North Featherstone 1960's

Hello michael
I remember your shop the post office and all the lovely
sweets i lived on manor drive timothy westwood my mum died last year she was 95 i was at the same school when Mrs Peasant was head mistress

Hi David. I was only talking about your Dad yesterday. Loved that shop. I remember you being born, and your parents, who took over the shop from Mr and Mrs Cross. Also Tim, spent many hours in your house with your brothers. Really respected your mum, who had a spotless house despite being totally skint and on her own with a big family. Best wishes. Allan Siddall. PS. I can still name pretty much every family in the estate from the 50s so made a big impression...

By the way, the house in the photo was Mynett's. John Mynett's was a great pole vaulter...

Hello Timothy,
Nice to hear from you. Sorry to hear about your Mum. 95 was a grand age though. Mum and Dad knew your family well, with it being a local shop & Post Office. Always spoke fondly of folks in the village. Had some laughs. Some right characters!! Happy days. Dad is still going, but sadly, his memory is very llimited due to dementia.

Hello Allan,
Michael not David, lol. I was 2 when Mum & Dad took over the shop, but yes it was from Mr & Mrs Cross. Think they had the shop for many years previously. I can just remember Mr Cross from when I was little. He still kept the allotment behind the shop.
As I mentioned to Timothy, Dad is still going (he's 88 now).

Timothy & Allan,
Some more names from the Junior School on Church Lane - Mrs Wilson, Mrs Corbett, Daisy Walkington (caretaker - lived in house in school playground) and Miss? Toft, who lived in the house at the bottom of the playground. She used to walk through the playground with her black Scottish Terrier (never used to speak to the kids though). As a kid, I was always a bit wary of her and the dog.

Some more names in North Featherstone. Other shops on Church Lane belonged to the Rileys and Mr Rowley. Lapish's (son John in my class at junior school)had the fish & chip shop, later taken over by Ross' taxis. Alan Morris, later Pearson. Ibbotsons ( son, Marcus) had the big house at the end nearest the Sun Inn. Used to play football on their big lawn. Vic Webster was the local blacksmith based in Derry's yard (can remember them shoeing a horse there). Mr Roberts ran the Working Men's club. Families on the estate - Slaters, Smiths, Mayons. Remember Darryl Pye at school. Also Peter Johnson, Terry Longbottom, Peter Trevor (was in church choir with him for a while). Vicar was Rev Nelson. Just some names springing to mind.

I just found this site by accident and thrilled to see so many well remembered names. My name is Sheila (then Lynch) and I grew up on Normanton View, now Cutsyke Road I think, and lived with my grandparents. I left at 15 when my gran died and lived in Leeds before emigrating with my husband and daughter to Sydney. Since then have travelled the world and now live with my partner in Italy. I visited North Feath in the 80s and caught up with a lovely old friend Edith Mosley who is now a facebook friend. Some well remembered names, some I've seen here....John Rowley, Ian Walkington, Richard Copley, John Mahon, Glennis Siddall (Allan was her younger brother I think), Pauline Williams, Brenda Darlison, Alan Wilkinson, Roger (Dogger) Davies, Harold (Clem) Hemingway, June Price, Elizabeth Rowley, Stephen Webster (who I saw have an accident near the Bradley Arms), Mrs Peasant, Miss Hemingway, the Gospel Hall, Mr Cross, the lovely smell of Mr Webster's blacksmith shop when he shod the horses. Times were tough for family reasons but great memories of lovely people. I haven't lived in England since 75 but still feel you can't beat Yorkshire folk!

Hi Sheila. Great to make contact. I remember you very well. Although I was a little kid at the time I remember you were a great artist. You were at our house quite a bit and drew a brilliant donkey for us to pin a tail on for my birthday... I was only about 7 when you moved to Leeds but I've often wondered how you went on. I'm pleased and not surprised that you had an interesting life in between.

Yes she was Miss Mary Toft ,a dear friend of my nan ,Mrs Edie Forbes who was the nursery teacher at the infant school, when miss Toft taught . Not sure if the school is still there it was just a nursery and infants school the headmistress was a Miss Canning, teachers: Mrs Brooks, Miss Hetty Carter, Miss Toft, and a tall blond woman who emigrated to Tasmania. I went there from around 2.5 to 5.., I have clear memories of warm fires, and real cooked school lunches. There was a bakery close by too, so fresh baps and dripping butties, in the early mornings. My Grandpa was time keeper at a pit in Pontefract. Sadly both passed away in 1977/78..But I still have pictures of the school.

The wee dog was Jock and yes I remember him being very snappy too.....