Darbys1

don't know about the pub, but there was the coffee shop at the top of the moor that was a bit "ows yer farva".

if it is any help. All I can tell you, is that it was up staniforth Road, then turn left at kettle bridge, about a mile down the road cross over the railway bridge on the right, onto a coal track, and it was somewhere there. I used to spend time there as a child, feeding the blind pitponies. I also used to go to a school a bit further up the road called Hammerton/Hampton road primary school, but unfortunately i can't find it anymore on any map. I guess it has gone withh all the rest.

hobbies was definately there from the fifties to the middle sixties. opposite the peace gardens by the town hall

thanks for reply smary. I tried to submit reply to you PM but system wouldn't let me. Yes I do remember the name Foster, but still trying to put a face to the name. I remember the "new" houses going up between the Browns and Savilles. they also built a couple on the bottom road, at the top of Doe Royd lane. I remember Margaret Quixall, she was a couple of years younger than me. I also went to Granville and completed my City & Guilds in Mechanical Engineering, after which I took off to New Zealand, and then Australia. I have lived here ever since, apart from a few years in Bahrain, Czechaslovakia, Pakistan and P.R.of China. Now I'm too crippled with arthritis to go anywhere. My name, if you havn't guessed already, is Ian Woolley from 79.

Yer thats the one. He used to pull up and shout "BAKER" two or three times before jumping into the back and serving from there. He was a real skinny guy with a few front teeth missing. A real nice guy. I remember the Mansel area but havn't been there for about 50 years. Now that's showing my age!!!

Yep, I remember the Browns. There was George and Vic(i think) and across the road was Trevor Greenwood. I also remember Paddy Saville, and down the road were the Quixalls. I went to Meynell with the Browns, Greenwood, Saville. The top of Doe Royd was a very interesting place in the 50's and 60's. I lived by the island at the top of the gennel. I don't know if you would remember the Jefferies Van that used to deliver groceriesall over the Cross. Well I was the guy that used to work on that van; Friday nights and Saturday mornings. I worked for them from about 1957 until 1959, when I left school and bought a motor bike. Since then I have just burnt rubber. I tell a lie, I sold my last bike about 6 months ago, because of arthritis. Such is life!!!

I lived in Doe Royd Crescent from 1950 to 1965. Do I count??? IanW

Anyone remember a guy called Woolley, lived in Doe royd Cres, from about 1950 to mid1960's. Went to Meynell Rd, used to ride a motorbike, worked at the Admiralty for years and then Batchelors. Became an Engineer and finished up as a Diplomat in Australia. He had a couple of brothers and a sister. His father rode a combination and was a strange person.