Category: World War 2

January 1, 1970

Crowle at War: Part 10. Dietry Supplements – submitted by Bill Goldthorp

Dietary Supplements. All the lads were at it. I firstly with my cockerels and two year old hens. We all were after rabbits and woodpigeons, which the farmers regarded as pests. Rabbits at first without much success trying to use snares. Then my father bought me a Webley air rifle for a birthday present. My rabbit total suddenly shot up. At eight years old I […]

Bill Goldthorp World War 2

January 1, 1970

Crowle at War:Part 11.Pig potatoes, war casualties – submitted by Bill Goldthorp

Pig potatoes. The small potatoes would be scooped up and taken to the fold yard. Every farm had a yardman who looked after the cows, pigs, chickens and other livestock In the farm building where the pig potatoes were stored would be a large copper where the potatoes would be boiled before being fed to the pigs. Boiled in their jackets they were lovely flowery, […]

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January 1, 1970

Crowle War Memorial Inscriptions

1914-1918 Amery E.J. Allan E. Beadle H. Bellamy W. Bradley J. Brant J.W. Broderick A. Cass T. Clarke W. Cook H. Coop S. Coy C.W. Cranidge J.J. Dale G. Dale R.J. Dale T. Dempster H. Dickman R.C. Drinkall G.A Empson S. Everatt H. Eyre H. Fretwell W. Gibson E. Gilbert C. Goodman C.W. Hague W.P. Hill C. Hill F. Hill W. Hitchcock C.J. Holt A. […]

World War 2

January 1, 1970

Evacuee – submitted by Colin Stewart

Hello to all. Can anyone help. I was evacuated to Crowle in the 1940's but have no details. From what I remember it was a House with Orchard on a corner plot. I have some very happy memories of it My Name (surname was Bugg) Now Stewart – Colin Harold Stewart(Full Christian names. Mother was Gertrude and Father was Harold. I must have been from […]

Crowle memories World War 2

January 1, 1970

Memories of an air gunner

Based at Sandtoft airfield this gunner remembers cycling into Crowle and Belton. In Crowle he was befriended by Pidds the Butchers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/91/a4104091.shtml

Bill Goldthorp World War 2

January 1, 1970

Crowle at War: Part 9. Preserving, Newspapers, – submitted by Bill Goldthorp

Preserving. One could use the sugar ration and occasionally get extra sugar for preserving. My father’s orchard contained a Conference pear and another type of pear tree, Victoria and Damson plums. Green gage plums could be bought from the Ramsdens who owned the Tetley Hall Estate. Every autumn my parents put up about a hundred bottles of fruit in the old Kilner Jars. Damsons were […]

Bill Goldthorp World War 2

January 1, 1970

Crowle at War: Part 8. Salted pig – submitted by Bill Goldthorp

My father started to salt his own pig, the shoulder, ham and sides of bacon. I would be sent to Wrights the grocers with a wheelbarrow and return with a block of salt 2 & ½ feet long and a foot wide and high. The cold slab would be deeply covered in salt and the hams etc. rubbed in salt every day and covered in […]