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In 1956 I came to work in Scotland having been transferred from Yorkshire by the NCB. I needed a house and the semi derelict house known as Roanshead House was available, but boarded up and was not on mains electricity. My wife and ...Read more

A memory of Easthouses in 1957 by Douglas Jenkinson

I went Brimington Boys School, off Springvale Road, from Sept 1957 to July 1961. I must say that I enjoyed my secondary education, made loads of friends, and liked most of the teachers, apart from Thrack ...Read more

A memory of Brimington in 1957 by Dave Allen

My great grandparents Samuel and Emily Broome lived at 12 Bradshaw Lane, Parbold during the 1950s and until his death in 1960. They had 9 children, my grandmother Mary being their sixth child. Every Sunday, Broomes from ...Read more

A memory of Parbold in 1959 by Linda Thornhill

I was born in Wallace Street, Dumbarton, August 13th 1959 in my grandparent's (Andrew and Mabel Aitken) house named "Bourtree". My other grandparents (Jim and Margaret Brash) lived directly across the road in their house ...Read more

A memory of Dumbarton in 1959 by Gordon Aitken

I was born in Newton Abbot 1952. My brother John and I went to Bearnes School until John left to go to a new school above our home in Penn Inn Close. We left Newton Abbot when I was about 6 years old and moved to Bedfordshire. I ...Read more

A memory of Newton Abbot in 1956 by Jacqueline Wood

I was born in St Albans in 1946 and lived at a cottage called Primrose Cottage, The Hill, Wheathampstead. My grandmother lived in the cottage, Wayside Cottage, on the hill which still exists today. My ...Read more

A memory of Wheathampstead in 1950 by Alan Riddell

Lived early days on Cheetham Street before moving away to Old Trafford, then Newton Heath, but then in 1960 Mam and Dad bought the hardware shop under the 'Verandah' on Lower Broughton Road (close to Frederick Road crossroad). Guy's ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1953

I am writing about my memories of Glentrool. I lived at number 3 Glentrool near the teacher's house in a bonnie wee house. Mrs Mckay was our next door neighbour. I enjoyed it when the wood cutters were working with the shire ...Read more

A memory of Glentrool Village in 1959 by James Macpherson

I was born in St Catherine's Hospital during 1943 and spent the next 22 years living right across the street from it until I emigrated to Canada in 1965. I can remember my mother, my sister and I walking along Derby Road ...Read more

A memory of Tranmere in 1950 by Angela Rickett (Nee Kavanagh)

It was 1958 and I had just left school at Walbottle Secondary. Me and my best pal Wes Coulthard (who I'm sad to say has since passed away) went on our first holiday together before starting down the Pit. We went with his parents Jimmy and ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1958 by Jimmy Burrows