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Dear Readers
We are sourcing what we can from the Library’s holdings and have added 1940-1941, 1943-1950 in the last 24 hours.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/id/staffordshire-sentinel
Thank you all for your continued interest in this title, and Happy Reading!
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Lovely good idea and many thanks for your site which has been a great resource for us. I wonder if you could include a query from us on your Board, please, relating to a family who lived and worked in Ryecroft from the 1930s?
There are 3 names we're interested in. The family name is WRIGG, one of whom married a PEARSON, and one of whose son's married a BARBER. With the exception of Robert, who says he was born in Salford, they were all born in Ashton under Lyne.
Robert WRIGG married Millison [Mille] Pearson daughter of Thomas PEARSON and Ann about 1930. They lived in Ryecroft (street) in 1951 and in Buckley Street in 1966 when Robert died. Robert was a carder in a cotton mill. Their first two sons, John and William [Rigg] both married in Ashton, had families and continued to work in the mills. John married Ann and William married Elizabeth Wragg. Both were spinners. James, the third son and my ancestor, married Mary Jane Barber [b. 1940 daughter of Lewis BARBER ] in 1961. She lived in Stockport Road and he lived in Moss Side. Both were power loom weavers in Ashton. After Robert's death, James moved his family to Wakefield and set up as a hairdresser. Thomas Pearson Wrigg was born in 1840. He moved his family to Birkenhead where he died aged 39. His family remained there. Nothing is known about, Hannah, Elizabeth or Samuel Wrigg b. 1850.
If any of this means anything to anyone, I should like to hear from them, please.
Many thanks
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I lived in Outwood from birth up to 1972 when I moved to Morley. My father had a bicycle shop on Leeds Rd which is now a hair and beauty salon. I went to Ledger lane school and then QEGS in Wakefield. I have many fond memories of the village such as Saturday matinee film shows at the Outwood Empire (6 old pence), cycling and rambling around the footpaths between Newton Hill and Ouchthorpe lane, playing footy on the 'rec' near what is now Victoria Way, Alf Hallas delivering milk around the village with his horse and cart (no bottles, he ladled it from churns into our own jugs), dipping for sticklebacks in the pond off Grey St, fish and chips from Annies (still the same name I see), collecting empties and taking them back to the jug and bottle door at the Queen to collect the deposits, delivering papers all over the village for Sykes newsagents, I could go on and on. Great site - enjoying looking at all the old photos
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3,212 votesJoyce Lawrence
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Used to live in scholar green and kent green and used to be in daylight
band at methodist church with joe agnew as manager .got any photos?
lost touch with everybody from the area.i would to here from any old
pals.i beleive john holland still lives in the cheshire view most
nights.
heres living in hope
best regards to every one at mowcop.com