Ushaw Moor Memories (Backup)

Memories of Ushaw Moor and Deerness Valley

Thursday 27 October 2011

Right up your street

A couple of articles have been posted on the memories blog giving details of of a particular street and who occupied the houses in that street. It occurred to me that this may be of use to people doing their family research etc.

So please have a think back to your past and jot down who you remember in your street in Ushaw Moor.

You can add it to the facebook page, but even better would be to add it here on the BLOG. If you are not registered simply email me at memories@ushawmoor.org.uk requesting to join.

Thanks and I look forward to reading your submissions.

Paul :)

18 comments:

  1. Hi from a newbie!

    I lived in Arthur Street (no.7) in the mid 80's and up to approx 2000.

    I remember the Kerrs from number 2...The Masons from no 10 (billy and laura), the Flowers from further up, the Fullards at number.. 19ish?. This isn't going back too far i suppose, but i'm not that old, see! :p
    I think some of them still live there...possibly.

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  2. Thanks for your comments Matt and welcome.

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  3. I started off at 1yr old in Holborn Court. I remember there was the Burtons, the Yellands, Robinsons, Donoghue's and the McCourts.. no idea which numbers they lived at though. At 9 we moved into the village into 4/5 Durham Road which was a shop. We sold clothes and stuff. I believe this is now a house again. The only ones I remember from that street are the Kirbys, and the dear old lady next four who made the best bread and butter pudding ever! At 11 I moved down south where I still live. Haven't been back up much lately..

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  4. Hi Lisa and thanks for your comments, good to hear from ex-ushaw moorians ! What was your shop called ?

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  5. Maple Park, mid fifties-early sixties the surnames I remember are Melia, Jolly, Mettace and Elliot. Victoria Court, same dates Mc Pherson, Turnbull, Pearson. Ash Avenue, Potts, Harrison, Joyce. I moved to Nottinghamshire aged seven and still know the Jolly and Turnbull family, my sister married Carl Turnbull in Notts 25 years after we left Ushaw Moor!

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  6. As for a family history interest - surnames in my family are Harrison, Pearson, Holliday, Turner, Turnbull, Crampton, Campion, FitzPatrick, Rothwell, Surtees, and many others with links to Ushaw Moor and the Deerness Valley.

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  7. Hi Lisa, just speaking to my Mam she didn't remember a shop in Durham Road, are you sure it was Durham Road and not Broom Lane ?

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  8. Hi there, yeah it was definitely Durham Road. We moved to the shop in 1980 it was only a couple of door down from the flass. The butchers was opposite us. Our front had steps up to the door with a large hard area with railings round. We were there for a couple if years. We were the only shop on that side of the road.

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  9. Just talking to my mum, it was a police station many years ago, then either a bakers or butchers not sure which.. we sold clothes etc.. we had a retired policeman next door to us who had been a bobby in the village for years.

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  10. Ok thanks for that so you were opposite Lawsons Butchers...

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  11. Hi Lisa, 4/5 Durham Road used to be the police station, then sold to Sid Brown the baker as a shop. They had a bakery at the bottom of Station Road behind Brough's shop. The next owners were your family who sold clothes etc, the next owner was my sister-in-law Lorna Smith who turned it into a hairdressing shop. Lorna's hairdressing shop was moved from the basement of Sandy's (male Barbers) shop over the road to 4/5 Durham Road. My sister-in-law retired from hairdressing and turned the shop into a house, they still live in the property.

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  12. Yes I member it both as a clothes shop and hairdessers as y mam Maureen Hope (then Jefferson) use to there

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  13. I think that there was a bakers named Browns on Durham Road. My great aunt Sarah owned number 13 Durham Road for a time.

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  14. My nana used to get her hair done there!
    Then Lorna started coming to her house to do it, i remember her bringing in the drier and other stuff. Sadly my nana died in 2001.
    I live right behind Durham Road and sometimes talk to Lornas sister and husband when he's out in the back lane.

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  15. Sorry, it may not have leen Lorna who did my nanas hair, it was her sister, i think she has a similar name.

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  16. i think i maybe a great granddaughter of jolly family you speak of :) hi they still live in nottinghamshire and are doing well.

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  17. linda smith ne fullard25 March 2014 at 13:37

    THE fULLARDS U REMEMBER IN artheur street were my auntiy LILLY and Uncle Tommy sadly thay are no longer with us

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  18. I was friends with Paul Fullard, son of Terry i believe. He is a couple of years older than me so we grew apart, i think he's still in the area though. His mam and dad moved over the road to Dale street

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