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Reminiscences |
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| BRINDLEY, MARGARET |
Reminiscences May 2001
Margaret Brindley, aged 64.
My father Arnold Penny was born in Waterloo. When he married he lived in Ashton and then moved to 7, Dingle Terrace for a time. Then he moved onto Oldham Road near The Dog and Partridge where I was born in 1937. I was an only one. My mother, Edna died when I was four. She was a tailoress and used to make outfits for the shows that they... |
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| BROWN, CHRIS |
Reminiscences May 2001
Chris Brown, aged 78.
The garage used to be up a road to the left of the Bottom Forge, the Lancashire boilers used to be up there. As you went up to the Lancashire boilers the garage was on the right hand side before you got to ’turbine, there were a garage and then there were turbines. They made there own electric, so the steam boilers worked the turbines to... |
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| BROWNE, TERENCE |
Reminiscences September 1999
Terence Browne, aged 78.
When I was young, I lived in Portland Street, Ashton under Lyne. I had five brothers and a sister that I don’t remember, she died very young, in infancy, and a sister that died two years ago, who was two years older than me. My father was Edward Browne and my Mother’s name was Marie Anne Bostock before she was married. Dad... |
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| CHARD, MAY |
Reminiscences August 1997
May Chard, aged 77
I lived at Tan Pit Field cottages, the third one from Westerhill, and we moved to Station House in 1930. My father, Thomas Johnson was a foreman porter on the railway. I remember the chain horses pulling wagons full of long bars of iron along the wagon road. They had chains on so that, when it was icy under foot, if stopped they could start... |
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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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| 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... |
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| COOPER, TOM |
Reminiscences April 2000
Tom Cooper, aged 73
Kenneth Cooper, aged 70
Our father, Thomas Cooper, was born in Ten Houses in 1899. He died in 1988 aged eighty-eight. He began work at Park Bridge when he was thirteen. He was a wheelwright in the Joiners Shop making wheels for carts. I (Tom) remember going down with his dinner with my mother and him standing me in a cart. Tom Gibson was foreman... |
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| COOPER, KENNETH |
Reminiscences April 2000
Tom Cooper, aged 73
Kenneth Cooper, aged 70
Our father, Thomas Cooper, was born in Ten Houses in 1899. He died in 1988 aged eighty-eight. He began work at Park Bridge when he was thirteen. He was a wheelwright in the Joiners Shop making wheels for carts. I (Tom) remember going down with his dinner with my mother and him standing me in a cart. Tom Gibson was foreman... |
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| 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.... |
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| HIBBERT, SAM |
Reminiscences January 1998
Sam Hibbert, aged 80. (Died Sept. 1999)
I was born in Bailey Street in Stalybridge in 1918 when my father was away at the war. Later we lived at 15, Smallshaw Lane, Ashton under Lyne in a small stone cottage, one of four, which I believe now have a preservation order on them. I come from a large family. My father, Edward Hibbert, better known as Ned and Mother,... |
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| HIRST, HAROLD |
Reminiscences March 1996
Harold Hirst, aged 92.
I started in the Iron Works on my thirteenth birthday on the Spion Kop, that was the scrap yard. It was called the Spion Kop after the Boer War. All the lads started there and moved to the Bottom Forge when they were older and there was a vacancy. In the scrap yard we cropped scrap up into small pieces with a cropper. It was on a rocker system... |
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| HOPWOOD, BRIAN |
Reminiscences July 2001
Brian Hopwood, aged 57.
We moved to Park Bridge in 1957 off Ashton Moss. My parents were Harry and Hilda Hopwood. My sister Elaine lives at Dukinfield and Brother Philip lives at Hyde. Philip was just born when we moved into Mill Brow House. Dad was born in 1919. He worked there (Park Bridge ironworks) since he was fourteen. He started off sorting scrap up on Spion... |
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| KAYE, BERNARD |
Reminiscences January 1998
Bernard Kaye, aged 63.
I left Ashton Grammar school and worked at the National Gas and Oil Engine Co. in Ashton for three weeks. I was a choirboy at Christ Church in Ashton and Billy Clegg, who was Company Secretary at Park Bridge Ironworks was the choirmaster. He got me a job in the offices at Park Bridge as a junior clerk. I worked there from 1950 'till... |
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| KIDGER, JACK |
Reminiscences February 2002
Jack Kidger, aged 78
When I first started work I signed up with Boots as an unindentured apprentice. The job was counter work and some dispensing under supervision. Then I went in the forces. When I came back all the jobs had been taken over by the girls, there was no dispensing to be done so the interest wasn’t there. So I had a sudden change of plan and... |
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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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| MAHER, MICHAEL |
Reminiscences 1998
Michael Maher, aged 59
I live on Huddersfield Road, Stalybridge. I have worked for the council from 1973 in Mossley. I was a gully attendant on the ‘Gully Wagon’ for grids, septic tanks and sewer excavations. In 1974 Tameside came into being. In about 1974 all the depots amalgamated in Ashton.
We had to take turns to do the ‘night pails’ at... |
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| MALONEY, BILLY |
Reminiscences September 1995
Bill Maloney, aged 71.
I was born in Stalybridge. As a boy I lived in a cottage next to Pickford Hall at Fairbottom. We then moved to a cottage next to Fairbottom Sunday School. My father was out of work, so mother took in lodgers to make ends meet. They were men from Park Bridge Iron Works.
I went to St. James' School, Park Bridge. The headmaster then... |
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| MARLAND, PAUL |
Reminiscences April 1997
Paul J. Marland (Jack Marland's son)
My Great Grandfather, Silas Marland, lived in Dingle Terrace. He had a dog called Gull. One day a man from Dingle Terrace took Gull for a walk and was murdered. Silas Marland used to say to the dog, "If tha' could only talk, thou'd tell us who did it".
Jack Marland, the juggler (cousin of Jack Marland,... |
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| WARREN, ALBERT |
Reminiscences July 2002
Albert Warren. Aged 88
I was brought up in Duncan Street, Ashton under Lyne, one of twelve brothers. My only sister died when she was only a few months old.
Two of my brothers Daniel Morrison and George Harry Warren worked in the Bright Shop at Park Bridge ironworks. Danny married Hilda Newcombe and they lived on Dingle Terrace with their daughter. Danny worked... |
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| YATES, NORMAN |
Reminiscences April 1997
Norman Yates, aged 83. (Emigrated to Canada)
It is quite apparent that dates of happenings seventy odd years ago are somewhat elusive, but it seems fairly certain that 1920 was the year that Bessie and I, along with Jimmy Whitehead, Marion Kidger and others graduated from the infants to standard one in the 'big room'. Just at what point we left Alt - before... |
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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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| HOLT, MAUD |
Reminisences
Maud Holt nee Slater wrote a list of the villagers she knew.
(When the vicar was Rev. Wolf, 1902-23 and the curate was Mr. Timothy, 1912-20)
Tenants of Dingle Terrace;
No.1, Mr. & Mrs. Williamson, he was manager of the Top Forge. Children-Arthur, Alice, Charlotte, Harry & Emiline.
No.3, Percy & Laura Marshes. Children-Dora (died), Lizzie, Janet, Clara,... |
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