Goldenhill 1896

The last item we posted was 1870, a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then.

The population explosion has settled down, it has only increased from 3000 to 3183.

The Reverend Granville Rowe Bailey is the vicar at St John’s, Stanley Punshon Morris is his curate.

The Catholic chapel built in 1882 […]

Goldenhill 1870

Goodness me, is it 1870 already?

How time flies when you are reminiscing.

19 years on from our last story, there have been a lot of changes since then.

The population is now 3000, that is more than double what it was in 1851.

There has been a large influx of people from the surrounding […]

Local Memories

Come on all you people out there lets get sharing some of the old memories of Goldenhill and Sandyford.

Joe Smith, Chairman of S.A.G.E. found out that in Goldenhill in the thirteen hundreds that a man paid a penny a year to dig coal for a living “Historic Mining Village of Goldenhill”

So that we […]