Brenda Whitaker
Queensland Australia
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 21:27 |
High Street
Hi Denis, thanks for submitting those two sketches, a talented fellow! We walked up there last August and as you say the view hasn't changed much (if you keep focused). Off to the right was a regular visit for us as kids because our aunt Isobel Kettlewell lived up there so your sketch has a few fond memories for me. |
Neil Palfreman
Sutton in Craven
Thursday, May 19, 2016 06:45 |
The building on the right in your sketch of the High Street was a chapel we called The Mission and we used to go there to watch the 'Magic Lantern Shows' I too remember the people you mentioned. You certainly get the old brain cells working. Doreen Palfreman |
Robin Longbottom
Oakworth
Thursday, May 19, 2016 18:30 |
Two of Glynn Whiteoak's historic photographs in the Gallery show the old Mission, they are numbered 7 & 8 in the High Street section. The building is on the extreme right of the photos, just above Craven House. Photo no.7 is the earliest of the two, no.8 shows a later constructed 'privvy'. I believe the building was demolished in the mid 1950's, but the old 'privvy' remained standing till the end of the 60's. We used to play in the ruins of it, eventually it was made into a garden for the house in Lister Hill.
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Susan Knox nee Currie
Sutton
Friday, May 20, 2016 15:16 |
They are very good sketches Denis. I remember attending the Mission along with my sister Anne (Currie) about 1946-8. My only memory of the interior is a flight of stairs leading directly from the entrance. I have often wondered which doctrine would have been taught there. |
David Laycock
Melbourne Australia
Saturday, May 28, 2016 13:37 |
Hello Denis and Brenda,
Just shown the sketches to my brother Allan and his reply was, not bad for a young'n! We are up at Cowling Hill Farm till tomorrow. |
Denis Marshall Pickles
Norfolk
Saturday, May 28, 2016 14:24 |
High praise indeed from an old master! I'm sure hat he will have a few local scenes which he could add to the Gallery. |
Denis Marshall Pickles
Norfolk
Monday, June 6, 2016 20:11 |
Susan,
Thanks for the comments re High Street and the Mission. The name Currie has kindled some memories so far back they are almost lost. Georgina Currie! Does the name ring any bells? I have a feeling that it is someone who was at the Council School with me a long time ago. Anyone you know? |
Brenda Whitaker
Queensland Australia
Monday, June 6, 2016 21:01 |
And... Dennis, I worked alongside Georgina at Bairstows and was a guest at her wedding at St Thomas's church - another blast from the past.
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Denis Marshall Pickles
Norfolk
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 15:46 |
Brenda,
You seem to possess such a wealth of knowledge about the time when we were youngsters living in Sutton! So there was a Georgina Currie - my memory hadn't failed me completely. I just cannot put a face to her. There are several more names that I recall which are just that - names only, nothing more. Patsy Howard is one, Molly Fieldhouse is another! I have no idea what they did, where they got to etc.. Wouldn't it be great if we could log in to a list of kids you were at school with and read how life has treated them? A job for Andrew Monkhouse perhaps? |
Brenda Whitaker
Queensland Australia
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 23:55 |
Denis
It would be an interesting memory provoking exercise, unfortunately, as I have lived outside the country since 1961 there has been little use for my cranial library and few prompts to use it. This forum breaks through to that memory sometimes and I enjoy that but I would be of little help I am afraid. However, your 'little' brother has a wealth of knowledge locked away there and good recall too. Why don't you start it off and see how you go? The school photos in the gallery are a good starting point too. |
Susan Knox nee Currie
Sutton
Saturday, June 11, 2016 21:00 |
You are correct about Georgina Currie. She is one of my older sisters. The eldest is Dolly then Joan, Georgina, Anne me and a younger brother Ian. The three eldest were born in Liverpool then Anne and I in Ethel Street Ellers Road, Ian was born in Park Avenue. Georgina, Anne and I were burlers and Menders at Bairstows. Georgie married Keith Longbottom, Dolly Leonard Myers, Joan Frank Brown, Anne Stanley Matthews now with Andrew Squires |
Susan Knox nee Currie
Sutton
Saturday, June 11, 2016 21:06 |
Denis I forgot to say Patsy Howard was one of our many cousins. We were a huge family who moved from Liverpool 1939's we all lived up Ellers |
Brenda Whitaker
Queensland Australia
Saturday, June 11, 2016 23:01 |
There you go... Susan, you have already started Denis' wish list of who is where and who with..Bairstow's burlers and menders is a happy memory for many of us - a good boss too with Frank Barrett. before I start on some other names I had better stimulate my brain a bit more though. Thanks Susan.
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Denis Marshall Pickles
Norfolk
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 08:25 |
Thanks for the information re the Currie family, where you lived, who you married, from where you came etc.. I wonder what led the family to move from Liverpool to Sutton? Work? I don't think the bombing of Liverpool had started in 1939. To be honest, the only name I recognise is that of Leonard Myers. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he the son of a village policeman and for a while the Landlord at the Kings Arms?
Joan's name was one of several appearing on the Council School Honours Board for 1943. She won a County Minor Scholarship (Commercial) along with Joyce Feather and Mary Riddiough. Any idea where the Commercial School was? I presume it was a girls only school and the main subjects would have been shorthand and typing? |
Alan Smith
Sutton
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 11:30 |
The commercial school was along with the junior technical school were accommodated in what was the old Keighley girls grammar school down Strawberry st at thetime I went to the junior tech, as for the commercial school being an all girls school in my time there one class had one boy in it the rest were all girls. |
Susan Knox nee Currie
Sutton
Saturday, June 25, 2016 07:50 |
Hello again Denis. Yes, you are correct about with your recall about Leonard. Unfortunately he is no longer with us.
Joan did win a scholarship but remained at Sutton Primary leaving at 14 Yrs.
Our family arrived in Yorkshire around about 1900. As far as we know our great grandmother Sarah Howard was widowed while in Liverpool. She moved to Bell Busk with her four daughters to work in the silk mill but also left some family in Liverpool. From Bell Busk they moved to
Skipton. They obviously maintained close contact with family in Liverpool because my aunt (also widowed) with two children moved to Yorkshire to stay with a cousin and find work. The majority of the family followed and the rest is history (as they say). You may know the two children Bob Currie and Joe Stuart |
Susan Knox nee Currie
Sutton
Saturday, June 25, 2016 10:26 |
I have just called to see my sisters. Georgie remembers you Denis and says they were talking to your brother Colin? Over the garden wall some time ago. He was at school with her second husband John Newton.
My sister Anne also reminded me about Christine Pickles who was in my primary school class. Was she your sister Denis?
Georgie also remembers you Brenda and says she as still got your wedding present a set of crocheted dressing table mats. How old fashioned do they sound!!! Many young ones will not know what a dressing table was.
Also Brenda, do you remember a family called Kellet? They lived near your family at the end of Bridge Road. Their daughter Margaret was in my class. I think there was a son. They migrated when we were still at primary school. |
Denis Marshall Pickles
Norfolk
Sunday, June 26, 2016 09:10 |
All this reminiscing derives from a couple of sketches which I submitted a few weeks ago! The scenes haven't changed a lot but in the sixty years which have elapsed since I left the village, plenty has. A silk mill at Bell Busk! You learn something new every day!
Thanks for filling in the background as to how the Currie's came to be in Sutton. And it's nice to know that I am remembered by some - wonder if the memories are good or bad? Colin Pickles was my cousin. He lived next door to us in Bent Lane with his mum and dad (Betty and Walter) and his younger sister Christine. Sadly Colin, who was a partner with David Hill in an Estate agency in Skipton, died whilst a relatively young man. My brother Alan, who is a regular contributor to these pages, served in the Police and now lives in Bingley. |
Brenda Whitaker
Queensland Australia
Sunday, June 26, 2016 21:15 |
Hi Susan -I have some of those crochet mats too, my Grandma Grime did them, she could crochet with her eyes closed I think because even when she could hardly see she still made these fine crochet mats - and, I still use one or two of them, how old fashioned is that - they stand the test of time that is for sure!!
Kellet children - Terrence and Margaret - yes, they had the corner house on Bridge Road - went to New Zealand to Dunedin I think. Occasionally Michael Towers will contribute on these pages, he and his younger sister Shirley lived a couple of doors further up King Edward Street, and Ruby ??. On the other side of the back street which became Gordon Street was Alan Catterall - Eastfield Place next street along were Margaret Wilson and Jean Palfreman and their families of course - I am just naming the same vintage really. At the top of Gordon were Brocklesbys and round the corner Rita Overend, then at the farm the Inghams - Of course there were more but those names pop into my head immediately.
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Susan Knox nee Currie
Sutton
Monday, June 27, 2016 20:30 |
Hello Brenda. Interesting to hear about grandma Grimes. Crocheting was a way of life for many of that era-although many of those skills are making a come back.
If you look on the website for the 1953 sutton primary school class Margaret Kellet is on it. As soon as I read the name Terence I could see him in my minds eye-strange isn't it? All the names that you mentioned are familiar to me. it was Ruby Clarkson who lived near you along with her younger sister Margaret. Margaret Wilson and husband sometimes go on holiday with my sister Georgie.
Denis I am glad that you clarified who you were because my sisters and I were tying ourselves in knots trying to work out the different families.
All the best to you both |
