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Seeing this photo of the Swimming Pool brings back so many memories. It was where I took my Life Saving Certificate, and where we spent day after day with our friends and family. The day we moved to Prestatyn in ...Read more

A memory of Prestatyn in 1958 by Katey Mc Michael

A 14 year old brought to the top of Longmore Avenue from the Thanet beaches! Cycling down to the village - walking with bike back up after the first third - so steep the gradient! Peter, Edna, June and Douglas ...Read more

A memory of East End Green in 1958 by Sandra Dudley

I lived in Robin Hood Road, Sheepridge. Joined the Army in 1958 and came to Australia in 1968, and now live in the most expensive place on the planet. I wonder what happened to the people at Deighton County Secondary Modern ...Read more

A memory of Brighouse in 1958 by Ron Taylor

I worked as a pre student nurse at the children's home. We took children from the West Yorkshire area suffering from Asthma and Eczema. Children from the age of 2 yrs until 12 yrs. A very strict Matron, scary in fact. ...Read more

A memory of Hornsea in 1958

My gran bought 3 caravans in 1957 which were on the caravan site at Lower Largo.  My parents, brother, me, my aunt, my uncle and their 2 children all spent all our holidays there - summer, easter, bank hols, etc. Us children ...Read more

A memory of Lower Largo in 1957 by Maureen Drake

I was 6 years old and had had bronchitis and asthma and so I was sent away from smoggy London to St Mary's Home in Broadstairs. I was taken with other young children on a train by a nurse in a brown uniform. ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1957 by Tessa Farthing

I was five and lived on Links Road where my father had a grocer's shop. I was able to run down the burn path to the beach to swim in the sea or play in paddling pool. We would go to the summer shows in the Beach pavillion or ...Read more

A memory of Leven in 1957 by Dorothy Millar

Wonderful memories of Greatstone. My fifth birthday. A picnic on the vast sandy beach, playing hide & seek in the sand dunes, swimming in the sea-the water I recall was rather murky & the beach very muddy when ...Read more

A memory of Greatstone-on-Sea in 1957 by Pauline Biddlecombe

I used to play in the castle and what we thought were dungeons in the middle to late 1950s. It was our playground for many years. We went to the beach nearly every day summer or winter. Loved the place to bits. My ...Read more

A memory of Kirkcaldy in 1957 by Jane Wilkinson

Parents in the (old) Kinmel Arms, boozing over an extended lunch time - my brother and me exiled to the adjoining Stoney Beach where we passed the hours away crushing the softer red stones ...Read more

A memory of Moelfre in 1957 by John Kandel