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I am wondering if anyone remembers the school in Chagford at Holystreet Manor. I went to this school in the mid 1950s and at the time it was called St Brides, later to be re-named Holystreet Manor School with a change of ...Read more

A memory of Chagford in 1955 by David Moon

My father would take me to watch the Brush football team play at home matches, one of my relatives played for them; his name was Stan Hodges. The ground was behind the Queens Park, I remember a narrow foot to the entrance where it ...Read more

A memory of Loughborough in 1952 by Michael Eric Wright

Worked at Bata shoe store in 1962 /1964 would love to see a pic of this store - was next to Mac Fisheries and near Craven A Cafe. I worked with Gloria Oliver from Wortley. On Sat nights we went to the ladies loos opposite to have a wash ...Read more

A memory of Leeds in 1962 by Susan Anne Lee

My mother wrote her childhood memories about 10 years before she died in 1992. She was sent to Friars Children's Home for the sole purpose of working when she was 14 in about 1926. I think that her ...Read more

A memory of Bocking in 1920 by Mary Hill

I had just started at my boarding school The Sacred Heart Convent In Hove Brighton when the first bomb of the war fell , we were hastily evacuated to Shropshire ,the first term we shared with another school, the next term ...Read more

A memory of Lutwyche Hall by enid.g

I live in Australia now . I grew up on Alan Avenue [off Lord Lane] . I was the eldest of 5 children [the Martins] . We had a great life there. I have countless memories of those days in the early 1960s. Walking to Stansfield Road school. ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth by andy9martin

Even tho' it was tough and the food bl...y awful, I still have fond memories as it changed me from a boy into a man almost overnight. The supper duty of pasting melted dripping onto a full sliced loaf with a paint brush so it could drip ...Read more

A memory of Sharpness in 1949 by Maurice Tudor

Am doing some research on my dad and have discovered that he was lodging in Darwen Lancashire in 1939,working as assistant manager at Hollins Brush Company.Does anyone remember this factory?

A memory of Edmonton by Jim Smith

I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

I lived at Mid Shirva Farm from 1950 till 1964. My father was the byreman, he was known as Wee Jock and my mum was Jan. I had a happy time growing up there; the summers seemed to be endless. I played in the fields during the harvest, ...Read more

A memory of Twechar in 1950 by Helen Dickson