartime restrictions. The photograph shows the present owner's mother (on the right) standing outside the camp shop.
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A Selection of Memories from Staining
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Does anyone remember Miss Edge headmistress of Staining school , Mrs. Bray took the middle classes and Mrs. Dickson was in the infant room. I don't know how old Miss Edge was but to me she seemed VERY old. I had the cane from her twice for small misdemeanours. My friends in school were Robert and Jennifer Jordan, Muriel Newton, Vicky Dickinson, Dorothy Evans Steven Cowell and Neville Smith. My Grandad lived ...see more
Manchester the war.... then to Blackpool. And into Red Rose Cottage in 1950, Grandmare how she held us all together, what a lady Nellie Booth was her name... We started off with eight of us living in the cottage, and we all had to go and get the water from a tap at the shop, hell of a task in winter as you can imagine.. I remember one of my task,s was to beet the bed with a stick to rid the field ...see more
I'm not sure which of the wooden houses I lived in with my dad, Albert Croft and mum Clara Croft. I have a pic with me on my dad's bike and another cleaning the hens out and later getting the eggs, I was only 2 or 3. But I think it was this one as there was a pathway through the edge to the bungalow (Shangri-La, in the left background) that my dad built with his dad and uncles. Later, ...see more
Does anyone remember the Headmaster, Mr Adams, the Headmistress, Miss Hollows, Mrs Dickson and Mrs Ireland putting a tin and milk bottle along I think, with items of the day in the church wall either side of the altar outside? We was told after 25 years, I think, they would take the time capules out and show them to the children and invite the people who, as ...see more
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