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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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I lived at Betton Hall from 1942 - 1957, with my three brothers. As wartime evacuees from Manchester, we lived with the Crompton family who had three sons in the RAF; two were killed and the surviving son, who was a Lancaster bomber pilot, flew 60 missions.
We rafted on the lake in the summer when we spent long lazy hours fishing. It was idyllic, and in the winter when it froze to a thickness of several inches, we skated and sledged. Through the long hard winter of 1940, we were snowed in for weeks.
The family always dressed for dinner in the evenings when the men wore dinner suits and the ladies wore long evening gowns. They were summoned to the dining room by a loud gong which could be heard all over the house. After dinner in summer the family usually sat out on the terrace to chat and drink coffee. There was a very productive walled kitchen garden and a pretty rose garden with bee hives. It was an age that has now gone for ever.
After the death of Mr.Crompton, the house was sold to a builder who cut down all the majestic cedars and other magnificent trees. In the early 1890s, Oswald Mosley's mother took her family to live there after discovering her husband had been unfaithful to her. Now only a third of its original size, it stands as a sad but fond memory of its former self. I kept in touch with the family until the last one died six years ago, age 94.Angie
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I was also hired in 1965 to drive the Ashton New Road, Dale Street to Kershaw Lane route and the Stevenson Square to Sunnyside Road route for Maynes buses.
I had my first job teaching in Droylsden and had obtained my PSV licence to drive a Leyland 1951 PD1 Double Decker from Matlock to Moscow. In order to keep my licence valid I needed to work for a company who would to sign to say I was employed by them.
I loved the variety of work offered by Maynes and the many different old buses and coaches I drove for Football, Morris Dancers, Scouts / Guides, Works, Churches, School, Private Hire, Blackpool, Chester etc. etc.
On 30th December 1966, I was driving the Kershaw Lane route when Maynes swapped it for full control of the 46 Sunnyside route and the Manchester Corporation trolley buses were withdrawn.
I remember driving the C reg AEC Regent 3 on its first day in service (a Sunday) and the old KNA pre selectors and Regent 2s with crash boxes and the lovely swb 7194 H reg ex Oxford Corporation Regent 3 with a synchro box and the Bristol VRs .
I continued to work part time for Maynes until I left Manchester in 1978. It was a very happy time and I only wish I had taken photos of the many rare vehicles I drove