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As a long distance truck driver running up from Staffordshire I would spend five nights in Sheffield every two weeks. I would stay at the Salvation Army hostel just off the moor. Evenings were spent wandering around Sheffield ...Read more

A memory of Sheffield in 1963 by Peter Hawthorne

I remember when I started school - I think it may have been Brierley Street, but I left Crewe in l956, aged 8, so I am not sure, but we lived on Nantwich Road in a flat above the Co-op. From the late 1940s my dad (Sydney Alston) used to ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1954 by Jaques Alston

It was a great market gaff to stand on, what a buzz. I had the time of my life there. The majority of the stallholders were legend and the locals were spot on. Times were good then and so were markets, unfortunately times and business ...Read more

A memory of Preston in 1994 by Ged Dolanbrown

I was born in Byerley Road, Shildon, just up from the picture-house - Hippodrome I think. The male population worked either in the pits or on the railways, you could tell the time by the shift-ends when the men either went to work or ...Read more

A memory of Shildon in 1940

My grandfather's brother Albert Charles Greenfield was an omnibus driver in 1907 who married at The Church of the Ascension. His family lived in Birley Street near Clapham Junction. His wife Elizabeth Penfold's family ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by Gemma Gemma

Can anyone remember the sewing machine shop which was below the (i think it was) the County Express, corner of Albion Street, But not as far as Trembaths Corner Shop. My Gran lived around there up until they demolished that ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill by pauljjones

I was born in Herts Hill. Holly Hall 64 years ago in a house on the main road next door but one to the Doctors, the doctors name was Dr. McCormack. Opposite was a pub called The Stag. My father and his brothers had ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill by Christine Turner

My granny and grandad ran the Post Office in Lower Willingdon from about 1948 - 1958. They were called Ernest and Ethel Brierley. Does anyone out there remember them? Thanks Angela Jennings

A memory of Willingdon in 1950 by Angela Jennings

Does anyone remember the Lord Raglan in thomas street harry norman was the landlord we used to live next door at no 99 My name was fay prince l had a brother called stuart. I worked in the co op offices sorting out ...Read more

A memory of Crewe by fayaparry

I was born in Birley Street, just near the reck park, now re named the red reck. I went Liverpool Street Girls School when I was a little one. I started in the nursery. I loved that old school. I remember watching ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1964 by Karen White