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| CLARKE, MARGARET |
Reminiscences February 200
Margaret Clarke aged 73
I was born in Ashton Lakeside Hospital in 1930. My father was William Day, known as Billy and my mother Sarah was known as Sally. I had no brothers or sisters. I started life at Denton in the Kings Head Hotel at Crown Point; my grandparents were licensees there. I came to Ashton when I was six years old because my father’s parents... |
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| DOBB, WILLOUGHBY |
Reminiscences 1998
Mr. W. Dobb, aged 79.
I was born 23rd January 1919 and live at Bardsley. These are my reminiscences of schoolboy experiences associated with Park Bridge around the period 1926-30.
The removal from the site at Fairbottom Bobs of the Newcomen pumping engine.
Obtaining a helping hand from Mr. Maurice Lees, in carrying a bundle of wood... |
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| LOMAS, BOB |
Reminiscences October 2003
Vera Moody, aged 85.
Bob Lomas, aged 77
Vera – ‘I was born in Union Road in Ashton in December 1917. I had one brother, Bob, who was nearly nine years younger than me. My father, John William Lomas, known as Jack, was an engineer at Park Bridge ironworks. All the time he was at Park Bridge he worked on ‘textiles’. They made fluted rollers... |
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| POTTER, JEAN |
Reminiscences November 2001
Jean Potter, aged 70.
I came to Park Bridge a week after a large blitz in Coventry 8/9th April 1941. I was ten and a half years old and my brother next to me had been killed in the blitz. My elder sister Doris had arranged to marry Peter Wellesley Morris from Park Bridge in May of 1941 in Coventry, but following the devastation this was impossible. So she decided... |
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| HURST, LILLIAN |
Lillian Hurst nee Turner.
HAPPY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF PARKBRIDGE DAYS.
One Sunday afternoon when I was about eleven, my Mum, Dad & I set off for our usual Sunday afternoon walk- but this time we went a completely new way, because we were going to visit some friends my dad had met at work. He was a Goods Guard stationed at Glodwick Rd. Oldham and his “turns of duty”... |
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| MOODY, VERA |
Reminiscences October 2003
Vera Moody, aged 85.
Bob Lomas, aged 77
Vera – ‘I was born in Union Road in Ashton in December 1917. I had one brother, Bob, who was nearly nine years younger than me. My father, John William Lomas, known as Jack, was an engineer at Park Bridge Ironworks. All the time he was at Park Bridge he worked on ‘textiles’. They made fluted rollers... |
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| JANKIEWICZ, DOROTHY |
Reminiscences
Dorothy Jankiewicz ( nee Shaw )
Dorothy lived for many years in the cottages at Fairbottom Bobs. She lived there with her Mother, Father, three sisters and two brothers. Dorothy’s father, Thomas Shaw originally came from St. Helens and moved to this area around 1908. He was born on June 21st. 1884. Dorothy’s Mother was a local girl, born in Bardsley about 1888.... |
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| DEFLEY, MAVIS |
Mavis Defley Reminiscences
Ours was a small industrial village with the Ironworks at its centre. There were four rows of workers cottages, about 40 in all, and six larger bay windowed houses for the managers, a school, church and two chapels, five small farms and a very grand manor house with stable house and coach house where the Ironmaster lived. We had a village policeman who kept the children... |
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