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I was at Newburn Hall school in Lemington from 1940 to 1951 and I was wondering if anyone knows any of my class mates that attended with me or what has become of them. Eddie Ormston, Billy Smith, Ronny Curry, Billy Edwards, Jim ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1950 by George Ritson

I moved from Holbeck in 1948 into one of the first estates to be built in North West Leeds, Ireland Wood (Raynels). In 1950 I went to Cookridge School, then a wooden hut right slap bang opposite where Cookridge ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge in 1950 by Paul Leavett

I can remember Coronation Day in Shillingstone, the weather was not settled and there were showers, I can remember watching the crowning of the Queen on a TV which was in Mrs Fudge's house ...Read more

A memory of Shillingstone in 1953 by Brian Newman

As my parents were abroad I was placed here during school holidays for two years. Mr and Mrs Riedel. Have so many photos and memories of all the children were there also. Rosalind, Irene, Marie Elizabeth, Peter Eder, Paul and so ...Read more

A memory of North Molton in 1957 by Peter Harris

I used to work in the Laboratory at Creaton Sanatorium. It was my first job after leaving Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. I started in the Lab at Northampton General Hospital and was transferred to Creaton. I used to cycle to ...Read more

A memory of Creaton in 1953 by Nial Reynolds

A group of us lads from Muswell Hill in North London used to cycle to Ashwell on a weekend to visit one of our mates who moved there with his mum, his name was Peter and his mum was housekeeper at the Manor House where we ...Read more

A memory of Ashwell in 1959 by Arthur Elliott

One of three sons, Peter Came a local historian and former pupil of Danbury Infants and Juniors School who later became a teacher at Maldon School wrote extensively about the village in preparation for a book which ...Read more

A memory of Danbury in 1950

I have many happy memories of Friday, Saturday and (I think) Sunday nights learning to dance at The Majestic, run by  Don Stevoni and his wife Pat (I think her professional name was Chandler the same as my maiden name, but ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1959 by Pam White

Hello, I was born at Franks Hall in Horten, Kirby in 1940, moved to Dartfod 1941, to Waldeck Road and went to St Albans Infants then York Road Juniors then to Dartford East. I have good memories of ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1950 by Brian Trimmer

I lived in Derby Street, Lower Broughton from my birth in 1944 until we moved to Little Hulton in 1954. I remember the Coopers living there too, Billy and Garry Cooper. They lived a few doors away from the ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1954 by Anne Radcliffe