Old Penkhull.

[@mrat42]

Today, in the midst of a major “tidy up” I found a VHS copy of this video my mother had bought fo £6.99. Glad to find it on you tube. Amazing that such buildings as Wrights Shop existed into the 60s. Wonderful.

[@stevenwright426]

Would love to see part 2 if its still around. Great to see me grandparents shop.

[@patriciamoreton5501]

That takes me back 60 years 😍

[@msmerlin60]

Fantastic historical film clips of Penkhull and great voice presentation

[@pigsdofly]

My Dad is 90 in June, he was brought up in Penkhull homes when he was young

[@skygorider]

Wow! I love this! what made you record it as a historic event like this, people didn't think like that. what a shame it's changed so much, they were far from slums. I was very tiny at this time, before school age but I may be one of the kids playing on the building sites. No one else seems to remember Stan Right's shop being a green shed at the top of chamberlain avenue. I was sent there for my mum long before school age, walking from Huntley avenue, up the path (cutting) to the top of Penkhull Bank (New Road) and around the back of the ruined cottages to the shop which I remember standing alone in the sandy almost desert of flattened ground. I can't remember the shed being so derelict. the houses that replaced 10 Row, Stan was one of the first to live in them. at 20:04 looking at the derelict 10 row, is that Stan's new wooden shop that you can just see on the left where 7 row would have stood? if so that messes with my pre school memories as I can remember 7 row coming down but can't remember 10 row being there at all. Oh and I wish you had filmed the corner shop on Princes Road and Honeywall, Just to see it again, Mrs Kirkland was devastated when that car crashed through the door way and demolished it. Her whole world was taken away. And people who had once been students at staffs uni, or the former Poly would later get off the motorway just to get some Stanley's Ice Cream. Rumour is that they sold their recipes to one of the big ice cream makers when they retired, and the company burned them because the ice cream was so good.

[@stevenwright426]

skygorider hi, im stans grandson hope you see this and able to reply would be great to hear some storys. He died before i was born. You may have known my dad (phil) and uncle (antony)

[@pebblespebbles2106]

I used to live 4 doors down from Stan's ice cream shop in Westland Street in the late 1970's. Their homemade ice cream was delicious. Stan & his sister Ruth were lovely people. My Nan & Grandad lived in Greatbatch Avenue opposite the Deaf & Dumb School before moving into a maisonette in Thisley Hough opposite the High School. It was a lovely village to grow up in. I worked as a barmaid in the Marquis of Granby when Brenda & Jacko were licensee's .... gud times, long gone 😞

[@pebblespebbles2106]

@@stevenwright426 hi Steve 👋 i knew Stan & Ruth but always thought they were brother and sister... both were a lovely couple & their ice cream was legendary 😋

[@stevenwright426]

@@pebblespebbles2106 think were talking about different stan, my grandad was stan wright. Ran grocery shop, the little green shed that then went on to be the spar when built the shops

[@mrat42]

Mrs Kirklands shop was the closest one to our house in Pehkhull Terrace. I have memories of being in there, possible the earliest memories I have. Didn’t know why the shop had disappeared. Great shame about the accident that caused its destruction.

[@paulbarry9837]

I feel that even today, the people who were responsible for the destruction of Penkhull Village should be held to account. Some are certainly still alive - let them try to explain themselves.

[@PurityVendetta]

I find myself agreeing with you

[@stephholbrook344]

It looked beautiful, I live in Springfields. I prefer the old houses!

[@PurityVendetta]

Although I grew up in Stoke on Trent I left many years ago to find work. I've found it's best to try to retain my memories of the place as it was. Returning does nothing to enhance my memories as the city has been very careless with it's heritage.

[@ianford5113]

I lived there in the 50s 60s my best friend's mother Winnie Wyes, was the caretaker at Penkhull School. I'm 72 now .I went to Penkhull County Secondary Modern School. Very nostalgic

[@mrat42]

My mother, Doris Ratcliffe, was a friend of Winnie Wyse. I remember Delphine. Great that such footage still exists. I remember going into houses in the abandoned 7 Row when thy were abandoned, late 50s, early 60s

[@ianford5113]

@@mrat42 Hey Malcolm, that's good news. My best friend was Alan Wyes, I knew Delphine, and brother Derek, there was another elder brother, can't remember his name but he was a PC with Stoke Police, Dad was Ernie, a PMT bus driver, he gave me my first driving lesson when I was 17. I lived next door to them on Hunters Way, in the 6 council houses on the road. There was a boy in our class who lived on 7 row.Later I was a student at Longton Art College, I've got drawings of 7 row ,and the old workhouse with Norman's Stores.. Me and Alan used to go and shovel the coke for the boiler, for Winnie, before we went to school.I'm 72 now and was a Policeman in Nottingham. What memories, thanks.

[@johnfellows2867]

When the world was a far better place !!

[@aliengrey6052]

My grandma used to live here.

[@john111257]

excellent study of old penkhull..shame about the poor sound..

[@goodgirlsguide]

You can go into youtube studio and edit the sound so that it is louder.

[@ianford5113]

Pity didn't get Penkhull Junior School it was on the opposite corner where the workhouse was top of the Rd.to Trent Vale where I was born.

[@mrat42]

Penkhull Junior School was converted to Penkhull Infants school, I went there 1955 to 57 and then I went to The Close.

[@ianford5113]

@@mrat42 Hey Malcolm, were you born there, I was born at my grandparents on Fremantle Road, Trent Vale, just down the hill from Penkhull, later when I was at Penkhull Senior School, I biked up and down that hill to Grandparents for dinner, it seemed steep at the time.

[@mrat42]

@@ianford5113 I lived in Penkhull Terrace from birth to about 14, then moved to Trent Vale for a few years, then back to Penkhull Terrace. I went to uni at 18 and came home during hols. Got married and visited my Mum till she died in 2007. Not been back to Stoke for 5 years. Though have used Google Earth to look at it. Amazing the number of huge warehouses on the Hanford to Stoke road.

[@ianford5113]

@@mrat42 Thanks for that ,perhaps we crossed paths at some time, I left Penkhull about 1967 and moved to Oxford St, Hartshill, then got married and moved to Spring Rd, Normacot. My parents moved to Penrhyn Bay, North Wales. I left Stoke in 1972, never to return . I lived in France from 2000 to 2019, I live in Lincolnshire now and have also been reminiscing about Stoke via You Tube.All my family lived and died in Stoke mainly from Silver dale although that's 'Castle. Good days though.

[@mrat42]

@@ianford5113 did you say where you lived in Penkhull? Wow, 20 years living in France ... I find that very adventurous, where in France? And now living in Lincs. A big county. After Uni in Aberystwyth, I went into teaching, lived in Dover doing teacher training, and our first job was in Lincolnshire. 1972 to 1979. Not a delightful rural village. But at the time newly married, lots of young friends etc it was great. But Immingham was somewhere we arrived at, rather than chose. A bit like where we live now, 41 years, but it’s chalk and cheese compared with Immingham. Henley in Arden. Bought an almost derelict house, and spent most of my life on DIY, building etc. Still not finished, but great to have a project in lockdown.

[@goodgirlsguide]

WHere is Penkull?

[@alexwright9102]

Penkhull is a village in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire UK