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Tosh and I and easy pickings Hi everyone, It's me again with the continuation of my wee story. I was taken by surprise how many people liked and responded to the ...Read more

A memory of Newarthill by Peter Laird

Herbert William Nunn, born Carlton Colville, 1888; killed in action 13 November 1916 was the fiance of my mother's neighbour of 50 years. Her name was Ethel Lilly, and she lived in Nottingham, the family taking ...Read more

A memory of Carlton Colville by mea

I, with my three brothers and mother, lived for a while in an apartment near the top end of the town. My father was in the Argyle and Sutherland's. Later we moved out of town to a house called 'Pothill' where my mother was dairymaid and ...Read more

A memory of Auchterarder by Neil Grant

Was the year my family moved from Acton to Earldom Road, Putney, where we lived at number 10 (cost £5500 in 1963!). I have so many memories that I really don't know where to begin! The rag and bone man and his ancient horse trundling up our street, ...Read more

A memory of Putney by andrewrg

We took our children every year from 1968 till 1976. There was a building near the beach behind Kinmel Bay which has diamond shaped leaded windows. Does anyone have a photo please? We stayed at Winkups too.We went to the club every night ...Read more

A memory of Towyn by Carol Ford

I visited the church in 2008 with my mom, and husband, as this is the church where her dad Albert George Blythe married her mom, Matilda Elkin. It was a beautiful church, so peaceful and quiet. We walked around and saw some family ...Read more

A memory of Acton in 2008 by Trish Coe

Hi Guys , Another piece of East End literature from Vic B , I was thinking back the other day of the things that made me laugh as a youngster growing up in the East End although it must have applied to the whole of ...Read more

A memory of South Hackney by vickyb60

I moved from St Pancras to Etherley Road Tottenham with my parents as a very young baby. I was born in 1941 and lived in Tottenham until my late teens. I went to Belmont school from 1953 to 1956 during which time I had a class ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham by xox99bb34zz

In the summer of 1960 I spent my Westminster Hotel School holiday working at The Pier Hotel in Seaview, Isle of Wight, mostly working in the dining room (that white windowed section protruding on the left). Funnily, I don't ...Read more

A memory of Seaview by Dylan Rivis

I stayed here with my parents in about 1968, when I would have been 10. We were visiting my great-uncle, the pioneering air-to-air aviation photographer Charles Sims, who lived at Wootton, near the then recently closed (and now happily ...Read more

A memory of Fishbourne by socaman_58