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I was four years old and lived with mum in a caravan parked in this farmer's field along with other caravaners. Mum and dad would have paid rent to the owner of the farm. I was the only youngster around and had no choice ...Read more

A memory of Burtonwood in 1959

Yup well recall Smiffy treated us boys of St Helena on the skive.... with considerable contempt..... recall his "floating" marathoons spread eagled in the deep end.

A memory of Colchester in 1959 by Dick Mason

I was brought up in this small village, lived at 1, St John's Road with my grandparents Frank and Emily Potter. Then, when the prefabs were built in Graig-Felen, my parents and my two sisters moved there. My dad ...Read more

A memory of Clydach in 1959 by Kathleen Potter

I lived with my grandmother who was Sara Catherine Roberts and we lived in Liverpool House, Penisarwaun. I was a teenager and lived there for about three years. I went to school at Llanrug, the one down the bottom of a lane. My ...Read more

A memory of Penisa'r Waun in 1958 by Wendy Ann Preston

I am originally from St. Helens, Lancashire, and met my husband, Roy, at Burtonwood AFB where I worked. He was stationed at Wethersfield but came on occasion to Burtonwood. When I moved south to be married, I had to live in the ...Read more

A memory of Shalford in 1958 by Anita Watson

My grandparents moved to Rainham in the 1930s and were there during the Second World War. After the war my mother married at St Helen's and St Gile's and when I was born, in 1952, my earliest and fondest memories are ...Read more

A memory of Rainham in 1958 by Jane Briggs

I was born in St Helens Hospital in 1957 to Eric and Phyliss Croucher. My dad owned the village Newsagent at the time and my grandfather Frederick Croucher and a Mr Fuller owned the grocery shop in the High St. Both my grandparents ...Read more

A memory of Robertsbridge in 1957 by Lynda Clarke

I remember getting off a bus in Upper George Street with my dad and walking down towards George Street and I saw the library and said what's that pointing - my dad said "It's a library and you borrow books from there". I was amazed and ...Read more

A memory of Luton in 1957 by Lynda Powers

My sister and cousins all went to a school in West Moors in the 1950's. Our family names are Spreadbury, Andrews, Stevens, and our parents were Olivers who lived in Grange Road, St Ives. ...Read more

A memory of West Moors in 1957 by Janet Timms

I worked as a nurse at the hospital from 1955 to 1956 and went back for the first time in June of this year. It was really nostalgic to be there again, even though the hospital has long gone the Botanic Gardens are ...Read more

A memory of Ventnor in 1956 by Marjorie O'sullivan,Nee Brown