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I lived in Hornsey up until 1960, I attended St Mary's School, Priory Rd (Hornsey High street?) I finished with school there in 1950 and was there four or five years? I think the headmaster was Mr Ball(?) There was a music teacher ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1950 by Ken Phillips

I lived in Rodley but learnt to dance at Porritts.Remember walking home across the field at the back of dance hall ( now housing estate), coming out near the mill then down Bagley Lane. Near the bottom there is a ginnel up lots of steps which ...Read more

A memory of Farsley in 1956 by Sylvia Hardwick

The name of the cinema at the top of Batley Carr was the Collins. I went there many times as a lad. I lived on Upper Cross Street on Bradford Road near the bottom of Mill Road.

A memory of Batley Carr in 1958 by Arthur Mortimer

The old Miners Hall was my local library, I spent many happy hours in there not only browsing the bookshelves but talking to some of the old retired miners that met there most days. My Great Uncle was Alf Palfreman who was a councilor ...Read more

A memory of Ogmore Vale in 1950 by Patricia Morris

I first came to Whitstable by steam train in 1952 with my mother and grandparents, and we stayed in a boarding house in Cromwell Road, I think. After that we came to Whitstable every year for two weeks in September, staying ...Read more

A memory of Whitstable in 1954 by Allan Crawley

I was born in No 6 Pretoria Street in 1944 remember playing 'touch & pass' on cinders at top of the street near Ossies field. Fred Perry, Terry Jepson, Jud Gray, Les Lockett, Jud Watton & many more. We were always ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1950 by Ray Safhill

My name is Arthur Boyden, I was born in Stirling St, Old Monkland in 1940, but I remember the 50's. I went to St. Augustins Primary School then to St. Mary's in the Whifflet till I was 15. My first job, Frank Collins ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge in 1950 by Arthur Boyden

In the late fifties I went to the Cathedral School in Chelmsford and we lived in Rainsford Road then. Sometimes after school I would come home via New Street, and also later in the sixties when I went to the Grammar School. There ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford in 1959 by Alan Hart

I lived as a child in Down Road, Alveston (at Barton Cottage - now demolished) from 1959 to 1964 and have great memories of Thornbury. Having no car in those days the family would march down the hill into Thornbury to Mass on ...Read more

A memory of Thornbury in 1959 by Paul Martin

I was quite an accomplished swimmer in my youth, and after a session in the swimming baths, we would call in at Mescia's for a coffee or a milk shake. There was another Coffee Bar opposite (I can't remember its name now) but Mescia's was always the first choice for me and my pals.

A memory of Hyde in 1956 by Ken Foley