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My mother and father lived in Evelyn Road - the cul-de-sac opposite the large white house in the distance - mother still there - lived in two of the houses for all her eighty years - married the boy next door (well.. at the top of the cul- ...Read more

A memory of Ham in 1955 by John Clifford

My Mum and Dad moved into the village in the 1930's into a new house in Rogers Lane and lived there for 66 years.  My father was the village tailor working from a workshop in the back garden.  My mother was very ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Poges in 1950 by Vivien Halse

I was born in Farnborough and lived in Pinehurst Cottages until the age of six. My father, Charles Dunbar was an engineer at The Royal Aircraft Establishment. Later we moved to 166 Keith Lucas Road and later to 16 Fowler Road in ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1950 by Vyvyan Dunbar Campbell

I am Jean Jackson (now Jean Gwynne), I lived in Llafaes Estate from 1947, and I also remember David Mills and Mary Quinn, I moved to 19 Bryn Teg when I was 6 and became a member of the Morris Dancing Team, other people I remember ...Read more

A memory of Beaumaris in 1955 by Jean Gwynne

As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more

A memory of Talke in 1959

I live in Hull but often went to stay at my grandparents (Bartlett) at 111 Corporation Road, Darlington as a child in the early 1950s and next door lived a lovely family and I used to play with their daughter Catherine. They had sons as ...Read more

A memory of Darlington in 1958 by Anne Kettley

Mr Purvis the butcher, whose shop stood on the corner of Talke and Audley Roads, was my Saturday morning employer. He always wore a striped apron and a straw boater hat and sported a rather slick moustache. His manner with the ...Read more

A memory of Alsager in 1954 by Derek Marlow

I well remember Pardoe's for the new bikes it sold and the fireworks sold there when the war finished. I worked Saturday mornings at the butcher shop next door, delivering meat around the village, Russell ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1955 by Mike Odell

This used to be a very busy street, with the Coop Store, butchers and the office at the back of the butchers, also the coal yard at the back. I worked at the Coop 1957 to 1963, very happy times. In the winter, the ...Read more

A memory of Moulton in 1957 by Jackie Tyrrell

My brother and I spent very important years in Theydon Bois. We were only there for 5 years but they were probably the most formative. It was a very simple village. There was the school, far too small for the many children ...Read more

A memory of Theydon Bois in 1953 by Lesley Parry