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Starting from Tesco Express: This used to be a block of about 2 or 3 shops which included a building society and a travel agent. Next to this was Barclays Bank which closed down in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It remained ...Read more

A memory of Cranford

Born in Dunfermline in 1946, but we lived in Cowdenbeath at 45 Blackburn Drive - in a postwar aluminum prefab. Attended Foulford School from '51 to '54 when we emigrated to Canada. I remember the "tunnel" open to the front of ...Read more

A memory of Cowdenbeath

My Mum, Dad and I moved to Pailton in 1960/61; we moved in to 10 Lutterworth Rd which had been a saddlers at some time. We had some builders in to renovate the place and I remember my mother saying they had to remove 72 ...Read more

A memory of Pailton in 1961 by Marj Peel

I was born in 1950, and lived in Edenfield from 1955-1961, when we moved to Stubbins. I went to the primary school, where the teachers were Mrs Horton and Mr. Parker. Then he was followed by Mr. Howorth. My friends at the school at ...Read more

A memory of Edenfield in 1950 by Stephen Taylor

The earliest memories of the shops on Ellacombe Road was a Co-op at the top of the rank of shops a kiosk then Ron the off licence, wool shop, butchers and greengrocers at the bottom, these all closed when Asda ...Read more

A memory of Longwell Green in 1980 by Ricky Veale

My mother was a niece of Donald Stewart (her father "Charles Stewart's" brother) She remembers being driven in his treasured Rolls Royce when she was a child.

A memory of Ellon in 1940

I remember the crossing at fawdon and the number 6 7 buses that used to terminate there. There was a co- op.beside the bungalows just over crossing.Andrews tin factory and Rowntrees chocolate factory close by. ...Read more

A memory of Fawdon in 1950 by Gordon Walton

I lived on Hesleyside Road, Wellfield in the late 1950s/early 1960s and as a boy knew all the local fields and highways and by-ways. Although I left the area some years later as I entered my teens I never really lost touch ...Read more

A memory of Earsdon by Neil Johnson

I worked in the NAFFI in Norton which was in Worcester inJan 1972 where I meet my hubby Michael Woodcock we went out for a bit and got married in the April no I was not pregnant.We got married in Pershore ...Read more

A memory of Malvern Wells by Elsie Woodcock

Sept 1971, and Ventnor became the place of our honeymoon. We had a fabulous week, the weather was good, a lovely hotel just up the hill from the beach. At the end of it, we were very brave and returned to the mainland by hovercraft ...Read more

A memory of Ventnor in 1971 by Susan Moore