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My Great Grandparents, Jim and Elizabeth Grindrod, lived at 10 Sydney Street, along with my Grandfather, Brian Grindrod, and my Great Great Grandparents, Michael York and Lily York. From the 1930s- late 1940s, Jim was a Grocer's ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth by Bradley Walker

I was there in 1982 or 83 (can't remember that clearly) for maybe 6 months. I was 8. I have similar memories to other commenters of the people who stood out there. There was a school on site. The P.E. teacher, made us ...Read more

A memory of Bramcote

I remember staying at the hospital and going to Heswall beach and playing on the aeroplane in the back garden at the hospital,it was about 1965

A memory of Heswall by Barry Ford

Started out as isolation hospital for scarlet fever(?) Used as nurses hostel for nurses from Cliveden, they were taken by coach, was at the back of site, backed onto Aspros( later Sara Lee?) factory, they built Westgate School on e ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by Dave Hill

I was born in Amersham Hospital in 1956. It should have been the Shrubbery, but it was full on the day I decided I had had enough of the womb. Cut to the mid 60's and I'm a student at Crown House Primary in London ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe by Hugh Bristow

Starting when I was eleven I was a patient over 5 years for three spells, 2 years, 18 months and 9 months with an infected hip joint which became a deep routed abscess. Many different ‘ new’ antibiotics were tried ...Read more

A memory of Alton by Graham Farrow

I was stationed at Lakenheath from 1965 until 1968. I was a member of the 1979th Communications Squadron. While there, I was on the base softball team. We were realy good and won the UK Championship three consecutive years. Our ...Read more

A memory of Lakenheath by Thomas Plaisted

I used to live in Denmark square and I was 11 years of age. My friend Donna Meek lived in the army quarters. We used to adventure out behind the Cambridge hospital, were there was clear signs of bunkers that had been bombed, the ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by Sharon Mc Cabe

This once sleepy hamlet was first home to me, a better place for childhood there could not be. Little Drayton church and it`s `olde` Sunday school. fishing excursions with Uncle to Buntingsdale pool, Dalelands ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

I spent most weekends and school holidays in my Nan's little caravan on Pantymwyn Caravan Park from about 1974. I remember going to Mr Rich's for a gas bottle, going to the water stand as Nan's van was a little old thing lit ...Read more

A memory of Pantymwyn by Sandra Loftus