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"WE'ERS THA' LIVE "? SCHOOL STREET.
The photo above was taken by Jonathan Dabs in 2003 shot from the entrance of Whinney Hill School. School Street if I remember right was just in front of the Gable ends visable
For the first few years of my life I lived "Dahn't Backs" [ Down the Back Street's ] in School Street, Thrybergh. The house's were in terraced rows comprising of "two rooms up and two rooms down" with a usable attic. So the downstairs back room was the kitchen, dining room, and general living area, and the downstairs front room was usually reserved for when you had guest to entertain. The two upper rooms and attic were used as bedrooms. The front Gardens were tiny little strips between the house and pavement, and the back yards were shared with one neighbour. the yards were asphalt with brick walls dividing the yards. I have a few early memories of School Street, mostly about the back steps to the house. I tested them for hardness a few times, and came to the conclusion that stepping down them one at a time was far less painful than bouncing off them all in one go. At the bottom of the yards were the toilet and coal house. Who could forget those outside toilets on a winters morning, EEE' them wooden toilet seats were welcome back then. The ceramic kitchen sink was often used as a bathtub for the kids. I can just about remember the Hawker who used to come around selling fruit and Veg. [ I think it was Stan Naylor or Mr. Lilley from Lilley's farm on Vale road.
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
1 3 Frank Fox 1919 Thomas Mahoney 1920 Thomas Whitby 1927 5 Joseph Foster 1919 Robert Mahoney 1919-1920 Joseph Walker 1924 7 Thomas Longmire 1925 9 J. Overton 1919 John Wall 1919 11 P. Wilding 1926 A. Wilding 1926 Rodger Wilding 1926 W A Williams ? 1927 13 Albert Poucher 1919 15 17 19 21 23 Thomas Jessop ? 1919	2 4 6 Albert Durham 1920 Wilfred Durham 1927 Joseph Durham 1928 Ike Doxey pre 1953 Margaret Doxey pre 1953 Ann Doxey pre 1953 Peter Doxey pre 1953 Valerie Doxey pre 1953 Kathleen Doxey pre 1953 John Doxey 1947-1953 8 Joseph Fairhurst 1919-1924 Mark Morris 1919 William Hooson ? 1924 Alfred James Finch 1924 Mrs. Foster pre 1960 10 J W Plows 1919 James Woodburn 1919 12 George Burton 1927 14 Silas Miree 1919 Ernest Willis 1926 W. Willis 1927 16 C Adams 1919 18 R. Brambill 1920


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