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My grandparents come from Elsecar and Wentworth, in Mill Lane, you may have seen the Roundhouse,Can`t miss it really just up from Pondside. When my real grandad died my grandmother remarried a man named Stanley Horn from Harley. ...Read more

A memory of Elsecar in 1952 by Susan Sutton

I too have happy and sad memories of Thurnscoe. I started school in 1952 at Hill Infants. Mrs Cartlidge was our teacher. I still remember where I sat behind the door and being given a small blackboard and chalk on my first day ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe in 1952

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 lived in Thicket Grove which had the Thicket public house at the top. Crystal Palace Park was a very short walk away. During the school holidays we would spend our days in the park. Mum would pack us a picnic ...Read more

A memory of Crystal Palace in 1953 by Maureen Langley

On returning from the Middle East, my family holed up across the water at Fawley. A big city was very exciting for me and after getting off the Hythe Ferry it was all bomb craters up to about the Dolphin. Above Bar ...Read more

A memory of Southampton in 1954 by Jeannette Lomas

The Anson family arrived at Strensall in 1957. My father was at the camp as a 'skill at arms' instructor until 1959 attached to the K.O.Y.L.I. I can remember the first day at school in Strensall village.I caught the bus which ...Read more

A memory of Strensall in 1957 by Kathryn Anson

My dad was posted from Strensall in Yorkshire to Nescliffe in the beginning of 1959. We took a steam train to Shrewsbury, then a bus to Nescliffe. At night the family of 3, plus cat in a basket, plodded across a ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1959 by Kathryn Anson

I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned ...Read more

A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by Donald Rumbold

I remember watching Brinny play home and away with my cousin Ronnie. We used to get a lift off Ken Dean, the manager (and local barber). The team was the best Sunday league side in Stockport; Reg Adie in goal, Roy ...Read more

A memory of Brinnington in 1959 by Phil Marsh

My grandfather, Reginald Dean, of 130 Bridge Road, Oulton Broad, used to moor his boat- the Eel- in the Staithe. I used to walk there ever day with him to pump it out and make a brew in the summer holidays. his pipe kept the mossies at bay. Great times.

A memory of Broads, The in 1956 by Nigel Dean