Reminiscences November 1995
Dorothy Andrew, aged 68.
I was born at Fairbottom Farm, Ashton under Lyne, on 4th February 1927. All the children around Fairbottom attended Park Bridge School. There were no school dinners in those days, so every day we had to walk up and down the 'School Brow' ( Mill Brow) to go home to Fairbottom for our dinner. Our headmaster was John Warren Naylor...
CLAYTON, PETER
Reminiscences October 1997
Peter Clayton, aged 54
I went to Park Bridge School for a short time before I moved to Alexander Park School. The headmaster was Warren - Naylor. He had a club foot and wore a hearing aid. He was in charge of the choir at St. James' Church. I think I only got into the choir in 1950 because Warren - Naylor was deaf. When the electricity was off I sometimes...
FOSTER, BERNARD
Reminiscences May 1996
Bernard Foster, aged 68.
I was born in 1928, at 23, Dingle Terrace, one of six children. The house was quite small with two rooms downstairs, the house and a kitchen. Mother cooked the meals on a black leaded stove that had an open fire and a side oven. She did the washing in a set pot, made of bricks with a metal liner, under which a fire was lit to heat the water....
HOWISON, LESLEY
Reminiscences December 2001
Lesley Howison
I am the daughter of Bessie Yates, the twin of Norman Yates, who now lives in Canada. When I was young I lived at Ten Houses. My Grandma and Granddad,
Florence and Frank Yates lived at 10 Dean Terrace next to the Co-op.
Louisa and Anne Cooper were Sunday School teachers at St. James, Park Bridge. Louisa Cooper was also a school teacher at...
