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In the process of charting my family tree I discovered that my ancestors had lived in Low Kilburn during the 18th and 19th centuries. Thomas Gamble was a butcher and the family lived in the row of cottages at the other side of the pub ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by Janet Marsh

Scarborough holds so many happy memories for me as most of my family holidays were taken there. Having a kindly aunt and uncle to stay with made it the most enjoyable place to be. I still like to visit the old haunts ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough in 1950 by Margaret O'mahony

All our family holidays when I was a child were taken at Scarborough, where my parents and I stayed with two spinsters who were old family friends, in Whin Bank. I suppose I first went in the early 1960s, and my last visit ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough in 1968 by Jonathan Hutchins

My name is Lindsey Lewis (nee Overend). I was born in Horsforth 1971 and my parents,along with my two sisters, moved to Clarke Street in Calverley from Bramley when I was two weeks old. We were the first occupants of number 21 on the ...Read more

A memory of Calverley by Lindsey Lewis

We were always good friends the closest... Rosoland died quite young and I had moved from Croydon and settled where she had moved to years before. Hastings. I was born in 2 Stretton Road East Croydon. stones throw from ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Dianne Woollams

I remember a happy childhood, playing in the streets with my best friends Joyce Dean, Linda Perry & Maureen Beaumont amongst many, we had quite a large gang, playing rounders or sitting around telling ghost ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone by Hilary Hopton

Having been so lucky as to spend my childhood in a big house in Royal Avenue and spending many long summer evenings playing cricket on the beach with my grandad I have always wanted to return to Scarborough.  In particular the Zoo ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough in 1969 by Carol Best

Hello all you Yorkshire people, wherever you may now be... Here is a poem I wrote about good old York. Enjoy. Shopping in the Shambles on a snowy Christmas Eve Playing hide and seek in Acomb Wood Watching Andy Pandy by the fire in our ...Read more

A memory of York in 1955 by Anne England

My husband Chistopher John Hill was born in Scarborough. His Grandma, Mary Gloyne, ran a small Guest House there 61 Ramsey Street, after her husband, Percy Gloyne, was killed two days before the end of World War 1. She ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough by Margaret Ann Hill

Wow I can give loads of memories in the 60s Going down there with my parents. Ansty cove; Afternoon tea; Charity box on counter; As a black person supporting foreign aid; Put a coin on his hand twist his ear, coin went in. Also the gong ...Read more

A memory of Torquay by Derek Fletcher