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Born and bred in Zoar Street I was educated at Peel Street Schools (nursery, Infants and Boys – we were segregated after ‘Infants’) then Morley Grammar School between 1963 -70 where I was Head Boy in 1969. I went to work in London in late 1970 but was always pleased to return to my roots remembering many happy times at Morley Low watching the steam trains (especially the ‘double-header travelling from Liverpool to Leeds on a Saturday evening). Crank Mill on Station Road (owned by Kirk & Steel – no relation) was always of interest due to its age and disjointed appearance with some ‘interesting’ characters taking the air in the doorways. Both Mother and Father worked in the co-op; Mother during the war and Father pre-war before he was called up and went to serve in the Army touring India, Burma and Ceylon. He was shipped out with a co-op colleague, Hubert Waring who unfortunately died at the fall of Singapore – Father’s ship luckily being diverted. Both men are reported in the Morley Observer at the time as being ‘missing’ then a record of Father being ‘mentioned in Despatches’. I remember returning from a holiday in Bridlington, driving up Wide Lane and wondering why the top of the Town Hall was flat – only to learn that it had been destroyed by fire in our absence. Living in Morley with so many mills, it was inevitable that family members were employed in the wool trade. My Grandfather was ‘horseman’ at Wilson & Swallows in Ackroyd Street and I have a photograph of him with a team of horses and cart, done up for some special occasion. An uncle followed him into W&S as a cloth drawer. Lots of memories come back of times such as the visit of the Queen in 1954 (can only have been 2 1/2 at the time – quite something to be presented to her many years later); having an account at the Yorkshire Penny Bank; sampling the future technical delights of STD telephones at the ‘old’ post office which used to be opposite the Yorkshire Bank; drooling over the latest Dinky Toy releases in ‘Dinky’ Dyson’s shop at the end of Little Lane; photographing the building of this new fangled M62 thing that carved through the rhubarb triangle; and so on. As a retired Civil Servant now returned from exile to Yorkshire, thank you for stimulating some of the very happy memories of a proud town.
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In Den Helder, Netherlands we are restoring a former steam/sailing gunboat of the Netherlands Navy the “Bonaire”. She was launched in 1927. Her iron or steel deckbeams were made by Hopkins & Co, Middlesbro. The characters are rolled in relief on the beams. If you are interested I can send you some photos.
Do you know some facts about the Hopkins plant?
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