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Hello I was at Port Regis between 1953 - 1955 I was 7 when I got there and left just before my 10th birthday. Was anyone else at Port Regis, Broadstairs when it was a convent for ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1955 by Rita Faith Pilbrow Carlson

This is August 1953, I was 10. We were playing cricket on the clay field with some older lads, the stumps were iron and came from Spencers steel works which was nearby and stuff like this was easily got. Anyway I remember it was ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

Kirkheaton was such a great place to live, I went to infant school at the bottom of Fields Way (I lived on Fields Way till I was 19 years old), I also went to Kirkheaton C of E School and can remember most of the ...Read more

A memory of Kirkheaton in 1956 by Christine Walker

I remember the Manor pub, it used to have an air raid warning siren on the building. I remember hearing it once, testing it I think as the year was about 1956. I too remember the tea van which had an awning on it in the rain. As ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1956 by Lynne Bacon

When I was a boy, does anyone remember the Cocozza's who had the cafe in Craigneuk? The old man used to have a cycle with an attachment to carry ice-cream for sale in the Craigneuk area. I seem to remember that Mario Lanza ...Read more

A memory of Wishaw in 1953 by Peter Chalmers

My grandparents, Horald and Edith Hughes, lived in Moston Cottage, Booley. Also living in the cottage were 3 of their sons; John, Douglas and Tony. My father, Basil, was no longer living at home. John and Douglas worked on the ...Read more

A memory of Moston in 1957 by Liz Proudman

I have fond memories of visiting our grandparents on our mother's side, who lived at number 8. We recited the "ABC" streets and I can remember Smythes the cake shop at the top of the street, where we bought Snowball cakes from. We ...Read more

A memory of Sunderland in 1953 by Janet Dean

Eeh! Remember potted meat? You could eat it as it was or put it on bread for a sandwich, where is it now? Then there was dripping which was quite solid and spread like margarine on your bread for sandwiches. I worked in Leeds on the ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1950 by Jimmy Burrows

I was born in Burnt Oak in July 1956 in North Road - the same house that my mother was born in.  My grandparents lived in North Road for many years until North Road, South Road and East Road were compulsory purchased by Barnet ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1956 by Sandra Gibney

I was born and brought up in Newbiggin by the Sea, till I left for Scotland  in 1998. All my family is buried in St Bartholomews', Taylors, Clark, Arkle, Dunn, Peel, Maughan, just to mention a few. My granda was called Jimmy ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin in 1956 by Janice Glendinning Nee Peel