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Hi, I just stumbled on this fabulous site as I was trying to find some photos of the Duppas Hil Lane area. I lived at number 23 Duppas Hill Terrace from around 1963-71 and I would have been 12 or 13 ish when the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Simon Harlow Chalton

I spent some of the happiest years of my life in Harrogate, working in "The Grange" hotel (an old peoples home basically, along West Stray), I also worked in "Blind Jacks" behind the Prospect Hotel (we sold Old Peculiar ale and ...Read more

A memory of Harrogate by bornawkward

I was bike boy for Morris & Davis Butchers. Then went to Warringtons as a bricklayer. In 1968 I went to the Shell, 32 years later took early retirement.

A memory of Ellesmere Port in 1962 by John Burford

I was a 13 year old boy from Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. My father was a Sergeant in the US Air Force, assigned to Burtonwood RAF Station. We rented a flat at 35 London Rd, Stockton Heath. It ...Read more

A memory of Stockton Heath in 1956 by Jay Wilcox

Hello people of old Goose Green, I was born at the Half-way House on Ormskirk Road, Pemberton. In 1954 we moved and came into a brand new council house in Walpole Ave at the far end of St.Paul's Ave and ...Read more

A memory of Goose Green in 1955 by Alan Winstanley

I was born in the bottom house in Marsh Lane, in 1931. I came from a family of six boys and four girls. My father, was called John, and my mother, Sarah. I went to Halton School. There was a sweet shop at the top of our ...Read more

A memory of Astmoor in 1930 by Cliff Palin

I have very happy memories of my early years in Litherland. We lived at number 14 Beach Road until July 1971 when we moved (due to demolition) out to Warrington. I met my best friend (of 51 years) there Barbara from number 4 and we ...Read more

A memory of Litherland in 1971

Although I was born at 96 Manchester Road, I too remember Beaconsfield Street very well as my aunt and uncle lived there. Doe's anyone remember The Brownbills? I went to the Church School in the next street, before moving on to ...Read more

A memory of Prescot in 1930 by Richard Ball

My Mother and I arrived in 1974, from a divorced Warrington and the dilapidation of the north-west. Merrily drinking tea and eating custard tarts in the bare miners' cottage living room, sitting in a deck chair and eating from a ...Read more

A memory of Gwespyr in 1977 by James Harrison

The year 1977 onwards we lived in Barwick, we were called Fletcher and related to the Kirks who were builders on Potterton Lane. My grandma lived next door opposite the churchyard. My mother Betty was a Kirk. We played footy ...Read more

A memory of Potterton in 1977 by Darren Simpson