JOAN MITCHELL and children PAULINE and MAURICE.
Carole Greenwood Interview
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Occupants of Victoria Terrace 1953
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FRANK and ALICE FEATHER. Frank was a hairdresser.
DAVID GOMERSALL lived here later.
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FRANK and ELIZABETH HALSTEAD. Brother of ARTHUR.
MR and MRS TAFF and sons ALAN and COLIN.
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MR and MRS BULLOUGH and son IAN.
Later MR and MRS WILLBY, JOAN, PETER and ANDREW.
BROWN family with children JOYCE and SHEILAH, knocked through front to back in 1960s.
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ROLAND BARRACLOUGH’S daughter ROSEMARY.
Followed by ROWLANDS family and EVELYN BANKS.
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ARTHUR and IVOUS HALSTEAD, Carole’s grandparents.
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JOE and ETHYL THORNBURROW with daughter MURIAL.
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RONALD and JESSIE HALSTEAD (1942-1965) with daughters CAROLE and CHRISTINE. Ronald was manager of the Co-op Bakery in Sowerby Bridge.
I was born in 1943 and my grandparents lived on Victoria Terrace for over 50 years. In 1965 we moved to Ivy Houses.
My dad was the manager of the Sowerby Bridge bakery. He made wedding cakes for my friends and for both Christine and my weddings. We got married within six weeks of each other.
My sister had a wonderful soprano voice and I would accompany her at special occasions like Golden Weddings. We both sang in St Mary’s choir and Christine sang with The Halifax Choral Society. She died at 39 of cancer.
The church and school would put on Summer Fairs at which the annual Rose Queen was crowned. The chosen girl would be dressed in white and she was attended by other little girls in white and boys dressed in medieval costume. Christine and Pauline (our neighbour) were both Rose Queens.
There were steps beside Bank Buildings. We didn’t dare go down there as there was a man in the far corner who used to chase us.
I also remember the monkey in a cage up the steps behind Church House off Nathan Lane.