General Chat

Aye Col ...

Like i say my father and most of his family used to get in the 'Hole in the wall' .. It was getting them out of it that was the problem. lol.

Andy

My old sparring partner george Riley used to get
in the Hole in the wall

colin

Hey JJ ....

Yeh i remember the Old Slipper... lol..

That place was my usual place to go and drink when i was 15 ... lol.

Andy

Blimey Col ..

Not heard of the blood tub for many a year. My father was a regular in there.. together with the 'Hole in the Wall' .. and no i dont mean a cashpoint.. lol.
I used to sit in the little anti room of the blood tub whilst my dad would pass me a vimto thru with a packet of crisps ... lol.
My grandmother and aunties were permanant fixtures of the 'hole in the wall'..though i used to be made to sit outside that place.. up the sidealley.

eee by gum ..them wert days.. lol.

Andy

It didnt need a wink in the blood tub or the
6 bells and we wont mention the comet
and capsi and ticker
Used to get lively at Morris's dances

cofessions of a miss- spent youth especially
when cowleys or robert.s from by the mytton
came in

lovexxx
colin F

shrewsbury families pretty well all knew each other
or were on nodding terms--thats the old families

colin F

Hi Sarah Ann Cooke and John Griffiths married in1861 Q4(and according to igi 7/11/1861 Ellesmere district.
Her 2nd husband was John Bullock(1880)
3rd husband Edward Blake.

She is the sister of my direct rellie.

Star

Hi all,dose anyone know of an easy to use parish records site for Prees Shropshire ?

JJ the Chatterbox one of my Cooke,s Sarah Ann married 3x her first was a John Griffiths.

Star

HI Roger....Not that I know of Sorry. :o)

lol blimey JJ ...

I used to knock around there in my younger days ..

Used to go to the fair on that little bit of waste land that was across the road from the seven stars, Used to drink in the stars often too.. ... used to work in Jack Merediths Motorcycle shop.. next door..
When i left the regulars i joined the TA and was stationed at 5LI in Coleham, Before moving up to the Barracks.

One of my sisters lives up in Meole Brace....

Well . . some memories came flooding back there.. lol

theres a couple of surnames i know

Rogers and Frenchlived near the comet

as did ryans and jarvis capsie Davies the rocks

and i could fill the site

have a good day folkes

colin F

Aye JJ ...

Thats the one .. Knew it was something like that..

Yes it was on Bellvue Road.. . .well on one of the side roads if my memory serves me right .. on the road that took you around to the scrapyard?

Andy

hI Jacqueline,

That name certainly rings a few bells for me..

Are you definate it was called Bestford or might it have been Beresford? and was it in Shrewsbury?

Andy

Jules
Your Roger's & Love's are they anything to do with the Frenche's

Roger

do any body now a bestford house children home my dad was put in there in 1945

Colin only got back as far as early 1800/late 1700,s on my Cooke family were at Ellesmere then. One owned a drapers shop there until early 1940,s i believe it was in the family.

Interesting thread

Star

theres a lot of people out there--who--if on
this site- i are sure have names familiar to us all
after all we all go back to Noah--- and this
country has really only become wideley
populated in past 100 yrs or so

colin F

Hi ya

Thought it would be ok to add my Salopians.

Bennett, Martin, Meyrick (Merrick). Abrahams, Meredith, Brown.

Thanks for the thread Colin!



Kaz :o)))

Cooke--how farr back star
ive a cooke married to a smallman 1500s
some time

colin F