This coach trip was attempted as amateurs to Continental travelling. No of us wanted to drive ourselves as this means that the one driving misses all the scenery, especially in the Alps, where all the breath-taking views are on the … Read More
I was only four years old when the Second World War ended, so for me it is difficult to separate what are my real memories from what is information that I have picked up listening to my family recalling those … Read More
The origins of Booth & Fisher can be traced back to 1919, when Joseph Booth, who worked at West Kiveton Colliery offices, purchased a second-hand Langham lorry with which to operate a miners’ home coal delivery service. As the business … Read More
Owlthorpe Lane This was originally a cinder track located between Staton’s farm and Quarry Hill. On entering the lane there was a duck pond on the left-hand side next to the field owned by Mary Buxton which was parallel … Read More
WILLIAM DRABBLE & SONS LTD Story written by Gillian Sedgwick (nee Drabble) and John Sedgwick. The originator was John Drabble from Harthill who was apprenticed to his uncle a Mr Grant, a stone mason, living in the Pingle. … Read More
“INSIDE OF ME” There is a left side, a right side, A front and a back, A top, a bottom and an outside too, But where o’ where is the inside of me. Deep it lies ‘neath all … Read More
“MY GRAN” She was my favourite relative; she was quite small and her shoulder were very rounded. She had a very find face surrounded by soft white hair. Her hands were small with fingers all crooked with arthritis, Gran … Read More
I used to really enjoy cleaning the “Yorkshire Range” which used to catch everyone’s in my kitchen. Rising about seven in the morning, I would clean out all the dead ashes and lay paper, sticks and coal in the grate … Read More
Standing here at the bus-stop, I see opposite me a very new building named “Mosshouse”. To the left of it are renovated stone buildings which look very smart and attractive. I can remember we lived in a small cottage which … Read More
MY IMAGINARY DAUGHTER I have more or less been dominated by male company from birth. My uncles bossed me around when I was young, then my three brothers bossed me as I grew up. In those days (the twenties) … Read More