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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| PICKUP, EDITH |
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| ROBERTS, PAMELA |
Reminiscences February 2004
Pamela Roberts, aged 65.
I am the daughter of Louie Johnson who lived at Station House. In my early childhood I lived in the cottage next door to Mr. and Mrs. Cook, which was later occupied by the Maloney family. Our address was Westerhill Cottage, a happy home for my parents and my three sisters. This was a pretty cottage with ivy growing up the side, and a... |
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| SLATER, JACK |
Reminiscences March 2000
Jack Slater, aged
Headquarters – united Methodist School, Alt
1933
President – Joe Hadfield
Vice President – Herbert Wood
Secretary – Wm Marland (of Park Villas, Park Bridge, foreman in roller shop)
Assistant Secretary – Wm Slater
Treasurer – Percy Marsh
Alt Chapel and Sunday School had one big room with moveable... |
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| SMITH, EDNA |
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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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| JOHNSON, DAVID |
Reminiscences January 1998
David Johnson aged 57.
I was born in 1940 in Werneth. My Dad was born at Tan Pit Fields in the end house nearest to Westerhill. He was called Wilfred Johnson and my Mother was called Mary. My grandma, Sarah Jane and my grandad, Thomas Johnson, my Dad's mother and father lived at Station House in the early 1940's. My Granddad worked on the railway. I've... |
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