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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

When we were children during WWII, my brothers Rob and Wilf and myself often visited Weston Green. At Weston Green there were two churches and two ponds called Marneys and Milburns. My ...Read more

A memory of Weston Green by Janet Moore

1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more

A memory of Market Harborough by Keith Luckman

Like everyone else growing up in Newarthill, life wasn’t easy, as times were tough in the 50s and 60s and I suppose in many ways it is today. But back then people really had nothing, but one thing I do remember - ...Read more

A memory of Newarthill by Peter Laird

I remember the triangle of shops at the top of Whetstone Hey in(1962), when I was about 7 years old. If you came up Whetstone Hey, from Valley Drive, on your left was Wartons Newsagents (what we called The Paper Shop). It was ...Read more

A memory of Great Sutton by John Harrison

My memories have a date range from 1958 to date. Although I was born in Irvine due to my mother needing urgent medical assistance I was brought up in a town that I grew to love and found easy to defend against anyone who barracked it. I ...Read more

A memory of Kilmarnock by John Stewart

I was born in Taplow in 1957, my parents shared a house (a semi) with my grandparents. They lived downstairs and us obviously upstairs. I attended St Anthony’s Catholic School on the Farnham Rd and at that time they had ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Bob Gough

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which was ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore by Peter Jewell

I am a 67 year old British citizen and have lived for over 40 years as a rock musician in Germany. I went to Ryde School in the 60s. After I left I was lonely living in London and used come back to the island ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by Simon Hornsby

This photo is taken 100 yards up Brimscombe lane, looking back across the Golden Valley. The lane itself leads back up to Thrupp Lane & Dark lane, which is on its way to Quarhouse and the Lypiatt Manor, (the ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe by Philip Baker