by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Jul 25, 2016 | History & Memories
“I lived in Smallthorne from 1957 to 1969, at the bottom of Nettlebank, behind the Victoria Working Men’s Club, at 17 Holden Avenue North. My best childhood friend lived immediately adjacent to the club at 296 Hanley Road.” Below: The Victory Club...
by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Aug 12, 2013 | History & Memories
I lived in Nettlebank for the first 16 years of my life. My mother’s family was firmly rooted in this respectable little working-class enclave and according to census information my grandparents moved to Cliff Street somewhere between 1901 and 1911. The men in the...
by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Aug 11, 2013 | History & Memories
When I was a child in the 1940s and 50’s I lived in Nettlebank, Smallthorne. But I was a ‘NETTLEBONKER’ which is distinct from being a ‘SMOTHENER’. Nettlebank, as it was then, enjoyed an almost ‘Passport to Pimlico’ existence. We were cut off from Smallthorne on the...
