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I remember living on Coke Street when we first came to live in Woodhouse from Sheffield. I remember going to Annie shop on the end of our street. The Rocks as we called it. Going to paling coal yard in the corner getting ...Read more

A memory of Mansfield Woodhouse by Carole Anne Cantrell

I was about 5 when my mum and dad moved us to Sandiacre from Nth Wingfield around 1955, we Loved our new council house in Coronation Avenue, my grandma and grandad lived in the first house on the ...Read more

A memory of Sandiacre by Jean Mc Donald Née Hammond

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

My dad Lyndon is originally from Gilfach Goch, his dad was called Bill (Billy the book), his mum was Ivy and his sisters are Phylis, Tisha and Doreen, his brother was called Gwylim. They lived in Windham Street and then moved to ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1955 by Nicola Skelton

I think my first memory of going to the Lyceum theatre was to see Harry Seacome in the Christmas Pantomime of around 1949, but the highlight for me when I was invited to be a cast member in "Song of Norway" put on by the ...Read more

A memory of Sheffield in 1954 by Gordon Lawton

I found this site through a link on another, which had pictures of old buses - http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/?cat=51 I commented there on some of the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport fleet, which my dad used to drive. I was born in ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury in 1974 by Gordon Sharpe

The tree was hotel. A ship. Sheffield Wedneday boat A tin bath.

A memory of Crane Moor in 1960 by Sandra Shires

Can't be too specific about the year, just know I was young. Perhaps we'd not been long in our house on Carr Lane, having lived in Dronfield before. What a treasure this house was, running water, separate bedrooms ...Read more

A memory of Dronfield Woodhouse in 1956 by Raymond Gee

Born 1937 Kiveton family. Remeber getting on the bikes with my friends, riding over what we called the little hills down the pit lane to the tunnel top. Carrying an old clothes horse and a blanket, that was our tent. ...Read more

A memory of Kiveton Park in 1940 by Dorothy Sankey

My elder brother, Alan Crook, and I were evacuated from Sheffield during the blitz of, I think, 1941. We stayed, as far as I can recall, in a large house, I believe the Manse, attached to ...Read more

A memory of Normanton in 1940 by Mavis Heeley