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Home Subscriptions Send us your memories Buy online Links ISSUE 7 CONTENTS Where Co-operators Set the Pace Mouth-watering Memories of Midgley More stories of local co-operative societies... When Tom Mix Came to Todmorden Our Dad's Garage at Upper Foot Then the Hills Were Alive with the Sound of Music! The Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder Valley |
Digging for Victory
Click photo to enlarge. Code no BT937DS. Few places in the valley have undergone a bigger change than Birks Field, St Peter's Gate, Walsden, pictured just months before World War One broke out. The view today is virtually unrecognisable, only St Peter's Vicarage, top centre, providing a clue as to where the scene is set. By 1918 over 26 acres of land in Todmorden had been let to 1,170 allotment holders; as a result the town fared better than most places when food was in short supply. But even here potatoes were unobtainable in the spring of 1917. Swedes were grown instead! Read the full story in Milltown Memories, issue 7. If this or other stories stirs a memory, we'd be happy to know - send us your memories and comments. Don't miss our Summer 2004 issue on sale in June. |
