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I grew up in Torrington & my family still live there and I love to visit the Commons. My godfather Bob Cudmore who lived in Well Street all his life used to tell me so much history, I could listen to him for ...Read more

A memory of Great Torrington by Charlotte Buckley

Does anyone remember the Cooper family who lived in Bickley Street from the early forties until the early sixties, or the Wharfe family that lived in Hereward Road? Or any memories you have of the Tooting Granada from the late forties to the late fifties.

A memory of Tooting in 1943

Where do I begin? I have titled this memory thus and placed it in about 1960, because that's the most accurate I can make it. Ida (my mum) pushing me in a pram up the 'Cliff' to the wood yard, that used to be up by the ...Read more

A memory of Draycott in 1960

my memory is also asking for information. Does anyone remember {this will be for the older generation} a mother and baby home not far from the station its common name was Berkley House but it also had a catholic name ,it was just off ...Read more

A memory of Crosby

My memory and the memory of my 2 sisters was horrendous, it was like consentration camp. They would force you to eat dinners you did not like and if you didn't eat it you would be made to sit all night on the floor no covers ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by donnastafford77

I went to St John's too. I think Mrs Moore was my first teacher, I remember playing in the Wendy House. I also remember Mrs Burgess, Mrs Haliwell, Mrs Varney, Mrs Ibbotson and Mr Sanderson. There is one teacher ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth in 1860 by June Simpson

I was born 1945, lived with my mum and dad in one room at back of my granparent's house, 67 Monington Cres, which had a huge back garden. It backed on to the Parkway and I had many great times there. We would go ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1955 by Keithy Turner

Anybody remember my old uncle Nathaniel (Watkin) who used to live at the Green Cottage, the Green, Manafon? He was Church warden for many years, a real old Montgomeryshire character, fondly remembered even though he died in ...Read more

A memory of Manafon by Brian Bennett

Hi, I was looking on the site reminising about my father, Malcolm LLoyd who lived at 156 Marine Street with my grandparents, Walter and Dilys LLoyd until he married my mother, Monica Buckley (from Newtown, Ebbw ...Read more

A memory of Cwm by Samantha Lilley

Netherthong Industrial & Equitable Co-operative Society Some of the first co-operatives were set up in the Holmfirth area well before the Rochdale Pioneers. In 1827 spinners, twisters, weavers, ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong by Michael Meitiner