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I was an apprentice jockey at Noel Cannon's Druids Lodge from 1953 when Festoon won the £1000 gns. The lads and us boys all won money that day as we knew she would win! As mentioned in a previous comment - we did know of 'Ray', who ...Read more

A memory of Druid's Lodge in 1953 by Brian Miller

That's my old grammar school and after a disastrous few years trying to learn something useful I eventually got a job with Renown Products in Woodbine Grove. They were manufacturers of pickled onions, vinegar,vacuum salt and various ...Read more

A memory of Penge in 1958 by Brian Read

Does anyone know of a Jean Wadsworth from Water Street, Colne..born in 1938. Married Richard Simpson in 1955.. Daughter of John Geoge Wadsowrth. She was my mother.. trying to trace her family.

A memory of Colne in 1953 by Mark Simpson

My paternal grandparents, William and Florence (Flo) Tripp, used to run the George pub; I believe they owned it. William died in an accident at the pub in about 1942. I remember going there as a small child in about 1950/51 ...Read more

A memory of Hurst Green in 1950 by Barbara Greening

My father would take me to watch the Brush football team play at home matches, one of my relatives played for them; his name was Stan Hodges. The ground was behind the Queens Park, I remember a narrow foot to the entrance where it ...Read more

A memory of Loughborough in 1952 by Michael Eric Wright

Burley Woodhead. We lived in Shotover from my birth in 1942 until approx 1957. My parents moved into the house and the village 1939. When my brother Roger was born in Bingley in 1946 I ...Read more

A memory of Burley in Wharfedale in 1950 by Michael Inman

My father used to take me to the Sunday market in the Broadway where they sold day old fluffy yellow chicks! I never got one despite my begging. Also remember the linen shop called Pecrys where the money whizzed around the ceiling ...Read more

A memory of Catford in 1950 by Rita Williamson

I was born in 1945 in my aunty's cottage in Searle Street, which ran from the corner of the Station Hotel below the railway line embankment where we would wave at steam trains as they went past. ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell in 1950 by Deidre Parry

My grandparents, Albert and Marjorie Walker, moved into the Red Lion in 1954. Following my grandfather's death in 1967 my grandmother continued as landlady until her retirement ...Read more

A memory of Lowick Bridge in 1954 by Angela Athersmith

I attended Annunciation, St. Thomas's (Stanmore) and, finally, St. James. I think that the education we were given there really prepared us for the rest of our lives. In my case, I ended up in the USA where I had a long career ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1956 by Michael Dennison