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Nostalgic memories of Bolton Upon Dearne's local history

Share your own memories of Bolton Upon Dearne and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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Displaying Memories 1 - 10 of 16 in total

Miner
My uncle Des emigrated from Dublin to Coronation Drive, Bolton On Dearne in 1950, he became a miner. In the course of writing letters home he told my mam that the streets of Bolton on Dearne were paved with gold, he had actually misspelled coal for gold. Mam and Dad and baby followed Des in 1956. They were living in Des’s house with him and his wife, l was due in a few weeks so mam found lodgings in Furlong Road, ...see more
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Added 14 March 2022

My School Days
I went to a home in Harold wood called wouldstock and the children home was run by mr and Mrs papwoth they was very nice people I was there 1969 there was a boy called Tom Dooley I look up the home gone now so meny good memories I wonder what happened to mr and Mrs papwoth it funny how you think back from there I went to a hassoberry school hazel lane bishstrofod had fun there there was a miss donlope she was south Africa miss evens miss Bogg miss Dollier like to know what happened to them
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Added 31 July 2020

Bolton Hall
My grandparents lived at the co-op in Bolton. My grandad was the manager there in the 1930 s. Their names were Percy and Irene Ibberson. Later they moved to Wath, to the big shop in the centre. My mother, Lilian, worked at Bolton Hall during the war. She told me it was the HQ of the northern command. Some high ranking officers were in charge there. I think some Italian ex POWs worked there too. I'd be ...see more
Bolton-upon-Dearne, Bolton Hall c1955
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Added 22 July 2016

Good All Days
I went to Dearneside school,then worked at Bolton Hall. I loved to go jiving at Wath upon Dearne every week end. Yes the good old days. Who else remembers 1959 with fond memorys. Mary Handyside
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Added 20 November 2014

Joseph Askew
My Great Grandad Joseph Askew came to Bolton-upon-Dearne around 1876 from Lincolnshire . He worked at the newly opened Wath Main Colliery (where there is now a Golf Course) On doing my family tree I found out the he and his wife Sarah had 14 children, 7 boys and 7 girls. They lived in the old Ladycroft Terraced houses across from the Collingwood Pub in a 2 up 2 down house. (Makes me wonder how they ...see more
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Added 29 October 2013

258 Furlong Road
I was born at 258 Furlong Road in 1944. I lived there with my mum and gran for 5 years till we moved over to Purston Featherstone in 1950. My gran was called Elsie Nowell, the years we spent there were wonderful...I always classed Bolton-Upon-Dearne my home. I would love it if I had a photo of that part of Furlong Road. They called the street Packies, there was a shop 2 or 3 doors down from gran's it ...see more
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Added 11 May 2013

Growing Up In The Pit Houses
We were raised in a pit house on Springfield (sometimes 'Avenue') near the far end of Ings Lane, in the fifties. It was a small street, only 6 houses. 2 or 3 keys would open both front and back doors (and the coal-house) of the whole street; but you hardly ever locked the door anyway. Often our small 'gang' walked over the lane towards Broomhill where there was a small wood. We would pinch ...see more
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Added 10 May 2013

Early Childhood In Bolton On Dearne
I was born (Dec 1948) over my mothers hairdressing shop in Furlong Road (number 123 I think) , next door to Peter Creighton the butcher (Peter and his wife Alice were my godparents). I can just remember my mother doing her hairdressing while I watched from the back room. I think that one of her customers was the mother of Brian Blessed(?) When my parents seperated we moved to ...see more
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Added 01 October 2012

Looking For My Bolton Family
My Grandmother kept a newsagents shop on the High Street in Bolton after her husband Frank died in the Bolton typhoid epidemic, leaving her to bring up their three children. She was Ada Beatrice Vamplew and her daughter, Vera, was my mother. Vera died when I was 8 and for some time I lived with her sister's family, my Auntie and Uncle, Madge and Albert Parkin and their daughter Barbara. My ...see more
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Added 30 September 2012

The Coombs Family From Kent Approz 1921 1935
My dad, lived with his family in Bolton upon Dearne from the age of about 3yrs in 1921. They were (like many others) very poor. My grandad, Frank Coombs (who my dad is named for) and my nan, Henrietta (Hetti) with children Margaret (peggy), Nell, Frank, Sid moved for work in the flour mill. The two younger children were born in Bolton upon Dearne, they were Nelson (Nip) ...see more
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Added 10 June 2012