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Walking with my Dad
I was 5 years old when I remembered my Dad taking me for a walk through Stapehill Gardens. I always remember the large swan with the flowers around it. I often go back and have a photo taken of the swan, it's a beautiful scene and I shall visit the swan again this year.
Contributed by JOSEPH HALYCKYJ
Staffordshire memories
Walking with my Dad
I was 5 years old when I remembered my Dad taking me for a walk through Stapehill Gardens. I always remember the large swan with the flowers around it. I often go back and have a photo taken of the swan, it's a beautiful scene and I shall visit the swan again this year.
A memory of Burton-On-Trent contributed by JOSEPH HALYCKYJ
Holiday in Rolleston
My mother was taken from Tamworth to Rolleston by her Grannie (nee Maria Pegg) for a holiday in a cottage. My mother remembers that the man in the cottage was a brewery worker. He used to bring black stuff like sweets for them to eat. Mum would have been 7 or 8 as she wrote a letter to her mum. We don't know who this man was but could have been a brother.
A memory of Rolleston-On-Dove contributed by Ann Ball
Childhood playground
I was lucky enough to live in the High Street in Tutbury in the 1960s and Tutbury Castle was my playground - we used to spend hours up there climbing on the walls and up the twisting stairs of the towers. One fond memory is one of my friends being dared to walk across the grille covering the well (quite deep, but almost empty) and getting her foot stuck. We had to take her shoe off and almost dropped it down the well! I also remember buying dandelion and burdock pop from the little shop, and making sure we returned the empty bottles to collect our deposits! And I remember the stories about the castle being haunted but never saw anything ...read more here
A memory of Tutbury contributed by Cherry-Ann Dowling
Extracts From Burton-On-Trent & Staffordshire books
The River Trent at Burton is now crossed by three bridges: Burton Bridge, built in 1864, the iron Angelsey Bridge and the Stapenhill Viaduct, which is in fact a footbridge.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
Situated about 50 yards below the ferry bridge, the riverside gardens, laid out in 1933, are still well-maintained
and attractively stocked. Blooms continue to be planted in soil contained between the white-painted swan’s wings.
Mothers continue to bring their children here and only fashions in hair, clothing and prams seem to have changed.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
The Trent tends to split into several channels and produce islands on its flood plain as it passes close to the town,
having collected the grossly polluted River Tame five miles upstream. Thankfully, water from springs, not the Trent,
has always been used by the town’s brewers. Andressy Bridge, built in 1884, joining Andressy Island to the town,
is featured in this view from Hay Walk.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
The railway came to Burton in 1839 with the opening of the Birmingham & Derby Junction. One immediate effect was that the railways provided the breweries with a golden opportunity to reach more outlets and sell more beer. In the 1960s Burton was notorious for the number of level crossings that existed in and around the town on the brewery railway system.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
The parish church is dedicated to St Modwen, the founder of a 7th century Christian settlement at Burton. The first monastic house in the county was founded at Burton, endowed by the Saxon thegn, Wulfric Spot. The Benedictine abbey survived until the Dissolution, when its lands were acquired by Sir William Paget.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".