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Hi everyone , I was born in trem-y-gardden november 1960 but only lived there untill i was 6 months old , then my parents moved us up to the top end of pen-y-cae onto cristionydd , Now my memories of living there looking back ...Read more

A memory of Penycae in 1970

I can remember visiting my Aunty Myvanwy and Uncle Elvert Parry with my father in Rhes Y Cae (Mountain View just up the track from the Miners PH). Great times, sadly my father passed away but I recall walking from Bagillt across ...Read more

A memory of Rhes-y-Cae in 1974

We were the Brown family that grew up on Mr Bramley's Farm, Grove House Farm, off Long Lane, East Harlsey. My mother cleaned at the Cat & Bagpipes. We sometimes went with her in the school holidays. We went ...Read more

A memory of East Harlsey in 1860

Born in Glaskhill Terrace 1952, (McCutcheon) eldest of 6. Dad George a miner and Mum (Sarah) a full time job caring for us all,.The street had lots of of families who had moved through from Blantyre, Burnbank, for the pits ...Read more

A memory of Penicuik in 1957 by Carol King

Corsham to me was as much about the friends I grew up with as well as the prefabricated estate that  was my home. None of us were very rich or we would not have been placed there but then we were living in an era that was so different ...Read more

A memory of Corsham in 1955 by Tom Wright

I was born on Gibb lane near Mount Tabor, there was a water pump outside the houses where my mother used to have to go outside for water at one time My uncle Norman Jones was the curator at Bankfield Museum for a year or two. He had 2 sons ,Stuart and Raymond and a daughter Barbara.

A memory of Halifax by William Marshall

One of my first memories was hiding underneath the sideboard in the dining room with silver ornaments on our heads; my sisters Judy, baby Michele and myself, Deirdre, ...Read more

A memory of Holywood in 1930 by Deirdre Sarnitz

I lived in Dunston from 1946-1964. This area of Dunston was a place I knew quite well. The lamp post on the left was almost outside a dental surgery. I well remember the experience of having a tooth extracted here, and the ...Read more

A memory of Dunston in 1950 by Malcolm Cowley

I first went to Zeals at the age of about 4 months, my grandparents lived in the row of cottages on Tulse hill. My grandparents where Mr and Mrs Hicks, with them lived my aunt who still lives there to-day, Phillys ...Read more

A memory of Zeals in 1952 by Ronald Taylor

I remember going to Mrs Howes sweet shop and buying a pennies worth of sherbert and eating it on the way home from school via the backfields. Going down to the vicarage and swimming in the river. Getting a bag of stale cakes ...Read more

A memory of Sutton at Hone in 1953 by Rod Smith