by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2014 | History & Memories
The Old Baker’s Shop in Smallthorne by Doris Machin (nee Tyler) Dad was a miner. He worked on the coal face at Whitfield Colliery. When I was a small child I used to meet him sometimes from work — he’d pick me up and I can still remember the smell of coal-dust,...
by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2014 | History & Memories
Memories of work in Smallthorne by Doris Machin (nee Tyler) Does anyone remember the small printing firm on Smallthorne bank — Robinson’s Printing Works? I started to worked there as a linotype operator in 1947, when I was 15 years of age. I was told at the time...
by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Oct 24, 2013 | History & Memories
The contractors came to wreck And to pillage, Men with hard hats have demolished My village. Men who were swinging great big sledge hammers, Big yellow’ dozers with hydraulic rammers. Pushing and pulling and groaning With strain, Why do they cause so many This...
by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Oct 24, 2013 | History & Memories
Memories of childhood in Bradeley by John Bourne My first memories of childhood are of living with my mother, father and sister, and an old man. The old man was a Mr Bream and, as I learned in later life, my family was lodging with him. The house was, I think, 42...
