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Me and my friend Marilyn, went to Primary school together in London. Her dad was the manager of our local swimming baths. I was devastated when he was offered promotion, it was at a pool in Wallasey, called Guinea Gap Baths. This ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1960 by Sue Meek

Wallhill House is the correct title of this timber framed building and it is what you might say is the ancestral home of my family. Although none of my ancestors have lived in the property since some time after 1750 they were there ...Read more

A memory of Rushton Spencer by Andy Goodfellow

My name was Susan Ralphs and my brother is David and our grandfather ran the Fox Inn in the early 1950s and later retired to the cottage opposite the pub. David and I have many happy memories of staying ...Read more

A memory of Rushton Spencer in 1950 by Susan Robertson

Wolseley Bridge has some memories for me going back to late 1968 and throughout 1969 as I was a pupil at St Bede’s School in nearby Bishton Hall. My mother was matron at the time and as we were mother and son (father died in ...Read more

A memory of Wolseley Plain in 1969 by John Richard Jones

I lived in Lycett Road from 1955 to 1981, what a change! Mostly the quietness at night, no cars or buses, no people. The street lights went out at midnight. The building on the right was Woods, something to do with cars, ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1962 by Billy Hannah

In 1956 my late Grandfather, the Master Builder W Lloyd Bailey, and my late father, W Gary Bailey, were engaged in re-mortaring the church's exterior stonework. At the rear lies 3 ...Read more

A memory of Rushton Spencer in 1956 by Rob Bailey

My family name was Brewer and it seemed we went hop picking for ever. The last time was 1958. The following year my grandmother became ill and we could not go anymore. I was 12 the last time I went.  I have ...Read more

A memory of Yalding in 1958 by Patricia Seymour

I was 8 years old when I arrived in Blandford. It was lunchtime on a Sunday a week before the Somerset and Dorset Railway closed on the 6th March 1966. My dad was in the Royal Signals and he was being posted to the 30th ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp in 1966 by Raymond Parlett

In the late 1960’s I was a pupil at a nearby preparatory school (Bishton Hall) and used to enjoy walking via Colton to Rugeley as well as the main A51. Walking up towards Admaston was a bit far as I was only eight years old but I ...Read more

A memory of Rugeley by John Richard Jones

We moved to Sutton in 1956/7, Sutton Court Road, and I attended Sutton East before moving to Worcester Road and then going to Ambleside School in Cheam, then onto the Willows before completing my A-levels at Nonsuch High School for ...Read more

A memory of Sutton by Rita Westlake