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Photo courtesy of Jonathan Dabs My memory of Whinney Hill is walking down to have my hair cut at Lindsey's hairdressers which was in the group of shops on the left hand side.

I also have a memory of sliding down the whole way one winter, as a passenger in the back of a works van. Luckily we did not meet any vehicles trying to get up the hill, though as we neared the bottom a bus turned from Doncaster road, saw us and stopped, which was just as well as we were on the wrong side of the road at that stage.

The driver managed to regain complete control near the bottom and we came to a halt facing the shops on the left, just avoiding sideswiping the bus. To the drivers credit [ Joe Butcher ] he kept calm all the way down, which is more than his passengers did I can tell you.

Harold Barber tells us that the rows of colliery houses on one side of Oldgate Lane were in blocks of 11 dwellings and back in the 1930s were referred to as Whinney Hill, whereas the house on the left of the photo above which were non colliery houses were referred to as Oldgate Lane.
All the pit houses were 'Whinney Hill'. Non- pit houses opposite were 'Old Gate Lane' in those days)
The houses on the left being built right on the boundary of Dalton. The boundary continued up to Fosters shop, dropped away from the road slightly, continued then along the Hilly fields along Hollings Lane and up to Silverwood. Fosters shop was actually in both the parishes of Dalton and Thrybergh, as you walked through the shop you would be crossing the boundary.

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

Please note that even numbers were actually within the Dalton boundary

1
G. C. Draper 1925
3
Harold Robinson 1927
James Muleaney ? 1927
5
Patrick Collins 1927
7
J. Mountford 1919
J. Manley ? 1924
9
W. Pepper 1919
11
James Ensor 1919

F. Gakley 1920

Joseph E. Ackell 1928
13
Thomas Windle 1927
15
J? T Booth 1924
J. T. Booth 1925
James Mcguiness 1928
19
John Hanley 1925
Samuel Williams 1925
Glyn Williams 1925
Thomas Williams 1926
Rufus J Williams 1926
21
M. Larkin 1919
Frank Ward 1927
23
Thomas Haddigan 1924
W. Slater 1925
Thomas Haddigan 1925
Herbert Slater 1927
25
Richard Carney ? 1924
27
Leonard Curtis 1920

Ernest Stacey 1927
Arthur Collins 1928
Mary Moores of 27
29
E. Dowley ? 1919
31
Herbert Guest 1925
Clarence Guest 1927
33
George Humpherson Pre 1915
Mrs. Alice Burgin (formerly Humpherson)

W H Nixon 1919
Roy Nixon 1940's
35
William and Annie Ellison 1917
William Arthur Ellison pre 1917

Joseph Day 1919

Daniel Ellison 1919
37
Ernest Finch 1925
39
Walter Garratt 1919

H. Birden [ Burden ? ] 1919
47
A. Brooks 1919
Frederick W. E. Kelly 1927
53
Richard Brown 1919
Samuel Halsall ? 1924
John Henry Hodgson 1927
55
Haith Thomas 1920

Police Constable (Bobby) Calvert Mrs. Calvert and children

Gordon and Marjorie (Madge) 1930s
57
Mr & Mrs Walker + Harry McClements (Harry was killed in the early days of the war) 1930s
59
Alfred Bailey 1919
Mr Bailey

daughters Annis and Kate + grandchildren Alfred, Lewis, Len & Betty 1930s
61
G. Hague ? age 47 August 1919
Mr & Mrs Kay

lodgers Georgina Higgins & daughter Iris.

Also Mr & Mrs Walter Smith 1930s
63
Mr & Mrs Fred Heathcote 1930s
65
H. Key ? age 54 August 1919
Mrs Jowett 1930s
67
Mr & Mrs Morte

family Douglas, John, Olive and Gertrude (possibly 2 further children) 1930s
69
Mr & Mrs Roberts

family Vera, Tom and Annie1930s
71
Harry and Agnes Green pre 1915
William Green pre 1915
Harry Green 1919
J. Glossop 1928
71 Mr Mace 1930s
73
Edward Gaskell pre 1915
Randell Gaskell pre 1915
Henry Wilshaw 1919
I D Evans ? 1925
Mr & Mrs Poucher 1930s
75
Leonard George Drury [pre 1918 ] and Edith J. Drury 1918
Robert Dabbs 1919-1920
Henry Catterall 1927
Mr & Mrs Brown family

Agnes, Tom, Ted, Vincent, Vera, Margaret & Mary 1930s
77
Mr & Mrs Barber + Betty & Brenda 1930s
79
Joseph R Thomson 1925
Henry Charles Thomson 1927
85
J. Watson 1919
87
Arthur Weaver1926
89
Ernest Scott 1928

2
Frank Davies 1920

4
F. O'Brian 1919
John Marsh 1919
6
James Henry Pritchard father of
Chrissie Prithchard 1909
8
Frank Bamford 1919
10
Patrick Kennedy 1919

John Kowley ?1919

Ellis Hunt 1920

E. Fletcher 1924
J. Morley 1924
Michael Rooney 1924
John Fleming 1927
12
H Smith 1927
Joseph Melia 1927
14
Thomas Cole 1927
16
P. Pepper 1919
Stanley Pepper 1924
Sam Beckett 1925
J ? Gakley [ Oakley ] 1926
18
Thomas Loftus 1919

Lawrence Hinchcliffe 1919

Michael Towey 1920

Martin Dignan 1920
Michael Fowey 1925
Jamey McDermott 1927
20
Edward Thomas Bath pre 1915
Susannah Bath, Pre 1915
Wilfred Bath 1924
22
Charles Barrowclough 1924
26
Jas Key 1919
Pat Omelia ? 1919
Connor O’Melia 1925
28
William Smith 1919
30
Oliver Dabs 925
32
Henry Hobson 1919
34
R. Dabbs 1919
George H Green 1919
Enoch Lawrence 1927
38
Edwin Pepper 1919
William West 1924
40
George Henry Moore 1909 father of
Beatris Elizabeth Moore 1909
George H Moores ? 1924
42
H. Gray 1919
Harold Gray 1924
44
Robert Hinchlcliffe 1919
48
S. Twist 1919

H. Williams 1924
54
Mr & Mrs Watson

sons William & Eric 1930's
56
William Bates age 60 August 1919
Thomas Dobbs age 25 August 1919
Mr & Mrs Faramond

daughter Margaret (believed to be in Australia) 1930s
58
G. Goodhall age 44 August 1919
Mr & Mrs Goodall

family Olive, George, Annie, Vernon, Mabel & Lilly 1930s
60
Mr & Mrs George Crossley

daughter Annie and grandson Harold Barber1930s
62
Mr & Mrs Harry Eyre 1930s
64
Mr & Mrs Colin Butcher

sons Colin, Donald, Geoffrey and Malcolm 1930s
66
Mr & Mrs Pegg

son, Albert Pegg 1930s
68
Hilda Neale

brother Horace Neale 1930s
70
Edward Page 1919
72
F J Mace 1919
Mr Hartles

daughters Evelyn & Annie 1930s
74
Mr Joe Gaskell 1930s
76
Mr & Mrs Cook + Joan, George and Ken
78
John Duncan 1924
N Ryan . 1924
Martin Dunkin [ Durkin?] 1925
Michael Ryan 1925
James Dunkin [ Durkin?] ? 1926
Martin Durkin 1927
82
J. Burke 1919
T. Burke 1919
Robert Burke 1924
John Burke 1927
86
James Cooper 1926
90
John W Farmer ? 1919
William Lowell 1919
John G Cawdron 1927

OTHER DWELLINGS SHOPS ETC.

Starting at the bottom of Whinney Hill. even numbers
Mr Wainwright (grocer)
Pillings (butchers),
Atkinsons Mr Wainwrights son-in-law (greengrocer)
Moseleys Fish and Chip shop.
Jimmy Townsend JP cobblers shop
Fred Wolf dairy in the yard of Arundel Villa.
Clara Griffens (grocery)
Mr and Mrs Head (post office),
Cartledges (newsagent),
Joseph Davies living at Newsagent Whinney Hill 1925
Percy Lindsey (barber)
Maskell ? fish and chip shop

Thrybergh Sports and Social Club

Fosters Store

Smiths shop

Willey Butcher

St Peters Church

Whinney Hill School

Other side odd numbers

Police Station

Street not Known
Sidney Tiler age 14 7 ? St off Whinney Hill Thrybergh January 1926
J. Hinchcliffe age15 living at ? Oldgate Lane Thrybergh March 1924
Ernest Drewesey ? lived on Whinney Hill number not known 1925

Albert Marchant 1919

NUMBER UNKNOWN

Earp S Old gate lane

Roy Nixon 1940's

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