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I was a pupil at Ayr Academy in the mid 1960`s.The dance studio was then Cathcart Church and I remember our school attending there for an episode of Songs of Praise. I can also remember Ayr Academy taking part in Top of the Form on BBC radio, it was recorded in the boys gym in the Academy.

A memory of Ayr by Alistair Watson

In 1960-63 I lived in Stanley Grove off School Rd which is where they now have the Arndale. We moved into a pre-fab in Ashbourne Crescent at Sale Moor when they had plans for the Arndale. My first job was at Boots Chemist ...Read more

A memory of Sale in 1964 by Janet Waller

I lived with my grandparents in Mark Street until I was 7. I had a friend called Thomas Ayre. I often dream about the streets and people. I visited it yesterday May 3rd and nothing remained but factorys and rubbish. The town ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1944 by Ann Wyatt

We first lived in White Cottages, when I was about 2, my dad Des Brown worked as a dairyman on the farm, and my mother Audrey cleaned for a Mrs Henshaw. When I was 4/5 we moved up the road to 3 Wheatley Close, next door to ...Read more

A memory of Steventon in 1953 by Jackie Brown

Robert Lewis. In 1951 to1954 I was employed as a page boyat the Worcestershire brine baths hotel.i was 141/2 yrs of age. The manager was Mr hill,he lived in the hotel with his wife and daughter pat. I worked with the head porter Jim ...Read more

A memory of Droitwich Spa by David Lewis

hi am asking on behalf of my mother sharon westlake she was in a housefire on April 3, 1969. it was on Albert Street, Chester-le-Street, County Durham she lost her mother june ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street by nutsnutsnuts2012

I was born at the maternity hospital in 1951, My parents and I lived at 24 Clifton Road while I was a baby but moved to 66 Park Avenue as my mother could not abide my father's mother. I attended St Oswalds C of E ...Read more

A memory of Ashbourne by gordon.braddock

Cross Street in Ayr became King Street It underwent changes bit is still King Street in 2015

A memory of Troon

My great-grand father, John Henry Vickers, and his family moved to Grimethorpe between 1901 and 1911. They had been living in Castleford prior to this but moved into 46 New Buildings in Grimethorpe. His family at that ...Read more

A memory of Grimethorpe by Paul Halford

Can anybody help with information, memories or photos of a former children's home in Epping New Road, in Buckhurst Hill? I spent part of my childhood in a children's ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1955 by The Frith Memory Archivist