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I know you!

It’s lovely to read all your memories especially yours Deb, my best friend! I was at Berwick Road Primary school from 1960-1965, I remember the aptly named Mrs Pie the dinner lady, also Mr Jones the new assistant head who had radical ideas on education, and an equally radical hair style. One of the first classes I remember him teaching was English, he came into the class with a metal bucket and a jug of water, he dripped the water into the metal bucket cast a dramatic eye around his class and said Wrrite!! ( 2 rr's to emphasise his wonderful Welsh accent) He was an early proponent of 'brain gym', firing mental arithmetic at the class while he danced around ...read more here
A memory of Little Sutton contributed by Janet Taylor

old friends

Hi, I can see that Janet Lee has posted some info, I am wondering if you are the older sister of Patricia Lee or perhaps another relative. Their family emigrated to Australia on the Canberra some time in the early 1960s. I was also a pupil at Berwick Road and recognise some of the names that have been mentioned as well as all the locations such as the rec, nature walks up Margarets Lane, library (& the grotty little circus on the land there). Rivacre baths - used to get there by walking through the bluebell woods and across the brook in Rivacre valley, spend the day there (took jam sandwiches), and used to try and save 6d and walk the ...read more here
A memory of Little Sutton contributed by debra richards

Little Sutton Shops

The church was the Presbyterian and the fruit and veg shop also sold fish (Tommy Jones, fish).  There was a  furniture shop (Flackets)  On the corner of Ledsham was Miss (although a Mrs.) Locket’s.  Over Ledsham past the bank I remember a real estate agent and of course Williams the Carlton with their wonderful cakes.  There was something before Finefare but I don’t remember what (furniture?). Tommy Hind the butcher was closer to the bridge than the supermarket.  Back towards Chester I remember a shop that sold material and linen, Williams the Dairy who made fantastic icecream, and then Brighams the Chemist on the corner.  On the other corner was Nancarrow the ironmonger, the shoe repairer, an old-fashioned sweet shop and ...read more here

Little Sutton Shops

Just a few memories of what shops were there in Little Sutton around the time this photograph was taken, starting on the near left of the picture you had the food CO-OP, the white church followed by the fruit and veg shop, a hair dressers and two other shops (???). Over the Ledsham Road junction was a bank on the corner followed by about three shops, one of which was a shop called the Carlton which was a bit like a deli that sold cakes. On the opposite side of the road was a big supermarket called Finefare (which is where the big pine shop is now), coming back this way from there was a bank, a butchers, a veg shop ...read more here
A memory of Little Sutton contributed by Tony Franklin