Ushaw Moor Memories

I recommend that you dip into Paul’s memories website and also consider doing an article yourself. Memories help us to understand the past, maybe even a chaotic past, if that is what you have had! It also gives future generations an inkling of what has gone on in the local villages, and that might give them some perspective regarding their own experiences.

I think there is more on the site than is first apparent: there are, for example, some details of many people that were living in Ushaw Moor in the 19th century and early 20th century, children’s experiences of the 1930s and 1940s, details of Ushaw Moor Cricket Club [with reference  to 1881, the 1930s and 1947], notes about prominent local footballers of the 20th century, a report of a 1959 schoolboy soccer cup final [Alan Burns, Dennis Pinkney etc], a mention for Soccer Gleghorn [obligatory!], notes about life at the pit, details of an unexploded second world war bomb and even details of strange behaviour by an inanimate object – a coffin.  If you do decide to dip in don’t forget to read the responses to the various articles, because many of them enrich the original articles.

W Bell