Aldbrough St John

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Childhood memories.

I have many happy memories of Melsonby as I visited regularly until the 1980's. My father's family (Healey) were from Melsonby and my aunt was a teacher at the C of E school for many years. My father and most of his family are buried in the churchyard in the picture. The right-hand cottage belonged to the Rennison family and as a child no visit to Melsonby was complete without a visit to them.
Although only 22 miles from Middlesbrough where I lived it took 2 and a half hours to get to Melsonby and 3 different buses.
A memory of Melsonby contributed by brenda fairbairn

Shop and Post Office

My parents, Fred and Marjorie Reeks bought the shop and Post Office from Mrs Britton in 1947 and they owned the business till about 1985. In the mid sixties Fred got about 100,000 daffodil bulbs from a market garden in Darlington and spent many hours getting a single furrow dug around the perimeter of each of the pieces of the green and creating the words "Cross Keys" in front of the pub and "Post Office Eppleby" around the turning bay in front of the shop in letters that were about 3 feet tall. He then spent many more hours planting the bulbs in the furrows. He also put the big stones there to try to stop people from driving over the ...read more here
A memory of Eppleby contributed by Alison Glass

The McHugh Family,  1963-1965

Hello all,  my name is Terry McHugh Junior, as I am apparently the first to hit this site I will share with you my early childhood memories of that lovely village in Yorkshire, Eppleby.

We moved into Eppleby in 1963, my Dad (Terry McHugh senior) was in the Army at the time, serving in Catterick, my Mum's name was Edna. We moved in to Archway cottages and lived in the furthest cottage away from Reeks shop and petrol station. Across from the archway dividing the cottages lived our friends Dot and Stan Tweddle. Dot and Stan had 2 children who we used to play with. Stan was the landlord of the Travellers Rest public house.   

Mr Reeks used ...read more here
A memory of Eppleby contributed by Terry McHugh

BRITTON ,CHARLES,---PORTER,ELIZABETH JANE

Elizabeth jane Porter was my Great Aunt and married Charles Britton at the parish church ,in the parish of Middleton Tyas in the county of York on the 24th of Nov 1891. Their witnesses were John Porter ,Betsy Gardner and Arthur Britton . I would love to know if anyone has any knowledge of any them or their descendants.
I also believe that her brother John Wardman Porter was married in the same church .
All help would be appreciated .
A memory of Middleton Tyas contributed by SUSAN CROSBY