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We used to live in the grounds of Riddings House in the cottage to the left of the main house. The two cottages used as accommodation for the head and assistant gardeners. I used to go with my dad up into the clock tower to wind up ...Read more

A memory of Riddings in 1954

One of my friends was Ivor Usher, and he had this unusual place of residence - Prudhoe Castle. Together we were able to run around the castle walls with our bows and arrows, catapults, etc... We didn't need much imagination to ...Read more

A memory of Prudhoe in 1952 by Alan Peel

I was in the WRAF at Coltishall, Norfolk and one of the other girls working in the control tower with me was Margaret Marshall from Jersey. Her family owned a hotel on the island and I was lucky enough to be invited for a holiday. ...Read more

A memory of Jersey in 1955 by Penny Goddard

I lived in the Tramway at the lower end probably No.2 with my parents and my great-grandparents. My Dadchu worked in the tower as a coal-miner and was a Deacon, and well thought of in Hirwaun, I am told. My parents, Gordon and Gwyneth ...Read more

A memory of Hirwaun in 1956 by Steve Gilvear

This picture shows clearly the row of small shops that greeted you as you left Freshfield Station on your walk to the village. Bowers (or was it Cross's) the bakers next to the railway track, baked their ...Read more

A memory of Freshfield in 1955 by Peter Roberts

Hi my name is David Waterfield and I lived in the Wyndham from approx 1949 to 1969 and often stopped in Blackmill to catch the red and white or Nand c coach up to the Gilfach to friends and have long been curious about the railway (?) ...Read more

A memory of Blackmill in 1956 by David Waterfield

I used to be a frequent visitor to Chorley Hall as a young boy accompanying my mother and grandmother. The Hall and farm were tenanted by Joe Davis and he married Annie Bower who was my grandmother's sister-in-law and hence my ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1953 by Nigel Wylde

My paternal grandmother, Kate Paine Whitbourn, was born in these cottages in 1896.  Her father was the head carpenter at Bisham Abbey. The Paine family had lived in Bisham for several generations. When I was little, Gran and ...Read more

A memory of Bisham in 1951 by Susanne Otto

During the early Second World War years there was considerable construction along the Barton beach and the cliff top to hinder any possible designs of the dastardly twins on our rural paradise. These constructions used to be a major ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1951 by Roger Williams

We moved to Romford in 1951 from Havering where we lived with Nan and Grandad in Pinewood Road. It was an exciting time for me but also an unhappy time leaving Nan and Grandad's house. We moved in a ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1951 by Helen Scott