Oldham Historical Research Group

OUR MEMORIES, FAMILY HISTORY & STORIES
Have you got a story to tell or memories from years gone by?

If you have stories from your family history;
memories of work or home, school or leisure; sad or happy happenings;
anything that you can remember and care to share on these pages, we would love to read them.

Your contributions can be long or short; illustrated or not; your own research, your own memories or family stories handed down.

Send them to us at the email address, and mark them for, 'Memories & Stories'
Each will be credited to the author.

(Unfortunately, we must reserve the right to edit contributions or to leave out any that we feel are not appropriate in some way)

Contributor	Title
Sheila Goodyear ...........	A Gartside Sent to Van Diemen's Land - "Man's Inhumanity to Man" LINK
Anne Grimshaw ............	Joseph Travis, Grocer, of Oldham .. LINK
Sheila Goodyear ...........	Wykeham Henry Koba Freame, DCM ... an ANZAC in the family born in 1880 in Osaka, Japan, to an Australian father, and a Japanese mother, shizu Kitagawa. He would become a sailor, marry an english girl, then go on to become a mercencary in Mexicao, a soldier in WW!, a fruit farmer, a spy in WW2 until his murder at the hands of the Japanese, the subject of a biography and, finally, the subject of a chapter in a book about the history of Australian spies. (Link is to my other website ... opens in new page) ... LINK.
Sheila Goodyear ..............	Edward Garside Whitehead and WW1 Enlisted in the Grenadier Guards - Killed in Action 31st July 1917 His story told mainly in transcripts from the book, 'The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1918' by Sir Frederick Ponsonby, and in extracts from the War Diaries. ... LINK
Carol Talbot ............	Mary Higgs ... Student, pioneer, wife and mother, undercover tramp and social reformer LINK
Peter Cannon ..............	Robert William McGuinness Robert William was born in Failsworth and his birth was registered in the second quarter of 1875, in Manchester. His parents were William and Elizabeth McGuinness ... LINK
Irene Beever ...............	The Lady of Coppice - Marjorie Cottam (née Stott) ... LINK
Paul Thomas ..............	The Oldham Joneses: Where there's muck there's brass The Oldham Coal Mining Family ... LINK
Alice Handley ............	An Oldham Family goes to Russia The story comes from Alice Handley, who is the gt.grandaughter of Joseph & Hannah Cottam, and grandaughter of their son, Joseph, who married Alice Raine in 1904. ... LINK
Hilary Hughes ...............	George Henry Hughes ... Hughes Cycle Stores - Agent, Maker & Repairer)... LINK
Jess Wild ..............	Chadderton Ladies Group ... LINK
Janis Zakis ..............	Old Buckley & Prockter Store at Mumps ... LINK
Tom Seville ..............	More Memories of Coldhurst - an 'Open Letter' ... LINK
Norma & Brian Eaton .....	Family stories: Mary Ellen Oliver ... LINK Charlie Eaton - before 1914... LINK Charlie Eaton - the war years ... LINK Clifford Eaton (footballer) ... LINK Sutton & Keary lives ... LINK
Collected together by her daughter, and published by her grandson. ..............	30 chapters from 'Oldham Stories' - The memories of Mary Dickinson, 1906 - 1992 ... LINK
Aelred Taylor ..............	From 'Rivington View' ... LINK
Ray Oliver ..............	The 'Tippler Lavatories' and the terror ... LINK
Ray Oliver ..............	Memories of Clarksfield and the Christmas 1944 bombing & a little more about the V1 and V2 bombs themselves ... LINK
Sheila Goodyear ..............	The Wrigley Head Wesleyan Chapel - Commemorative Plaque written by Flossie Goodyear ... LINK
Sheila Goodyear ..............	The Failsworth Wesleyan Day School written by Flossie Goodyear ... LINK
Sheila Goodyear ..............	*'Falsworth View' - and the Bag of Gold* written by Flossie Goodyear ... LINK