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I grew up in Finechty and spent most of my childhood years down at the beach or climbing the Bin Hill or the Hill of Maud. The Hill of Maud was a good place to find seagulls' eggs.

A memory of Findochty in 1950

I look back on my time living in Hoylake as a child with great fondness. We lived in the Lighthouse pub for about 3 years. We were there when it closed. I can remember going down to the beach to see the lifeboat.

A memory of Hoylake in 1958 by John Stuart

I recall as a child in the 1950s, being taken on outings from my grandparents' home in Litherland via Seaforth/ South Road stations to the beach at Marine Crescent, Waterloo. On a recent nostalgic trip there I was surprised ...Read more

A memory of Waterloo in 1956 by First Name Last Name

If anyone were to ask me when I was most happy, I would have to go back some considerable time to those years spent in Wheatley Hill, more especially the late 1940s all of the 1950s and early 1960s. Truly magical times, ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley Hill in 1954 by Frank Dinsdale

I was born in Wisbech and lived in the White House, Burnt Street throughout my childhood. My mother Mary Kitson founded the drama group and was the first lady mayoress of Wells. My father George Kitson died when I was 11. He and ...Read more

A memory of Stiffkey in 1950 by Veda Summers

I have very fond memories of walking up this road in order to catch the old steam train to Chippenham, but alighting at Black Dog so that we could visit my grandparents who lived in Stanley. In younger days, I would paddle in the canal ...Read more

A memory of Calne in 1950 by Judy Cook

I have fond memories of our family holidays in Chapel St Leonards in the 1950s, it was also where some of my relatives lived and worked. I remember the giant fish that was washed up on the beach and I ...Read more

A memory of Chapel St Leonards in 1950 by Maureen Burdett

I am not a beach boy, even though we share a name. (I have not worked out how to create paragraphs,so bear with me.) My parents moved to the Beach when I was about 11 years old (around 1953) to Beach Road. We lived in the ...Read more

A memory of Severn Beach in 1953 by Brian Wilson

I first went to Angmering after the war. My grandparents lived there and we used to spend time there in the summer. In those days there were no such things as beach furniture or pic-nic equipment. We had an ex army camp ...Read more

A memory of Angmering in 1950

My mother came from Dormanstown and my grandparents, Ellen and James Mitchell, lived at 67, Broadway West. This was a Dorman-Long house as my grandfather and an uncle worked for the Dorman-Long Steel Works. I spent many a ...Read more

A memory of Dormanstown in 1950 by Elizabeth Cannon