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Steeples Buses

Posted in History, People, Transport on Thursday March 10, 2016| 1 Comment »

We have received this request for information about Steeples bus service:

I am currently writing a history of Derbyshire’s independent bus operators in the days before deregulation and one of the 20+ operators which will be covered is Steeples of Parwich. I’m sure that many of your readers will remember this firm which ceased to trade in November 1967.
I already have information on the “technical” side (such as the vehicles used and the licences held) but have been able to discover remarkably little about Mr RH Steeples himself. I wonder if I might appeal to your readers for some biographical information about the proprietor and his immediate family? Anecdotes and personal reminiscences about the bus services would also be welcome, although I am unable to use longer stories as I have more than 20 operators to fit into my allocated 160 pages!
Those who provide assistance will receive a free copy of the book, which will have around 200 illustrations, 35 of them in colour, and will also include other companies once familiar in Ashbourne such as Allen of Roston, Carter of Hales Green, and Webster of Hognaston. The book is due to be published by Ventuire of Glossop later this year and will be priced at around £19.
I hope that your readers can help me to do justice to the memory of this small but vital bus company – please feel free to pass my email address on to anyone who might be interested in helping.
Best Wishes,
Neville Mercer
neville.mercer@googlemail.com

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History Society AGM – Tonight

Posted in History, Societies on Thursday February 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Parwich & District Local History Society

AGM

Thursday  25 February 2016

Parwich Memorial Hall

7.30 pm

All welcome.

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Quiz Night

Posted in Events, History on Friday February 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Quiz Poster

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Historic Moment

Posted in History, Photography on Saturday August 29, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Thank you to Darwin for allowing us to share his photo of the last flying Vulcan, which was seen in our skies this teatime. This is the last year the plane will fly, so those that saw it were very lucky.

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Photo taken from Longcliffe.

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Tudor Farming Day

Posted in Events, Farming, History on Monday June 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Gadzooks! It’s the Great Tudor Farming Day!

Families are invited to journey back in time to experience a day during the reign of Henry VIII at the Great Tudor Faming Day, in the Dove Valley, on Sunday July 5.

The event runs from 12pm until 4pm at the Dove Valley Environmental Centre, Under Whitle Farm, at Sheen near Longnor. The event is paid for by donations.

Peak District National Park ranger Lynn Burrow, one of the organisers, said: “If you fancy yourself as a bit of a Henry, or perhaps a beautiful Anne Boleyn, come and join us in 1537. You will meet the Horobyn family and share the everyday lives of these good country folk.”

Children can dress in Tudor outfits and have a go at 16th century crafts including spinning, weaving, cooking, and reed light making. They can join in with farming, hedging, and ploughing.

Families can watch a play, meet a Tudor quack (doctor), learn a traditional Tudor dance, write with a quill or take a tour of Tudor landscape and wildlife. There is also chance for people to discover how to research their own local history.

The event is coordinated by Elspeth Walker of the Dove Valley Environmental Centre and run mainly by volunteers.

People should bring a packed lunch (drinks will be available) and wear clothing suitable for a day outdoors. Wellies will be needed if it has rained the night before to avoid getting wet legs from long grass.

The postcode for the Dove Valley Centre is SK7 0PR, or ordnance survey map reference SK107 635 (near Sheen).

More information is available from 01298 84992 or 01298 83282, or by visiting www.peakdistrict.gov.uk or http://www.dovevalleycentre.co.uk

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Plan Your Costumes

Posted in Events, History, Pub on Thursday April 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Sycamore Celebrates VE Day

Posted in Events, History, Pub on Friday April 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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History Society AGM on Thursday

Posted in History, Societies on Wednesday February 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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History Society AGM

Posted in History, Societies on Saturday February 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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History Society Quiz – Photo Round

Posted in History, Pub, Quiz, Societies on Monday January 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »

For those who missed the Quiz on Saturday evening, who want a go at the Local Photograph Round, click on the image below to access the photographs as a pdf. To see the answers click on “Continue reading” at the bottom:

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NB This is a large file so it may take a minute or so to down load.
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Quiz on Saturday

Posted in History, Pub, Quiz on Friday January 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Quiz on Saturday

Posted in History, Pub, Quiz, Societies on Tuesday January 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Local History Society Publications

Posted in Classified adverts, History, Photography, Societies on Monday January 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Although stock is limited, some Parwich & District Local History Society publications are still available:

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“Voices: Women of a White Peak Village” by Gillian Radcliffe

  • £5 per copy.
  • only limited stock available.
  • A collection of photographs and memories, recording life in Parwich over the last 100+ years.

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Pub Quiz

Posted in History, Pub, Quiz on Friday January 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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The low sun highlights history

Posted in Ballidon, Environment, History, Photography on Sunday January 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Above, looking across the ridge and furrow of one of the Ballidon medieval open fields, towards one of Bradbourne’s medieval open fields close in to the village, and another up on Haven Hill. Below, the plough lines on the Parwich open field, the Wings, contrast the medieval elongated ‘s’ shaped ridge and furrow to the left with the dead straight ‘modern’ ridge and furrow created by steam ploughing. Photos by David G.
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History Society Bookshop

Posted in Classified adverts, History, Photography, Societies on Sunday December 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Looking for Christmas presents, well some Parwich & District Local History Society publications are still available:

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“Voices: Women of a White Peak Village” by Gillian Radcliffe

  • £5 per copy.
  • only limited stock available.
  • A collection of photographs and memories, recording life in Parwich over the last 100+ years.

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“A Parwich Walk” by Patti Beasley and Peter Trewhitt

  • £2 per copy.
  • only limited stock available.
  • A history of Parwich set out as an illustrated walk through the Village.

Reproduction post cards of old Parwich scenes

  • 20p per individual card.
  • £1 per set of 8 different cards
  • 8 different scenes reprinted from Edwardian images of the Village and village life.
  • illustrated below:

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Memorial Hall Christmas Fayre

Posted in Arts, Crafts, History, Memorial hall on Wednesday November 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Also Ashbourne’s Flower Café are opening a Pop up Café at the Memorial Hall during … …

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Tickets available from Cheryl Woolley or at the door on the night. Also, if anybody wants to donate a raffle prize, they would be gratefully received.

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Don’t miss out!

Posted in Arts, Crafts, Events, History, Memorial hall on Saturday November 22, 2014| 1 Comment »

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Tickets available from Cheryl Woolley or at the door on the night. Also, if anybody wants to donate a raffle prize, they would be gratefully received.

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Talk on local Lead Mining

Posted in History, Out & About on Tuesday November 4, 2014| 1 Comment »

Thank you to Bradbourne Local History Group for the following information:

Jean Castledine who runs the local history group has arranged for John Jones to talk about

Lead Mining & Lead Miners in Derbyshire

and in particular in the local area. The talk will be held on

Thursday 6 November 2014 at 8pm

in the Bradbourne Church Hall, entrance fee will be £3 (including refreshments) and all are most welcome, so do please spread the word.

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Local History Talk in Bradbourne

Posted in History, Out & About on Sunday October 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Thank you to Bradbourne Local History Group for the following information:

Jean Castledine who runs the local history group has arranged for John Jones to talk about

Lead Mining & Lead Miners in Derbyshire

and in particular in the local area. The talk will be held on

Thursday 6 November 2014 at 8pm

in the Bradbourne Church Hall, entrance fee will be £3 (including refreshments) and all are most welcome, so do please spread the word.

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Medieval Parwich Land Grant on eBay

Posted in History on Tuesday October 14, 2014| 2 Comments »

Our readers might be interested to see this Medieval land grant, spotted by Fiona, for sale on eBay:

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Described as:

Parwich, Derbyshire. A 1332 Grant of Land at “Perwyche” [Parwich].

A lovely early vellum grant by John, son of John of Sutton to John le Herdemon of Perwyche for “one half ferling” of land and meadow in Perwyche from that ferling which Lord Roger, son of Ralph of Perwyche, the Chaplain once held in the village. Robert de la Dale of Perwyche is noted within text as being a witness. In Latin, 9 lines of text, dated Sunday 5th January 1332. With single vellum tag below, without seal. Ref: ARA

Approx. 260x80mm., minor soiling, though overall in an excellent state of preservation.

Click here to see the eBay entry.

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Classic Car Meet on Sunday

Posted in History, Pub, Transport on Saturday August 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

There is a Classic Car Meet at the Sycamore Inn, Parwich, this Sunday 31st of August, from 12.30pm.

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Wayne Family History

Posted in Church, History, People on Saturday August 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

A descendant of a nineteenth century Parwich Vicar, is researching his family history and requests any information on the Rev William Henry Wayne:

A family researcher asks: Does anyone know anything about W.H. Wayne, vicar at Parwich church 1833-37? How was he related to the local Wayne families?

RW

If you have any information please add a comment below or email parwich@hotmail.co.uk (we will forward any messages to RW).

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Parwich Commemorates ‘Lights Out’

Posted in British Legion, Church, Events, History on Wednesday August 6, 2014| 1 Comment »

Parwich commemorated the centenary of the start of World War I, perhaps the darkest four years of the twentieth century, with an exhibition, a talk and a moving service at the War Memorial.

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Some 80 Parwich men served in the Arm Forces during WWI, the Exhibition included details and photographs of some of those that the History Society and Parwich Legion have managed to identify from local knowledge and newspapers of the time. More need to identified, so if you know of anyone who served, have any stories or have photographs do get in touch.

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Lights Out – TONIGHT

Posted in British Legion, Church, Events, History, Memorial hall, People on Monday August 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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TOMORROW (Monday 4th August) – Parwich Remembers

Posted in British Legion, Church, Events, History on Sunday August 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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WW1 Shrovetide

Posted in History on Thursday July 31, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Thank you to Cheryl W for sending us this piece from the ANT. Does anyone know anything about Cpl J H Robinson? If you have any knowledge of those who volunteered or enlisted, or any stories you have had passed down in your family about life during the WWI period, we should love to hear about it. Don’t forget the talk on Monday evening when Parwich will start it’s work on the WWI in Parwich project.

MEMBERS of the Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Committee have taken a ball back to a village in France where it was used to play the game during the First World War.
The 1916 ball was taken back to the spot in Sus St Leger, where the match was played, by members of the Sherwood Foresters Regiment.
It was part of a research trip as the game’s organising committee gathers pictures and information ready for a commemoration in 2016.
Members are planning to commission a painting of the game played against the backdrop of the buildings that remain in the village, which was largely untouched during the war.
A limited run of 300 Royal Doulton figurines depicting the soldiers kicking the ball will also be produced.
Committee chairman Brell Ewart and secretary Mick Betteridge, along with an interpreter and a driver, met the village’s Mayor, Marc Dufour, and elder statesman Charles Gavory for a walk through the streets.
Mr Ewart said: “This visit has been a number of months in the planning.
“There are very few records of the game and, with the committee planning to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the game in 2016, a visit was essential in order to establish links and gather information.
“One of the principal reasons for the visit was to photograph the village to produce an accurate backdrop for the oil painting.
“We knew the game was played in Sus St Leger, as this is recorded on the ball goaled by Cpl J H Robinson, of Parwich. We also knew that men from Ashbourne in the Sherwood Foresters were billeted there at Shrovetide in 1916.”
The game was played in snow and Lt Colonel Goodman arranged for two companies to play as Up’Ards and two more as Down’Ards.
Mr Ewart added: “The 2016 anniversary is very special.
“Sending a ball to France in 1916 for the game to be played by men from the town is probably one of the most prominent actions ever taken by a Shrovetide committee.”

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Monday 4th August – Parwich Remembers

Posted in British Legion, Church, Events, History on Wednesday July 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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Lights Out – Monday 4th August

Posted in British Legion, Church, Events, History, Memorial hall, People on Sunday July 27, 2014| 2 Comments »

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Lights Out – Monday 4th August

Posted in British Legion, Church, Events, History, Memorial hall, People on Wednesday July 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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Talk on the Duffield Frith

Posted in History on Sunday June 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »

We have received the following notice from the  Bradbourne Local History Group:

The Duffield Frith was, in medieval times, an area of Royal Forest which extended from Duffield to Wirksworth and from Hulland to Heage. It was bestowed upon Henry de Ferrers by King William and controlled from his seat at Duffield Castle.

The Talk will given by Sue Woore and held on July 9th at 7.30pm Bradbourne Church Hall, entrance fee will be £3 (including refreshments) and all are most welcome

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Sale of Parish Council Land in the Square

Posted in Environment, Gardens, History, Local government, Parish Council on Monday May 12, 2014| 28 Comments »

This post has been created at the request of a reader who was concerned the Parish Council land making up part of The Square off Pump Hill in the centre of Parwich village is to be sold without any public consultation. At the March Parwich Parish Council meeting Item 14 “it was agreed to sell Pump Hill back to the previous owner for the sum of £1“. (This “previous owner” is not named in the minutes, but it is presumed this reference in the minutes is an error as the previous owners have no current connection to the village, see below.) The minutes make no mention of any conditions as to the future use of this land being specified as part of the sale.

This land, in front of Parwich Hall, was originally part of the Parwich Estate. Some time around the 1820s it was made into allotments for use by villagers. The 1843 Tithe Map refers to it as ‘gardens’. The estate was bought by Sir John Crompton-Inglefield in the 1930s. After World War II the allotments went out of use, and Lady Crompton-Inglefield had trees planted here to hide the separately owned garden at the south end of the land, in front of the former Shop, which was then being used to cure deer hides amongst other things.

After the sale of the bulk of the Parwich Estate in the 1970s, this land remained in the hands of Sir John’s heirs, one suspects on the speculation that restrictions on building here might someday be removed. Over a number of years Dorothy L gardened this land on a voluntary basis, and created a very attractive woodland garden, much enhancing this part of the village.

When it came up for auction in the early 2000s, the Village Action Group raised buying it with the then Parish Council. There was strong local support for protecting this land in the heart of the village against any future development. In the light of this a number of potential buyers agreed not to bid at the auction and the land was purchased by the Parish Council.

A number of options then were considered for this land, but local opinion was strongly in favour of Dorothy continuing to garden it for as long as she wished. She has now left the village.

What are your views on the future of this land?

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Full Steam Ahead!

Posted in Events, History on Monday April 14, 2014| 1 Comment »

Two of Derbyshire’s steam beam engines are being opened to the public for the first-time this year.

Middleton Top engine house and Leawood Pump steam beam engine are being opened on the Easter weekend of Sunday 20 April and Monday 21 April.

Middleton Top engine house based on the High Peak Trail is the world’s oldest original working rotative beam engine and will be operating from noon until around 5pm. And the nearby Leawood Pump steam beam engine on the Cromford Canal will also be operating from 12pm until about 5pm.

Admission to Middleton Top engine house is £2.70 and £1.30 for concessions and entry to Leawood Pump House is free.

Visitor centres at High Peak Junction and Middleton Top will also be open seven days a week from Easter until September, where visitors can find out more about heritage and wildlife and what to see and do. Attractions include an audio tour at High Peak Junction workshops visitor centre, bringing the history of Cromford Canal and one of the oldest surviving railway workshops alive. There is a £2.70 charge for the tour (Concessions £1.30). Or why not hire a bike from Middleton Top and follow the path taken by the railway wagons until 1967 down the high peak trail towards Hopton tunnel & beyond?

The centres also provide information, maps, books and light refreshments.

For more information call 08456 058 058 or visit www.derbyshire.gov.uk/countryside (opens in a new window)

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Archeology Talk in Bradbourne

Posted in History, Out & About on Wednesday March 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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Only just outside our area, Prof John Moreland is always worth listening to:
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Wigber Barrow and Bradbourne Cross

Posted in History, Out & About on Saturday March 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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Another trip down memory lane…

Posted in History, Photography on Thursday March 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Following on from last week’s Memory Lane the Ashbourne News Telegraph again features historic photographs of Parwich. The photographs featured this week include one looking over the village to Lenscliffe – Parwich Hall can be seen poking through the trees, a view of Parwich school and the final photo is of a snowy scene.

You can read the full article on the Ashbourne News Telegraph website.

If you have any good memories or photographs you would like to share please let us know.

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Parwich – a trip down memory lane

Posted in History, Photography on Monday March 3, 2014| 1 Comment »

The Ashbourne News Telegraph featured a great historic piece on Parwich. The feature includes a collection of photos taken by Vernon Webster, an Ashbourne News Telegraph reader from Chellaston whose wife – formerly Brenda Brownlee – used to live in Parwich. The article describes Parwich as having “one of the strongest feelings of community spirit of any location in the Derbyshire Dales” – three cheers to that!

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WW1 Anniversary Project

Posted in History on Monday February 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Parwich and District History Society is keen to undertake a project about Parwich in the period of the First World War. We are hoping that this will be a community project with as many people involved as possible. We are also hoping to link in with other groups in the village which are interested in a particular aspect. Maybe other groups might want to pick up an idea to work on or maybe individuals would like to be involved in some of the ideas we have thought about.

  • The two main areas of work are firstly to speak to elderly people in the village to find out what stories they may have heard about Parwich during the war years. Not just about those who went to war but also about those left behind. Maybe they have some items of memorabilia from the period and possibly photographs?
  • The second area of work is to read the local papers from the period and pick up all references to Parwich. This can be done at Ashbourne Library where the Ashbourne News is on microfilm. This isn’t particularly easy to read and the History Society is contemplating trips to Swadlincote where original newspapers can be accessed. This is going to be labour intensive so as many volunteers as readers would be welcome and we could car share.

We have come up with a list of possible areas for inclusion in the project. This is by no means prescriptive nor exhaustive. All ideas are welcome! These are our thoughts:

  • The Rathbone Convalescent Home – what role did it play?
  • Farms –how many horses went, what were the reserved occupations on the farms?
  • Were there other reserved occupations?
  • School- records – can they shed light on life for the children in this period?
  • Were people knitting and organising local collections for the war effort?
  • What celebrations were there at the end?
  • Erection of war memorial – who isn’t on it? What % is this is the total?
  • What was the impact of deaths on the community, especially if all at the same time (most seem to have been in same regiment)?
  • Who came back?
  • Those that came back – how did they adapt?
  • Food – did diets change, were there restrictions?
  • Fashion – any implications?
  • Who did the jobs of those who went?
  • Did they sign up or were they conscripted?

If you have any thoughts about the project, would like to be involved or your group/society are planning to commemorate WW1, please either make a comment or contact Fiona on 191, Peter T on 287 or Ian P on 362.

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Congratulations to Alan Wood for receiving the Arctic Star

Posted in History, News, People on Wednesday February 19, 2014| 2 Comments »

Alan Wood with the Arctic Star

Alan Wood is awarded the Arctic Star

Massive congratulations to Alan Wood who after nearly 70 years has now received the Arctic Star to acknowledge the vital role he, and many like him, played in World War Two.

The medal is awarded for any length of service above the Arctic Circle by members of the British armed forces and the merchant navy. Alan served in the merchant navy during World War Two on board the S.S. Fort Yukon in the Arctic convoys to Murmansk, Russia.

The Ashbourne News Telegraph included a quote from Alan:

I was only 17 when I joined the merchant navy in 1944. I spent three months on a training course for Lifeboat and Seamanship on the T.S. Vindicatrix, in Sharpness, Gloucestershire.

After this I joined the S.S. Demeatation in Grangemouth on the Forth, and we proceeded to London to take troops and supplies to the Normandy beaches.

On the second trip to the beaches, the ship was damaged by an inland shore battery with a number of casualties. We returned to North Shields for repairs.

The next ship I was on was the S.S. Fort Yukon, which was loaded with supplies bound for Murmansk, Russia. We went from Manchester up the Clyde, where we met with other vessels and formed a convoy.

I can tell you it was bitterly cold in the Arctic Circle, but I wasn’t frightened by it, I didn’t really feel it. After discharging the cargo in Murmansk we loaded the ship with phosphate bound for London.

Whilst we were sheltering in the north of Scotland overnight we heard that peace had been declared. My next trip as on the S.S. Llandaff, which went empty from Newport, Wales to Philadelphia to fetch supplies for American forces in the Pacific, but then the atomic bomb was dropped and the Japanese surrendered. So we boarded coal in Philadelphia for northern Norway instead.

I’m delighted to have been given this medal, but it’s a shame it took so long because many of my colleagues and friends who were also involved have long since died.”

 

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History Society Reminder

Posted in Events, History, Societies on Thursday February 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Parwich & District Local History Society

AGM

 

7.30pm Thursday 13th Fenruary
in the Meeting Room
Parwich Memorial Hall

All welcome, discussion will include possible plans for marking the 100th anniversary of WWI.

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