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Hello all, Joseph Howorth here. 1971 was a good year as I married my dear wife Linda (nee Grigg), we married in West Bromwich Registry Office on the High Street and next April 17th will be our 40th year ...Read more

A memory of West Bromwich in 1971 by Joseph Howorth

My name is Margaret.  I was born in Park Road, Sittingbourne on 18.4.45. My parents were Flossie and Cyril Neaves. My dad worked as a machine man in the Sittingbourne paper mills and my mum worked fruit picking in ...Read more

A memory of Sittingbourne in 1971 by namscox

My sister Kathleen Taylor (former name) was cook in the kitchen for the retired old ladies. I was always staying with her during school holidays. Her husband then (now deceased) was Barry Taylor and they had two children, Sarah born ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1970 by Stuart Mitchell

I was born in Fleetwood in 1947 but seemed to oscillate between there and Malaya for a number of years up to the age of 12 just before dad died. My first memories are of starting at Stella Maris convent and then ...Read more

A memory of Fleetwood in 1970 by Pat Corrigan

I was born in the middle cottage out of three which the Duke of Beaufort owned back those days, now they have been modernised to a high standard and are privately owned. I used to spend a lot of my time in the Seven Mile ...Read more

A memory of Petty France in 1970 by Terry Hewer

I was born in my grandad's back room, 39 Cecil Street, Coatbridge. My mum was Jeanie Young who married Johnny Mclean my dad. My grandad Billy Young was a character who was well known about Coatbridge, I remember a pub he used to ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge in 1970 by Lorraine Morris

I was born and bred in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, the eldest of three children. My memories of Ashby itself are snapshots from a time which now seems so old-fashioned that it as nostalgic as a Herriot novel. As a ...Read more

A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1970

What a place! If you're not born here, run for the hills! But I love it, I still see faces of long ago that do too, or why didn't we move away a long time ago!! My mum and dad were the best, I never got hit by them but ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1970 by Michael Jacob

I was born in Stepney and grew up in Hatherley Gardens. Fond memories of Brampton Junior School and especially Miss Aylward and Mr Price. Went on to the Grammar School and spent lunch wandering up and down the high street with a bag ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1970

To start I was actually born in Shaftesbury Avenue in 1960 but we moved to Florence Avenue when I was two years old, so I don't remember much about Shaftesbury Avenue. But I do have four older brothers who remember it very well. I ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1970