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My parents were from Northumberland; my father from Newcastle and my mother from Slayley. They moved to London during the 30s to seek work. They married in 1939 and my sister was born that November. By September my mother was ...Read more

A memory of Shotley Bridge by williamfairney

My memory is of Shotley bridge hospital in May 1960 I was four years old and had been born with a hole in the heart. I was token by ambulance to shotley bridge to have my heart surgery. There was no children ward in the ...Read more

A memory of Shotley Bridge by stevie21055

In 1940 aged fourteen I was put on a hospital-train from Norwich to Shotley Bridge Hospital.it was mainly full of wounded soldiers from the Dunkirk retreat. No reason was ever given for my being sent to Shotley. The ...Read more

A memory of Shotley Bridge by antonyhayman

Dovercourt was my childhood/boyhood home from my birth (well, almost - that momentous event actually took place in an Ipswich nursing home!) in 1937, until we moved as a family to Worthing around 1952. I attended the Hill ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1940 by Ian Newton

I was born at Richard Murray Hospital at Shotley Bridge, County Durham on 09/07/1942. My parents Winnie and Jack Kershaw, my mam's maiden name was Burnhope and my dad's family were the Kershaws, ...Read more

A memory of Leadgate in 1942 by Ian Kershaw

I was in Ward 24 in 1961 and 1962. I remember Staff Carter, (who became Sister Carter), Sister Pinkerton, Nurse Beech, Staff Kendall ? I cannot remember many of the other patients with whom I shared about three months during October - December. Regards.

A memory of Shotley Bridge in 1962 by Adrian Percy

My late father, Rowland Leslie Williams, served with the Royal Artillery as a driver during the second world war. He served, in particular, with a Scottish Commando Regiment, although he was Welsh not ...Read more

A memory of Shotley Bridge in 1944 by Gordon Rhys Williams

I came from Ludlow in 1944 to live with a great aunt & uncle (when I was 13 months of age) in Priestmans Avenue. I started school at The Grove and have many good time memories with friends of that time. As you ...Read more

A memory of Consett in 1947 by Patricia Cade

Those were the days - loads of fun swimming in the so called "divvy" (river) at Shotley Bridge in the early fifties - different parts of the river namely; Leveys, Puddlers, chat ties, the dry ...Read more

A memory of Shotley Bridge in 1950 by Joan Sedgwick