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While studying and working in dreary damp Manchester in November 1967 I persuaded three friends in my Hall of Residence at the university to go away for the weekend to Glasgow. The attraction was a football match so we ...Read more

A memory of Loch Lomond in 1967 by John Howard Norfolk

It was so interesting to find a few photos of old Astwood Bank on here. I moved to the village when my mother married my step father, Jesse Bradley, in 1964. We lived at 21 High Street and I got a job at the ...Read more

A memory of Astwood Bank in 1969 by Sue Ford

Memories of Brambletye Boys Preparatory School 1967 – 1971. When I went to Brambletye at the age of nine, in September 1967, it was my fifth school in the last four years. As my parents were routinely being ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1967

Hi, my husband, Tony, was born in Cooks Drove, Earith, in the actual house that's still there to this day. After a year there he moved to St Ives but we now live in Bluntisham. All his sisters were born in Earith and his dad used to ...Read more

A memory of Earith in 1968 by Noreen Simons

F-18 From a distance, Tam watched in silence. Like him, the monster had remained in the same place all night, dormant; poised. His eyes hurt from too many fags, the odd tear, and staring ahead into the night ...Read more

A memory of Whiteinch in 1962 by Alex Hay

I was there for 6 weeks in 1966 or 1967, recovering from a car crash which badly damaged my right arm. Had lessons on how to become left-handed!! Remember the pool, slipped and had a fall which for some reason got the staff very ...Read more

A memory of Farnham Royal in 1967 by Mike Alderson

At 55 now, I still have wonderful memories of old Balintore, enough to write a book, too many to write on here. I grew up in Balintore in the 60's and early 70's and would trade all my worthy possessions to re live those ...Read more

A memory of Balintore in 1963 by Jim Falconer

I was born in a small maisonette off Alandale Drive and my mum still lived there until she passed away aged 95 in 2014. The border between Hillingdon/Harrow runs across the back garden. I attended Pinner Wood ...Read more

A memory of Northwood Hills in 1960 by John Jossevel

I used to go to Hassobury School, Hazel End from 1960 to 1962. It was a lovely old mansion but sadly it is flats now. It was surounded by countryside and we used to go for walks with Mrs Lyle and she used to sit us down then read from ...Read more

A memory of Farnham in 1960 by Pat Kings

Seems to ring a bell, but I lived in 104 Newark Drive from 1960 till 1976 when I left town and moved to the Channel Islands and then Australia. I have lived here for the past 33 years, the past 22 on the Gold Coast, qld ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1969 by Linda Dorington