Thursday, 24 March 2011

Pictures Of Tidworth

Silkstone Waggonway.
Image via Wikipedia


If any of you do manage to find anything when rummaging through your files, please leave a message in the comments area at the bottom of this item. I will then get back to you with an address to which you can send them.

Same applies please to any memories, thoughts, lists of names of people you worked with, names of those you might wish to contact again.

I look forward to hearing from you, regardless of which medical unit you were a part of in the Tidworth area.

Best wishes to all,

Peter
  As I have written before, I don't have any pictures from my days in Tidworth-middle to late 60's, and am having trouble finding any at this time. Rather hoping that some of you would be able to come up with something. Thanks to John Silkstone for his picture. By the way John, came across the above picture-anything to do with your family??
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  1. John A Silkstone24 March 2011 at 22:21

    The town of Silkstone is just west of Barnsley in Yorkshire. The coal mine once belonged to one of my great-grand fathers, a black sheep of the family. It is believed that there was a fire in the pit. At that time there was a great storm and the water via a freak accident got into the mine and distinguished the fire. It wasn’t long after that, that a piece of land was purchased and called Silkstone common and presented to the village. There has always been a question mark over how the rain water found its way into the pit. But then again in 1838 the deaths of 26 children between the ages of 7 and 17 wasn’t of much concern to the pit or mill owners of the day.

    John A Silkstone

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