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I remember the Maternity Unit being built. My father was on the committee that planned it and it was paid for by the Nuffield Trust, as was the Diagnostic Centre. I remember dad telling me that 'it cost £1,000 a bed' and there were 40 ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Pat Carlyle Aldaya Pat@Positivdesign.Com

I meet one of my friends, he is going fishing, it is around 6:30pm. We go down Green Lane to the canal and turn right over the River Brent. He starts to fish between the locks. Mr Hunt from Studley Grange Road ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell in 1962 by Nick Beard

I am Canadian born, of Welsh parentage, and I became very excited when I saw the name of Pantduu Farm; which to my knowledge was owned by my great grandfather (with the surname James), but whose given name I ...Read more

A memory of Aberbeeg in 1982 by Lyndon Owen James

In 1962-3 I rented a bed-sit in Hughenden Road Clifton for my final year at Bristol Uni. Shared with another chap, also a student. The winter was the year when snow seemed to fall over many nights, the pavements were very slippery with ...Read more

A memory of Clifton by R Stonhold

Though I was born in London in 1938 I spent a lot of my childhood at my grandfather's home, then when he died in 1946 it became my Uncle's home in Bryncoch. The address was Glasfryn 132 Main Road Bryncoch, the house was nearly opposite the Lamb ...Read more

A memory of Neath by jonjacley

I was born in Stanmore Rd n15 in 1953, but moved to Edmonton Green early 1954, so I was told. We lived above Gearys Bakery next to the Golden Lion, my dad worked in the bake house the other side of road.I knew all the stall holders and ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by roger.nev1953

Farsley was a great place to grow up. I lived there from 1937 till 1955. As kids we had great fun playing in the beck just above the Cricket Field, before the Council Estate was built. When it was wet we played in the Cricket ...Read more

A memory of Farsley by colin.colville

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone we ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

My father was a Constable in the Metropolitan Police and in 1937 he transferred from central London to East Molesey. He bought a house in Rosemary Avenue but we had to move to Molesey before it was ready, so we rented a ...Read more

A memory of West Molesey by David Leach

I found this cutting from the Lynn News & Advertiser, Friday, January 12, 1968 and thought it might be of interest to others. IF ANYONE COULD BE CALLED A ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton by geoffhunter