Author	Message / Information
PeterH	The Field, Shipley replied on: 12/5/2006 10:38:46 PM I was born at number 10, which was my grandparent's house. My grandfather, Tom Wheeldon worked at the colliery offices. It seems from recent posts that the cottages were home to several colliery employees/managers. Does anyone know if the entire row was owned by the Shipley Colliery Co. or NCB? I would still be interested to know if the cottages were originally built by the Great Northern Railway for the staff of Marlpool station.
porkpiebaby	The Field, Shipley replied on: 12/4/2006 11:49:17 PM Paul...you used to live opposite me before that! Hope you are well! Mandy
Paul Dilks	The Field, Shipley replied on: 12/4/2006 10:34:14 PM Thanks for the information Loomis,,Regards, Paul
loomis	The Field, Shipley replied on: 12/4/2006 9:38:17 PM In 1961 the house was the home of the N.C.B. East Midlands Division (No. 5 Area) Area Production Manager, Don Davies. The Area General Manager at that time was P.C.(Clifford) Parry, a welshman.
Paul Dilks	The Field, Shipley replied on: 12/4/2006 4:21:58 PM I live at number 12 which was traditionally the under-manager's house for the Shipley Colliery Company..The Coppice house was the colliery general manager's house.
PeterH	The Field, Shipley replied on: 12/31/2005 11:35:46 PM Sorry - I don't know, but given the fairly uncommon name and the locality, it seems highly likely.
suzard Researcher	The Field, Shipley replied on: 12/30/2005 9:26:19 AM Would Bobby Boam (daughter of the cafe/garage owners) be the same Bobby Boam who was head girl at H.G.S. in 1959/60??
PeterH	The Field, Shipley replied on: 12/29/2005 10:36:24 PM I have only recently come across the group and spent an interesting hour or two reading all the earlier posts. I was born on The Field in 1943, in one of the cottages in the row on the same side as the former ambulance station. I believe these cottages were built by the Great Northern Railway for their employees at Marlpool station. Alfred Henshaw's book on the Great Northern in the East Midlands makes this fairly certain but can someone give me absolute confirmation of this, please. A couple of the queries in the earlier posts triggered my memory: I think they were largely answered by later replies but perhaps I can add my five pennorth. The cafe (and the garage, I think) at the bottom of Hardy Barn was run by the Boam family; it was called the Harlequin cafe. Unless my memory fails me, member(s) of that family lived on The Field; one of the daughters was Roberta (known as Bobby). The bus garage at the end of Pit Lane did belong to the Trent company; I seem to remember it had the company name painted in large letters on the roof tiles The Lakeside Business Centre (formerly the Coppice Inn & Restaurant) was originally, I think, a house built for senior colliery management; it was once occupied by the Westwood family, possibly in the 1920's/30's. I look forward to reading more of your interesting memories and, all being well, making my own contrubution from time to time too. PeterH

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