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Does any one have memories of the fun fair at Sheldon Country Park in the 1980s they can share? Also which fun fair family ran it and what time of year it regularly landed at the park? Did the fair at the park go back further into the 1970s?
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Hi, does anyone know of an old TB sanitorium that may have been in the Sheldon area during WW2. My mother was in such a place at that time but I cannot remember where it was, she may have been in a hospital in Sheldon - or I may have it totally wrong and her friend was a Nurse Sheldon...
Hi all.
Had some wonderful help on the Clark side so am now looking at the Smith side.
James' father was listed as Reuben Smith who was a farmer. This is a bit of a tricky one really and I suspect I will have to nail down his most likely date of death to try and get the death cert and the...
Hi, I am researching the Lucas and Dunn families. The names of particular interest are as follows:
Florence Dunn
Richard Dunn
Ada Maria Lucas
William Thomas Lucas
Thomas Lucas
Mary Ann Crew
Harriet Lucas (formely crew)
If anyone know of these names or any information, photos, newspapers...
I started school at Blakenhale Road Infants School in Sheldon on its first day. I think this was probably January 1951, which will make it it's sixtieth anniversary soon. Does anyone know of celebrations? Does the school still exist?
My first teacher was Miss Norris, who was probably 19 at...