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if you are the Colin Cooper from Darnell then I must be your brother Alan,have you seen anything of our brother Micheal ?.

that would be Ted Firths shop , the chippy would be sargeants, the friers were coal fired . ---------- Post added 31-10-2013 at 18:54 ---------- yes Robbiet I would agree with you on that one . I lived on Harding Street very close to the aquaduct club , which is Darnall .

no .. Like a fart in a colander , doesn't know which hole to get out of.. [ undicided person ] cant make their mind up. ---------- Post added 31-10-2013 at 18:42 ---------- my grandmother used to say that a lot ..

a lot of my relations worked there around that time, Coopers , Bagshaws.

my grandad worked at brown baileys . he was a plate layer.Harry Cooper was his name . he worked for a lot of years probably all his life till retirement round about 1965. I used to meet him from work at the big doors past the aquaduct next to the white hart pub ,that was run for a long time by my great uncle Wille Bagshaw whos sister nellie was my grandmother married to Harry , they lived in Harding street. my father was Harry Cooper jr .

Joe Taylors ,Greenland Road .

hi Terry457 . I remember the duke very well , my grandmother called him the tailors dummy due to the burton thing. ---------- Post added 08-02-2013 at 20:35 ---------- he lived just below my grandmothers shop ,fosters grocers , I think in the same row as a lad I remember from school Roy Woods .

not plumb .... a bit cockeyed .

im good thanks ,living in north yorkshire ,farming. how are you ? ---------- Post added 19-12-2012 at 20:00 ---------- yes played down quarry often ,then walked through to the canal .

the only PF that comes to mind is Peter Foster ....

hi , yes i knew David & Roy Allen , they had an elder brother i think was Thomas . our back yard backed on to the spare ground at the brick kilns .my name is Alan Cooper .my brothers are Colin & Micheal .my grandmother used to own the grocery shop at the top of darnall rd /main rd , Ellsie foster was her name , next door to Grays the butchers. used to spend many a happy hour playing in the kilns .

hi , i used to help Roy the milkman on a saturday morning , the horse was called Dollie.

hi robbiet, i used to live next to the brick kilns you mentioned ,on Harding street. my grandparents lived next door to us, they drank in the Albert pub .Harry & Nellie Cooper, with ner brother Percy bagshaw.

i used to help deliver milk when i was young with a shire horse and dray. cant remember name of milk man but the horse was called dolly.

Teddys shop was ran by ted firth and his wife , i lived nearly opposite on greenland rd .