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Park Hill Farm, Stramshall Parish
My grandfather was enlightened in many ways. He permitted the children from the western side of the town, to bathe and swim, at The Pipe, boundary with campbells, The Basin, near to stramshall footpath, subject to no litter, and interference with animals. This was permitted long after his death by my family, until 1972, when the farm was sold, due to the deaths of my aunts.
Contributed by john mellor
Growing up with all my relatives living in Stramshall Parish
I was born in 1928, to John James and Olive Mellor, my grandfather was Percival Jackson Mellor, my grandmother Mary Ellen Mellor. They built with help Park Hill Farm, New Road, Uttoxeter, paying tithes to Stramshall Parish. All the family went to Stramshall Church, all my parents, uncles, and grandparents are buried in Stramshall Church. The first Vicar I remember was the Rev Charlon, an Anglican churchman of the old school. My great uncle, Thomas, lives with his wife Selina at Hill top Farm(Cottages). I spent my youth between the two farms and the surrounding fields. With the River Tean running between, it was an exciting place to grow up.
Contributed by john mellor
Staffordshire memories
Narrow boat 'Bellatrix'.
This is a photograph of me as a young man operating my passenger carrying narrow boat 'Bellatrix', trading as Midland Navigation Packet Boat Service. 'Bellatrix' is a traditional narrow boat built in 1935 at Yarwoods of Northwich.
A memory of Kinver contributed by Mr C Sherwood
Bailey Bridge Pontoon - Canal Cruisers.
I built the boat shown on the right hand side of the photograph.
Bailey Bridge pontoon MKVI N0.19053 was manufactured by Gee Walker & Slater Ltd, Uttoxeter Road, Derby and sent to Engineers Stores, US Army Depot, Newbury, Berkshire on 29/9/1944. At post-war WD surplus sales, a considerable number of these Bailey Bridge pontoons were bought by Levesley's International and stored at their depot at Alrewas near Burton on Trent.
John Dobson, a local boat builder at Burton, began putting cabins on to these pontoons for sale as canal cruisers. I bought the pontoon hull for £18.00, built the cabin to a Dobson design, fitted out the interior and named it 'Agenor'. In August 1950, powered by a British Anzani 4HP outboard ...read more here
A memory of Great Haywood contributed by Alwyn Davies
Extracts From Stramshall & Staffordshire books
The elegant, classical façade of the Shire Hall has dominated the Market
Square since it was built in 1798, replacing an earlier Elizabethan
hall. It housed the county and assize courts and the meetings of the
magistrates, and from 1972 until 1991, the Crown Court. It is now
occupied by the Art Gallery and the Library. To the right are the offices of
the Paramount Building Society and the Co-operative Insurance Society
above the Midland Bank.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
The elegant, classical façade of the Shire Hall has dominated the Market
Square since it was built in 1798, replacing an earlier Elizabethan
hall. It housed the county and assize courts and the meetings of the
magistrates, and from 1972 until 1991, the Crown Court. It is now
occupied by the Art Gallery and the Library. To the right are the offices of
the Paramount Building Society and the Co-operative Insurance Society
above the Midland Bank.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
In 1737 a Stafford mercer, John Stevenson, started a bank, one of the
earliest outside London. As other banks opened it became known as
the Old Bank, the name seen here on the building to the left of the
Shire Hall. In 1866 it merged with Lloyds Bank, who still occupy
the premises.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
The flag flies over the Guildhall, which was built in
1934-5. Underneath the stained glass windows of the
council chamber we can see the arcade of shops leading
to the Market Hall, flanked by Marley Modes, a ladies’
dress shop, and Bradleys, a gentlemen’s outfitters. The
extensive bus shelters and the railings of the underground
public lavatories can be seen in the foreground.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
Well-known stores occupy buildings of very different periods. F W
Woolworth’s, with its large window display and traditional sign, occupies
a building which dates back to the 15th century, while the foundation
stones of Burton’s menswear shop, with its flamboyant sign, were laid in
1935 by Henry Montague Burton and Stanley Howard Burton.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".