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I used to live on Bury Road and was a keen swimmer. Well I remember if the swimming baths were busy, I used to hop on the Norden bus and go to the outdoor pool at Norden known as the riviera, boy was that water cod, but what great fun was had.

A memory of Rochdale in 1962 by Margaret Barlow

The mill bridge shown in the photograph was washed away in a flood in the 1960's. Unfortunately the mill pond was a favourite place for some children to swim in then. We lost one of the children on the hospital estate by drowning ...Read more

A memory of Chartham in 1961 by Peter Soltysiak

I lived at No 92 Harbour Road, Pagham Beach from 1955 to 1967 when I moved to Nyetimber. Our bathroom was the railway carriage and the only access was by carefully dropping the window using the leather strap with holes and opening the ...Read more

A memory of Pagham in 1960 by Sue Priday

In 1964 my most profound memories were of staying with both my Grandparents in there home which was the old school house. George booth the local milkman had his dairy next door and every time i arrived i ...Read more

A memory of Hale in 1964 by Pollitt Dave

I was born in Ireby in 1955. I had two sisters and a brother, Linda Val and Paul. My mum was born in Ireby and her dad John Coates (my grandad) lived around the corner in the cottages in the middle of Ireby. I went ...Read more

A memory of Ireby in 1966 by Sylvia Hutton Nee Newby

My fathers parents, Edward and Winifred Simmons, ran the general stores in the Parade at Otford in the 1950s and early 1960s. My mother, her sister and parents, Grace and Alfred Maddock, lived in Bubblestone ...Read more

A memory of Shoreham in 1960 by Anne Helen Roberts

Hi, we moved to Romiley in 1960. We lived first at 41 Green Lane, houses long since gone, but the large wall that was at the side of the house is still there. We had family living in the same row as our house, ...Read more

A memory of Romiley in 1965 by Rosemary Sleigh

In 1958/59 my mother-in-law Elsie Pugh has been cleaning the toilets for several years in Trecco Bay together with her husband Albert. My husband Roy Griffiths also worked on the site. We got married in 1960 and went to live in Trecco ...Read more

A memory of Porthcawl in 1961 by Kathleen Griffiths

Where do I begin? I have titled this memory thus and placed it in about 1960, because that's the most accurate I can make it. Ida (my mum) pushing me in a pram up the 'Cliff' to the wood yard, that used to be up by the ...Read more

A memory of Draycott in 1960

My mum and dad moved to haverhill when I was just 6mths old. I went to school at Burton End School. Ii remember there was many of us in that school - most of kids came from London. Then I went to Castle Middy School, which was so big ...Read more

A memory of Haverhill in 1968 by Caroline Jenkins