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Post by paul clough on Apr 26, 2006 7:38:31 GMT
Memories of Wilf Bell Memories of New Brancepeth and Ushaw Moor I offer this piece, having been inspired by the heart warming articles written by Mr McLoughlin and others. Why do we indulge in going back? From my point of view it is partly to enable me to understand why I am what I am today. It is a case of looking at my roots and tracing subsequent developments. It is also a pleasure to look back and there is nothing wrong with doing that, as long as one lives in the present and has hopes and plans for the future.......... READ MORE >>> HERE
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Post by stbedes on Apr 17, 2008 20:13:11 GMT
"I Am Where I Am From" I've often thought that I am where I was born, I am where I was raised, and I am where I was educated, I am where I have worked, and I am my Mamma and my Father, I am my My Aunt Rose, who had twelve toes and might have been a witch.
I am where my kinfolks came from, I am the roads they walked, the talk they talked, the smells they smelled, the flowers they loved, the hills they explored, I am them and they, me, their history is my history,
I am the blackcaps song That I heard when I was four, The sagging old barn door Near the Working Men’s Club where Steve Hicks kissed me, I am dirt roads and their dust… The icebox rust; The locomotive sounds, I am my cat Emily, I am the dirt between my toes, I am just like my Auntie Rose.
4:12pm, maggie blue
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Post by paul clough on Feb 2, 2014 10:37:25 GMT
A Brave Lad From A Big Family January 28, 2014Back in 1911 Joe Towns was a pit deputy at Ushaw Moor and twenty years into a marriage to Leadgate born Gertrude. They were living at 5 West Terrace, Ushaw Moor, with their nine children, namely: Thomas Matthew [aged 19], Mary Agnes [18], Joseph Richard [16], Louisa [14], Aloysius [15], Robert Gerard [9], Annie [8], Lily Monica [6], and John [2]. By autumn 1915 Joseph Richard Towns was a Petty Officer and won the Distinguish Service Medal for gallantry and courageous conduct at Cape Helles, together with Petty Officer M Convery of Sherburn Colliery. At midnight they crept to within 15 -20 yards of enemy trenches, which were filled with dead bodies but had been evacuated by Turks. Towns and Convery removed the bodies and built a barricade of sandbags, despite heavy enemy firing. It seems to me that the two Petty Officers did not know what the situation was when they started on their way and were certainly very, very, brave in their determination to find out and do something about it! A relative of mine, Joseph Hope of Ushaw Moor, was killed by machine gun fire at that time, and not far from that action, but was not involved in this particular incident. WB
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