Nostalgic memories of Stramshall's local history
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My name is Robert Mellor , my grandfather was Percival Thomas Mellor and as a young boy I used to be taken to my grandfathers relatives at Uttoxeter. We visited two farms there which were joined together, both were dairy farms the top farm was run by a man who I called uncle Tom and the bottom by a woman I called aunt Selena, she had six sons if I remember correctly.
My grand father came tp Ripley Before ...see more
I remember going to school in the village. My family were all from the village and worked for JCB, maybe someone knows my family, the Tompkinsons. It would be nice to heare from someone who knows them or relatives, as I have not been back for 20 years.
September 1958 I meet a vagrant I knew.
In 1957, I was appointed to be Village Constable, at Lower Penn, Wolverhampton, an upper class district of wolverhampton. My station, was in Springhill Park. The beat was divided by the A449, The SW Trunk Road, no M5 in those days. One side of the beat was Lower Penn, the other Penn Common, both different. It was my wont to be on the main road, in the ...see more
I was trying to remember the number of crashed aircraft I had seen, and, in another life, dealt with. Despite the closeness of many airfields, Church Broughton being the closest if you ignore the Marchington airstrip, I could only remember one, during my schooldays.
This was an Airspeed Oxford, it crashed in Hollington Lane, Stramshall, behind a house, which ...see more
Over Here...
The first American troops to arrive in our part of the world arrived in 1942. The came to what became know as Sudbury Camp (nearly in Marchington). A hospital was built at the present site of HMP Prison. A great marshalling yard was built outside Sudbury Railway Station. The first American troops were transportation types, not infantrymen. Firstly, they were all white, then black soldiers arrived. ...see more
When the searchlights came...
During the Second World War, Uttoxeter hardly knew that the war was on, although our young men and women kept leaving, and rationing was severe. One change to us all, on the park side of the town, was the opening of the bypass in 1939. The war stopped operations, and of the dual carriageway (a source of wonder to me) only one lane was open, the nearside side, facing ...see more
My grandfather and grandmother built Park Hill Farm together, with hired labour for the roofing. My grandfather was a farmer, wheelwright and a skilled carpenter, his elder brother, Thomas, who lived at the original Mellor family home (called variously Hill Top Farm, Hill Top Cottages) near the bridle path which leads to the River Tean, was a master at most ...see more
Our police officers, left after mobilisation and known to me, were PC Whale, Stramshall. Sergeants Anderson (Div Clerk), Sgt. Chamberlaind (Great War veteran) and PC Jack Blower, who was called the Black Abbot, I never knew why. All ARP activities were police controlled and during 1941/2 parachutes, clearly German, were found at Bramshall, Stramshall and Marchington. We were then ...see more
A walk with grandfather « Thread Started Yesterday at 2:03pm » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Walk with Grandfather. I was about 11 years old, one summer's day, when I noticed my grandfather, who lived at Park Hill Farm, New Road, Uttoxeter (Parish of Stramshall) was preparing to go out. He had his walking stick, that meant no horse and trap. His ...see more
Uttoxeter did not suffer much during the war. The first stick of bombs fell in a field at Loxley, and a further stick followed later. The only 'blitz' was on the Bailey and Mellor families, in New Road (parish of Stramshall) - exact date forgotten, 1941/2. I was at home at 57 Park Avenue. My father was on Home Guard duties (he was too old for military service) at Bamfords Ltd, not JCB. I usually got up ...see more