In this section you can find out about some of the families of Kiveton Park and Wales. When they were born, who they married, their careers and where they are now.

Please select a section from the list below and read at your leisure.

• The Parker/Holden Family
  

  Every Friday, after collecting his pay, my dad took me to school on the handlebars of his bike. His kids, me and my brother David and sister Sheila, had a treat on Fridays after dad getting his pay - he bought us a Wagon Wheel and a pack of Beech Nut spearmint...

  
  
• The Oakton Family
  

  Hello from Saltburn by the Sea where we have lived for the past twenty years. We left Kiveton in 1966 when Les went to work as a supervisor at Nypro, a new chemical company near Scunthorpe. Some people may remember the big explosion there in June 1974...

  
  
• The Chapman Family
  

  My great grandfather Edward Chapman, a stonemason, was killed in a quarry accident at Crich in Derbyshire. He had been married for only two and a half years and his son, my grandfather John, was two months old....

  
  
• Hart, Eddershaw & Fenton Families
  

  The Hart and Eddershaw families had much in common. Both fathers were deputies at the colliery and all their sons were involved in the mining industry. Moreover both families were regular attenders and committed to life revolving around Chapel...