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We went to stay at Plas-Y-Nant, Easter, Whit and Summer every year in the 50s. It was simply wonderful. Yes, I remember Auntie Lena and the whole range of little customs and practices we willingly engaged in. Not the least ...Read more

A memory of Betws Garmon in 1955 by Derek West

The road down to the shore was built for gravel extraction with the washing plant on the level ground just below where this shot was taken from. The building shown was a cafe. On the other side of the road ...Read more

A memory of Reighton in 1955 by Bill Rice

My family moved to Rugeley in 1954 from Northumberland. Dad worked at Brereton Colliery and Mum at Birmid Metals. I attended Aelgar school and about that time got my first job delivering newspapers for the 'Burnthill Press' (Market ...Read more

A memory of Rugeley in 1955 by Kenneth Rochester

We moved to Park Farm Kettlethorpe when I was 7. The family at this time was reduced to Mum and Dad, Eileen, Brian, Maureen and Gillian. At first we lived in a semi detatched house at the top of ...Read more

A memory of Kettlethorpe in 1955 by Gillian Emerton

After getting off the bus from New Haw we would walk to Nan & Grandad's house. Passing over the crossing there was Wells Boot Stores on the right just before Alexandra Road. Down here, over the river, the Laundry and ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1955 by Michael Ponting

I was 8 years old when this picture was taken. It is hard to express how evocative this innocuous little picture is to me. Is that a box of tissues on the right?. Well this picture really set me off blubbing. At this ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst in 1955 by jeanhaedicke

I was eleven in this year 1954 and me and the lads were by this time avid collectors of anything, tab packets was top of most lists, we would scour the streets and gutters wherever we went for that elusive cardboard. The bins behind ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1954 by Jimmy Burrows

Stourfield Junior School was an attractive red brick building with a large playground and a football field in the 1950's. I went to school here between 1954 and 1956 and remember my time fondly. Long before ...Read more

A memory of Southbourne in 1954 by John Howard Norfolk

In 1954, as a 17 year old cashier bookkeeper, I started work for Mr Greenham, whose butcher's shop was near the top of Broad Street. Some years later (in 1958), I went to work at Brewer's, the ...Read more

A memory of Lyme Regis in 1954 by Rosemary Bennett

I was born, illegitimately, in Barony Hospital, Nantwich and lived in Church St, Crewe, moving to Cliffe Road when the "slum" houses were demolished and the police station was built there. I moved from my first school ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1954 by Lesley Spray