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Holland is a bustling Essex coastal town `resplendent`-a bride in her wedding day gown, tree lined avenues, with neat little plots, well kept gardens and a place for the tots, a school, four churches, library and hall, a ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1993 by Allen Warrender

I have a lot of great memories of when I grew up, Big Billy Campbell a mate for life, Willie Kerr, Alec Fulton now gone but not forgotton and ma wee cous Gerry, we all were brought up in Ramoan, a city in Glenboig, I remember ...Read more

A memory of Glenboig in 1989 by Hugh Shields

I used to live in Mellison Rd, just around the corner from Sellincourt Rd. My memories of the school was a good one, governed mainly by the teachers. These are some names of my fellow pupils at ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1979 by Lee Moss

I was born in Windlesham down Broadley Green, 30th June 1973. I have memories that make me smile from ear to ear, playing in the corn fields, going to the jumble sales up Chertsey Rd Hall, playing man hunt up the rec. Fruit and ...Read more

A memory of Windlesham in 1973 by Anthony Joseph Jackson

Hello, My family originated from east London (mainly Dagenham), but our branch 'emigrated to Battersea in 1964. Our first address was 22 Morella Road, right opposite Wandsworth common. I went to Honeywell junior ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1970 by Bob Robson

I lived in West Lane, Allendale Cottages from 1962 to 1964 with my wife Irene (nee Williams from Tow Law) and daughter Janice, while I worked as a Fitter for the NCB at Bradley Shops in Leadgate. We emigrated to Canada from there in 1964.

A memory of Allendale Cottages in 1963 by Kenneth Barron

Seeing this photograph reminded me of the name by which we used to know this site, namely 'The Hut Grounds'. Nowadays it is mostly referred to as 'Bradda Glen Cafe', but in my childhood it was 'The Hut Grounds'! In the height of ...Read more

A memory of Port Erin in 1962 by Anthony Archibald

I have just found this site and was amazed at the photo of the Welfare Hall circa 1960. My dad, Henry Dilkes, and his great friend Sid Robinson were the mainstays of the pantos in the early 1960s, with Henry ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe in 1962 by Robert Dilkes

In the late 1950s and 1960s we used to stay in a field halfway down the road into the village of Amroth and a lady called Connie owned a small farm, so we called it Connie's field. At first we used to just camp then later Dad got a ...Read more

A memory of Amroth in 1960 by Issy Lawrence

The bike shop in Moor Street next to the central chip shop was Wilkinson's, also sold guns and fishing gear, got my maggots there for fishing in the nine locks, Pat Collins fair on the bank by Brierley Hill alliance ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill in 1960 by Alan Hinton