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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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It was good growing up in the prefabs on Winn's Common. I am now 58 *(2019). My brother Joey and I (that's us in the picture) lived at 46 Winn's Common, by the bus stop where the 53 bus used to stop, before going down King's Highway to Plumstead Bus Garage.
Christopher and Dennis Gates, Barry Smith, Joey and myself, Kathleen Faithfull and my dad Joe.
We were the first prefab in our turning; (they had no names) it was a strange shape. Straight for about four prefabs and ballooned out with a grass circle in the middle, it then narrowed and went straight again to the road called Winn's Common Road (although I was never aware it had a name at all). All the prefabs had their own gardens. Ours had a corrugated iron shed which coal was kept in (an old Anderson air raid shelter). We had a pull-down table in the small kitchen; on winter mornings the oven rings were on full and our clothes would be placed around to warm them. We would eat our breakfast sitting round the oven. We had a bathroom but when it was very cold we bathed in a tin bath in front of the fire.There was a church hall right at the top of Lakedale Road, at an odd sort of angle (*The Ascension Hall, long demolished). The paddling pool is still there, but the sand has been replaced with volleyball. We used to jump from one concrete block to the next and spent many happy hours every summer there
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Hi everyone
I was facinated to find this site because both my mother's parents were born and brought up in Goldenhill, although they moved away in the 1930's.
However my Great Aunt May Eplett was headmistress at on of the primary schools in Goldenhill (I think it was attached to St john's church) and I remember visiting her there on several occassions during the 1960's just before she retired.
I would love to hear any stories or memories that anyone has of her or "The Collinsons" who were my Maternal Great grandmothers family.
I would also be interested if anyone could tell me anything about a small chapel near Acres Nook, my greatgreatgreat grandfather, Edward Eplett is apparently buried there – I recently visited the area but could find no trace of any chapel, so any information as to where it is or what happened to it would be of interest.