My memories of Radcliffe are very vague, as we never lived there. I do remember in the late 1950s going to visit a friend's grandmother in Dandsfield. She must have lived towards the bottom as I recall playing on the remains of the old pit heap across the road.
My dad was the picket leader in Radcliffe in early 1972, during the national miners strike. The picket post was in the Chapel and their intention was to stop opencast traffic crossing their line.
I wonder if Newburgh Tce was built when the shaft was sunk at that end, I think about 1892?
The census is frustrating as in 1891 it just refers to Radcliffe Terrace, by 1901 Longstaff's Buildings are mentioned. The founder of the bus company lived there, first as a pitman and later as a carter. He died at Grange House, Radcliffe. Maybe the naming has something to do with that family? Questions, questions......if only we'd asked when people and Radcliffe were still alive
