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In 1950 the paths and green at Monton Green had been newly laid out as it exists today. The paths were red gravel and if you so much as scuffed your boots in the gravel there was a 'park keeper' to reprimand you. I had my photo taken ...Read more

A memory of Eccles in 1950 by Albert Beckett

I was born in Bridgnorth in 1958 and spent 20 years at sea navigating B.P. Tankers around the World. I loved the Town so much I used to write historic booklets on the Town in my spare time at sea and during my long shore ...Read more

A memory of Bridgnorth in 1958 by Clive Gwilt

Beside the strawberry bed grew a large cooking apple tree that produced enormous green apples. We had a variety of both eating and cooking apple trees in the garden, the fruit from which was harvested and then stored ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

I remember my early schooldays very well. I started at Bush Corner Open Air school in 1953. I was born in Ealing Road Brentford in 1947 and first went to school at Ealing Road school. When I was 6 I went to Bush Corner Open air ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1953 by Olive Fairchild

Living in Bearwood (posh end of Smethwick) I pushed my bike then Lambreta Scooter up and down the Hagley Road between 1956-62 as I served out my engineering apprenticeship at Bellis & Morcom, Ledsam Street, Edgbaston.  Good ...Read more

A memory of Edgbaston in 1956 by Terry King

I was born here in Newton Green and lived in the house just visible on the left - the last one. It was called Cotswold. The village shop was run by Mark Wilson and that could be him in the photograph, tinkering with the ...Read more

A memory of Newton in 1957 by Pete Rowland

My family moved to the post office in Mytchett Road in 1956 when I was six. I used to catch the bus at the bus stop opposite to go to Ash Vale Primary School. Yes, on my own, clutching my penny ha'penny bus fare and reciting in ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett in 1956 by Faith Moulin

My aunt and uncle used to own a large old house in Mytchett Rd. It had a long driveway leading down to an orchard and fields, where my cousins and I would spend many happy hours. In one field was a large pond with a willow tree on the ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett in 1957 by Julia Clarke

It was in a cold winter of 1957 when I arrived as a private at the old timber huts close to engineers corner. After much square bashing & rifle drills including hours on the ranges it was onto driver training with ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp in 1957

It was about 1953 when we discovered pluffers and ca caws. The pluffer was a device we used for a pea-shooter. This was a straight stem from a weed and it was about an inch or so in diameter, hollow through the centre and ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows