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was pleased to find the archive site. I had been in touch with the old Heritage Centre to ask about any information they might have about my birth place, 11 Bantam Grove, near the Bantam Mill (23 in the list), where I was born in 1940. I remember my surprise when I took my family back to see it and discovered it had totally disappeared under the new estates built over the area where I had roamed as a growing child. There was little or no chance to retrace my steps. I had tried to recall my memories of it but things were a bit vague as I was about 10 when we move to the new council house on Wide Lane. My father was Alf Trobridge and he had fantastic recall and a wish to write about his life in Leeds and Morley. Some of his writings are in the Library at Leeds and I know he had contact with the Heritage centre. I don’t know if you have come across him. My brother was sorting through the papers which my father left when he died in 2007 and he found that he had written down his memories of the house and the land around it. Cameras were rare back then, but maybe people were not bombarded with information and did not have digital memories so they remembered more. Thanks for the work you are doing – knowledge is hard to find and easy to lose. Can you let me know how to support what you are doing?
Does anyone recall Cross Hunt Street in the Netherthorpe district? My Granmother Gladys Hacket lived there as did my Mother Joan (Simmonite)