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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: magnum bonum, sans pareil, nec plus ultra
« on: Wednesday 15 May 13 18:34 BST (UK) »
Thank You for replying - You mentioned you lived on the Terrace - I guess that was opposite the Bandroom and a little further along from the school.
Did you visit my gran at Hopefield House ? - my dad Ray Stirk and his brother Geoffrey lived there (sadly both passed away now). I spent many hours as a child playing in that area ....the exciting but dangerous quarries on the back fields.....Holmstyes Reservoir .....bilberry picking and blackberries for everyone.....the house had coal fires and I used to chop and saw wood to make kindling....I reckon I could still make a fire from scratch.....
Helms shop....Sunday School.....Bowshaw Whams fishing.....my grandad was a great friend of Jimmy the water bailiff. Hade Edge band and the little telephone kiosk at the junction of the main road (my gran used to get paid to clean that !) - going a bit further back there used to be a chip shop down Greave Road that they owned. Aunt Edit lived in the house opposite the gates to Hopefield House (with a chap called Ernest ?) and the Helms used to live a little way below on the corner house.
Lots to tell - many happy memories.....one story that Hannah always used to tell was that her brother Sykes Briggs committed suicide by weighing himself down and throwing himself into the Holmstyes Reservoir......other names that we told bad stories about were the Boswells (Ephraim and Ezekial - Holmfirths "Mitchell" Brothers of the 1940's.
Flight Hill.....my grandad was an ARP during the war and he used to cycle up there past Magnum to a little tower to watch the german bombers fly over to bombe Stocksbridge and Sheffield.....he said the whole sky lit up when they got a plastering.....and he recovered dead airmen when they flew into Holme Moss due to low flying and low cloud......and the bomb that got dropped at Stand Bank....probably aiming for either Holmstyes or Washpit Mill.....all fond memories....
Did you visit my gran at Hopefield House ? - my dad Ray Stirk and his brother Geoffrey lived there (sadly both passed away now). I spent many hours as a child playing in that area ....the exciting but dangerous quarries on the back fields.....Holmstyes Reservoir .....bilberry picking and blackberries for everyone.....the house had coal fires and I used to chop and saw wood to make kindling....I reckon I could still make a fire from scratch.....
Helms shop....Sunday School.....Bowshaw Whams fishing.....my grandad was a great friend of Jimmy the water bailiff. Hade Edge band and the little telephone kiosk at the junction of the main road (my gran used to get paid to clean that !) - going a bit further back there used to be a chip shop down Greave Road that they owned. Aunt Edit lived in the house opposite the gates to Hopefield House (with a chap called Ernest ?) and the Helms used to live a little way below on the corner house.
Lots to tell - many happy memories.....one story that Hannah always used to tell was that her brother Sykes Briggs committed suicide by weighing himself down and throwing himself into the Holmstyes Reservoir......other names that we told bad stories about were the Boswells (Ephraim and Ezekial - Holmfirths "Mitchell" Brothers of the 1940's.
Flight Hill.....my grandad was an ARP during the war and he used to cycle up there past Magnum to a little tower to watch the german bombers fly over to bombe Stocksbridge and Sheffield.....he said the whole sky lit up when they got a plastering.....and he recovered dead airmen when they flew into Holme Moss due to low flying and low cloud......and the bomb that got dropped at Stand Bank....probably aiming for either Holmstyes or Washpit Mill.....all fond memories....