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The image that we are looking at is now my home. It is a beautiful home now. My grandad as a young lad used to deliver papers for the old shop Critchlows Corner. Reading the comments make me think that my home is part of Blurton history.

A memory of Blurton by Nathan Mills

As a child living in Blurton up until the age of about 12, I remember playing with my friends at the "White Rock" Yet cannot find any other reference to this on maps etc. Does Anyone know what happened to this landmark?

A memory of Blurton by paul.meadpn

My gran's name was Lily Illes and she lived in one of Pineapple Cottages at Lower Swell as a child. She left home at 15 to go and work in London and then moved to Scotland with my grandpa. I have visted and stayed in ...Read more

A memory of Lower Swell by Jillian Gray

i started work on September 15th 1965 as an oiler and greaser in Hirwaun / Hirwaun Pond, although the station was closed i knew the stationmaster Jack Boulton, he was a great character, happy days! i went on to work in Cardiff and ...Read more

A memory of Hirwaun by paterson129

My Farther George Martin played for Bourton Rovers football team an in the river

A memory of Bourton-on-the-Water by stobart26

My grandparents Mr Harry Thomas Gander & Mrs Louisa Jane Gander, retired as missionaries in India in 1954, having been in India from 1906 in the Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu and came to live in one of the ...Read more

A memory of Bebington by Patricia Jones

my family moved to blurton council estate when I was about 4 yrs old, that would be 1952, my sister was 5, our first school was st bartholmews in church lane then we went to Sutherland primary and junior schools, after that we went to ...Read more

A memory of Blurton by josephstebbings

I remember going to Critchelows corner shop to get my sweets before I went to school, I also remember walking across the fields with my brother to get to Blurton Road Chemist because that was the only one in Blurton at the time to ...Read more

A memory of Blurton by Eileen Nicklin

Does anyone remember or know someone that might remember the McKinnell family who lived on Bourton Street in the mid 1950's. The property they lived at may have been a Blacksmith's I think. I am producing ...Read more

A memory of Belfast by kgmr221256

My grandparents were George and Agnes Thornton, Nanny ran the post office from her house, Granddad served in the war and died aged 47years. They had 7 children, my mother Pamela was one of the children, her siblings were/are ...Read more

A memory of Wormleighton in 1920 by Susan Wines