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"WE'ERS THA' LIVE "? CROSS ST.
The Birthday Party at the Big Yard Cross Street Are you on here ? Cos they are still trying to find out who ate all the buns, and who stuck their fingers in the cake, and pinched most of the icing Photo courtesy of Lol Foster's family
This picture on the left was sent along by Peter Smith who writes : My Dad George Smith and his older brother John standing in the doorway of 5 Cross St. My Dad looks to be about 5 years old which would date it at 1925. Both became miners at Silverwood. Both were keen members of the Baggin bowling club and John was club captain for many years. John Died in 2002 and George in 2003. Their elder brother Len who also spent his working life at Silverwood also died in 2002.

Looking down the Big yard in the 1970's,Cross street differed from the neighbouring streets simply by having a common yard. All the other streets having yards shared by two houses only. The house facing are on Doncaster Road. Yes they hung the washing out across the yard despite the vehicle access. On the left are the coalhouses and the outside toilets. Cross Street is the link road between Oldgate Lane and Doncaster Road, Photo courtesy of Lol Foster's family

WHO LIVED WHERE
Please note that prior to the Second World War the actual tenant's of the houses below took in lodgers, from the list below unless stated the actual tenant is not certain in any given period.
ODD NUMBERS	EVEN NUMBERS
3 John Higgins Kathleen Higgins 5 J. Smith 1919 George Smith 1925 John Smith 1925 Len Smith 1925 11 William Thompson 1919 R. Yates 1924 23 George E England 1919 27 John Meakin 1927 31 L. Helliwell ? 1925 33 Thomas Mall ? 1925 35 W H Goodlad 1919 David Corcoran? 1919 37 John Whitley 1919 Robert Whitby 1927	2 Thomas Gurran 1924 4 W. Bingham ? 1919 Sylvia Oliver 6 James C Williams ? 1925 James Williams 1925 Walter Bailey 1926 G H Bailey 1926 10 John Roberts 1920 George Washbrook 1925 12 M. Doyle 1919 James Doyle 1920 Sylvester Doyle 1920 14 John Carlin 1920 16 Frank Butler 1919 Charles Michael King 1928 20 Eli Fellows age 22 December 1924 A. Waldron age 14 May 1925 John Brennan 1926 George Linley ? 1927 22 W Whitehouse 1925 Herbert Whitehouse 1925 24 ? Nelson 1920 George Vernon 1927 28 W. Sanders age 1919 John Sanders 1919 30 William Lister 1919 Frederick Hogarth ? 1924 G. W.Buckley 1924 Thomas Chesterson ? 1924 32 H. Plummer 1919 Foster Family 34 Thomas Richardson 1919 James Bester 36 George Fredrick and Lily Wroe pre 1916 George Frederick Wroe [ son] pre 1916 W. Wroe W 1920 38 David Corcoran 1920 Peter Gannon 1925
UNKNOWN NUMBER
A. Ball age 35 1919 Josiah Rudge ? 1925 George & Dot Oliver, who ended their days in Cross Street. number not known
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