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Visits for Dad at Convalescent Home

Daily Work On the Tanks

MADAM, - Re: the ongoing saga of the tanks, from 1955-1957 I served my Army Service in the REME billeted at Tidworth, and every day I travelled two miles to the tank repair and maintenance workshops at Luggershall. Churchill and Charioteer tanks were scrapped at this time.

Memories of Coliseum

MADAM, - With regards to Jean Ryder's letter of printed in the September 5 issue of All Our Yesterdays about the Coliseum in Burslem. The club song was as follows: "We come along on Saturday morning, greeting everybody with a smile. We come along on Saturday morning, knowing that it's well worth while.

Words to Club's Song

MADAM, - I am sending this on behalf of my mum, Mrs Miriam Potts (nee Bloor). She grew up in Orford Street, Longport, and remembers very well the Saturday Club Song mentioned by Jean Ryder of Burslem. The words are as follows: "We come along on Saturday morning, greeting everybody with a smile.

Royal Welcome Proved a Challenge for Masters

MADAM, - After reading through the excellent articles in All Our Yesterdays, I noticed two in particular - an item on Hanley High School (circa 1958) and another recalling the royal visit to Stoke- on-Trent in November 1955. I have been writing memories of my school life from 1946 to 1958, including the time spent at Hanley High from 1954 and 1958, and enclose a short section about our school's visit to the Victoria Ground on that memorable day - an exercise in logistics that must have struck...

Friend From My Teenage Years

Card My Grandad Found On Battlefield

MADAM, - My grandad, William "Bill" Lane, found a postcard on the battlefield in 1914. I've enclosed copies of the front and the back of the card and I can make everything out, except the street address.

In Company of Floods and a Sleepwalker

MADAM - I was both pleased and surprised to find myself in the photo of the 1947 8th Company boys brigade camp at Penmaenmawr in All Our Yesterdays on Saturday, August 29. I was the small boy on the right side of the back row.

We'll Meet Again

POTTERY MEMORIES: The British Ceramics Biennial is looking for people to recount their memories of the pottery industry as part of the first of three festivals showcasing ceramics in Stoke-on-Trent. For example, we'd like to hear from anyone who worked as a saggar maker's bottom-knocker or who was involved in unloading the kilns at Gladstone? The event will showcase ceramics and Stoke-on-Trent to the world and we want to hear people's memories. It's the people of Stokeon-Trent who bring the t...

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The Memor Y ; Triggered by an Open Day at the Former Chatterley Whitfield Colliery. By John Abberley

THEY gave us genuine miner's helmets and safety lamps and down we went, my young son and I, into the depths of the Winstanley shaft. When we got out of the cage at the pit bottom, we could just see a small patch of daylight 700ft above us. It was a thrilling start to our tour of the first underground mining museum in Britain.

'We Got Water by Yoke, From a Well or the Sky' ; Margaret Wright, a 77-Year-Old Retired Bookkeeper From Wallis Way, Baddeley Green, Who Was the Last of 12 Children Born to a Bentilee Colliery Worker and His Wife, Tells Alan Cookman How She Fell in Love with Life On the Farm During an Austere Childhood in the 1930s

LIVING conditions at No 5 Bentilee were basic to say the least. "It was very primitive," says Margaret Wright, now a great- grandmother, who lived there from her birth in 1931 until 1938. "We had no electricity, gas or water," she says. "Candles and paraffin lamps were used for lighting, and drinking water was carried in buckets on a yoke from one of the houses on Ubberley Road."

Wins Pounds 500

WE'RE again giving away five sets of Pounds 100 shopping vouchers for the best reader memories. Any nostalgia is welcome, from people of any age and on any topic. From now until January 2, you can share your reflections by emailing colette.warbrook@thesentinel.co.uk or by sending your stories, marked Remember When, to Colette Warbrook, Features Desk, The Sentinel, Forge Lane, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5SS.

Day We Picked Up Jackie in Our Ambulance ; Above, Malcolm's Signed Picture of Jackie Trent and, Below, Jackie in Performance.

MADAM, - Re: Memories of Jackie Trent (Yvonne Burgess). I was an ambulance driver employed by Staffordshire County Council and stationed in Kidsgrove.

Names From My Days at John Knox

MADAM, - With reference to a letter printed on Saturday August 15. I worked at John Knox/Jaynox from 1966 to 1977. I was employed in the sales office and my bosses were Hilda Delves and Pam Rawlins. Some names I can remember are Anita Harrington, Carol Smith, Denise Deakin, Billy Gilroy, Eric Grundy, Billy Whitehouse, Stuart Rushton, Mr Boon, Mr Sage, Dougie Burslem. And the warehouse workers were Sandra, Pauline, Winnie, Vera - sorry, I can't remember the surnames.

Staff Were Mar Vellous

MADAM, - I was in Stanfields Hospital when I was 30 at the end of the Second World War, and I was in Loggerheads when I was 34. I was in bed outside and when we put salt and pepper on our dinners, it blew on the next bed when it was windy. The doctors and staff were absolutely marvellous. I had my lung cauterised and visited the chest clinic until they said I was cured. I spent eight-and-ahalf months in Loggerheads but it was worth it. I am now in my 95th year. I remember a Dr Smith. He was a...

Cold but Happy Times at the Sanitorium

MADAM, - Re: the Cheshire Joint Sanatorium at Loggerheads, pictured above. I have some great memories of my time there. I was in Block 4 between 1946-1947 and it was very cold. The walks were lovely when we were on the grades and the bluebells were lovely. It is nice to remember these things. Sometimes we were able to go to a shop in the lane, which was out of bounds. I do not know if you have the 1981 book At Loggerheads with the Enemy, but it has a lot of photos of the patients, doctors, nu...