Recent content by Secratery Bird

My great uncle married a Drakeley ( Sorry can’t remember her name), they lived on this site in a house, I visited many times with my grandmother must have been 50’s. His name was Albert Rose, we had coal delivered by his sons for many years.

Does anyone remember Minty’s cafe or Elsie’s little shop. I lived further down the street at 3/63, almost opposite the Wellhead Pub.

I can remember a CoffinYard at the end, before the park.. We used to push a old pram with sacks to collect the wood off cuts , they were piled high in the yard of the works. We filled sacks and put them in the pram, when we got home (Franchise Street) it was stacked neatly into the woodshed to...

Hi, my name when I worked at Newman’s was Wendy Dunn. I worked as Bill Hartland (Works Manager) secretary, starting August 1963. My desk was in the drawing office on the top floor. I remember many of the names mentioned. I used to visit the workshops collecting stock figures etc. Mr Hartland...