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malbeckly

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  1. My father had a butchers shop at ManorTop opposite the Elm Tree and his mother lived on the premises. My grandmother was great friends with the Olivers, they used to visit her holiday bungalow at Humberston, and at the time they had a shop on Handsworth at he top next to the cinema. She took me to stay with Mrs Oliver, I think she was widowed but her family visited that day. We stayed over a couple of nights I think and I remeber clearly the old organ in the large kitchen and the grand piano. There was a 'hidden' back straircase too and a bed so huge I couldn't climb into it. I remembered the garden as having a stream running through but having read more I now believe it to be a channel to keep the livestock in, or out. My gran was Florrie (Florence) Wells and my father was Charlie.
  2. Only just seen this post... I was brought up at Frecheville and our next-door neighbour was Charles Singleton owner of the pearl button factory at Hackenthorpe. I think they moved away when he retired around the mid-1950's. It could easily have been one of his family who worked there at the 1911 census time. We had jars full of pearl buttons which were sometimes rejects, given to us by Mr Singleton. All our home-made clothes had pearl buttons and mum had several brooches and other small items made from mother-of-pearl. I still have a couple of brooches.
  3. My grannie had a TV in time for the Coronation so I was lucky enough to be able to watch Andy Pandy and Whirligig on her set. We got ours in late 1956 when ITV was born. We had a Pye (I think) with a sloping front and we had replica money boxes to encourage us to save from our measy 2/- a week. We were the first in our street to have an ITV aerial and very proud of it too! When I married in 1965 we bought a secondhand tabletop set which was very big and very square, and black and white, and my husband put legs on it to make it 'modern'.
  4. I went to Eckington Grammar (renamed Westfield Comprehensive in 1957). I lived at Frecheville and we had to get a bus each day. We usually had Sharps coaches and there were 2 regular drivers, Reg and an older guy whose name escapes me. Whatever the weather, they always turned up and got us to school despite snowdrifts of several feet high on the road to Mosborough. I was there from 1956 to 1961.
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