Childhood

Childhood

Sunshine Corner

Gill Adams recalls the 1960’s Tideswell youth club called Sunshine Corner and going for Barber’s chips afterwards.

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Childhood

School, Wakes and Go-Cart Races

Kathryn and Paul Black talk about school involvement in Wakes Week during the early 1980s. “Did the school ever do anything towards Wakes? Just before

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Childhood

Car Number Plates

Mary Landon recalls the childhood excitement of waiting for a car to drive through Tideswell so she could take down its number. She’d be busy

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Childhood

Tideswell!

Millie Robinson reads her poem about Tideswell which was one of the winners of the 2013 Tideswell Tales poetry competition. The contest was to find

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Growing up in Tideswell

Late for school Tideswell was home to many evacuees in the Second World War and we have collected quite a few stories so far.  It wasn’t always

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Childhood

Growing up in Litton

Not all childhood stories though are about the good times, here is Terry Yates recalling one of his memories of the second world war: [soundcloud

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