Parkwood springs

[francypants 441]

Bernard22.

I lived at the Douglas Inn with my aunty and uncle ( Joan and Clarrie Whittaker ) until it closed in 1974. Just wondered if you knew them ?

[Bernard22 10]

hi me again. at the back of the vicarage house I remember part of an old building with what looked like a stage. was this part of an earlier church before the single story building . it was in the space between vale rd and Douglas rd.bernard22.

[samssong 10]

I don't know why they never did redevelop that area I remember that area right at the very end when there were just a few houses left.

The park was the last thing to go.

I think it would make a lovely spot to live but with the right people in them

The right people were the very people who lived there before;)

[Person6 10]

I think this might have been mentioned before, but in the early sixties I recollect a house on Parkwood Springs where the occupant kept trying to repaint the exterior very bright colours, and I was told, the landlord kept coming and repainting it in dull colours. Anyone remember that?

[Bernard22 10]

hi fancypants sorry I didn't know your auntie and uncle. at that time we had move out.you will properly get information from retep he and his wife are a font of knowledge about the springs.cheers bernard22

[Cycleracer 10]

The right people were the very people who lived there before;)

 

Couldn't agree more

[retep 68]

hi fancypants sorry I didn't know your auntie and uncle. at that time we had move out.you will properly get information from retep he and his wife are a font of knowledge about the springs.cheers bernard22

 

I only went in the Douglas on rare occasions, and only a couple of times when Clarrie had it, my mate Whitey was more of a regular in there.

[caleb wells 10]

When i worked at Thomas Turton in the 60s, I used to have to attend to wooden casting patterns which were kept in a former pub in Parkwood Springs. The pub had been called 'The Reindeer', does anyone remember this?

[retep 68]

When i worked at Thomas Turton in the 60s, I used to have to attend to wooden casting patterns which were kept in a former pub in Parkwood Springs. The pub had been called 'The Reindeer', does anyone remember this?

 

Next door to the Parkwood Hotel, had G.W.Waugh mineral waters in the backyard.

[Jean Smedley 0]

On 16/09/2005 at 20:16, tazz said:

my nan & grandad lived on pickering rd there names were may & lol taylor the kids were nancie joan barbra and frank

i am sure my nan ran the paper shop also remember the great bonfire nights thay had frank is my dad took him up about 6 weeks ago wow the good times came rolling back for him

Do you remember any one one on Mount road. I remember Shadrach white and his family 

 

I used to school with Vikki

 

 

 

[Jean Smedley 0]

On 03/10/2004 at 17:24, chocoholic said:

Hiya

I can still remember that my walk to school seemed to take a lifetime.I used to go down that cobbled gennel(which was a nightmare in winter).Then we had these massive wide stone steps to go down which curved round at the bottom.Accross a wooden railway bridge which used to shudder when a train passed under,down a load of wooden steps,then some stone steps & finally up & down a couple of roads & into Hillfoot School.It had a massive playgrond with a climbing frame in the top left hand corner!I can still smell the dinners cooking now!

Happy Days!!

What is your name l went to Hill foot

 

[Jean Smedley 0]

I used to Hill foot I remember remember Victoria white and her family and she now's me