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As you proceed north along the A34 towards the Cheshire border you will approach Talke traffic lights and on the left and right side of the road there are two areas of grassed land. This grassed area was once the village of ...Read more

A memory of Talke in 1959

The WWI tank was removed because little boys used to enter and use it as a toilet. It exploded when the welder went to work on it because there was still petrol in the fuel tank, not ammunition. The welder flew across Kingsbury and landed, ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury in 1956 by Doug Caton

This hotel was owned by my mother Patricia Woods till around 1959. Newnham was a busy place then. H G Zeal had a thermometer factory in the High Street. Above the hotel was a dairy farm run by A.Jones (Dean Forest farm). As a matter ...Read more

A memory of Newnham in 1956 by Rai Woods

This is what Dad had to say when I emailed him this site and the photos from 1955. Dad lived in Oakley from childhood until 1987, when as a family we moved to Adelaide Australia. I myself lived in the village from ...Read more

A memory of Oakley in 1955 by Gary Dean

Ah yes, I remember it well.  It was magical to go there and dance the evening away.  So many great bands in the 50's.  The floor was great, the music super. I learned to dance at a place called Quinns dance school near ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1950 by Pauline Wells/Neff

Growing up in Galley Common was the best part of my life. Dad was the manager of the bus depot, Bunty Motors I think it was called, at the bottom of Hickman Road, I lived at 66 Hickman Road. In the summer a lot of us ...Read more

A memory of Galley Common in 1959 by [Chris] Rick Green

The stream in front of the war memorial ran down to the Browney river a few hundred yards below the Dean, where half of the Witton school kids learned to swim in deep pools created by dams made by Harry Bell and Davy Reynolds, ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1954 by David Leckenby

My first real memory of Belvedere was that of starting school at St Augustines Primary around 1954. I can recall a wind up gramaphone which the teacher would frantically wind up to keep the music playing, even a funny ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere in 1950 by Ken Mulley

I arrived in 1953 to live with my father and stepmother in Marbury. I have very mixed feelings of my life here. The countryside was beautiful, my love of nature and animal life has never left me. Bill's lawns (our name for the ...Read more

A memory of Marbury in 1953 by Robert Chambers

My aunt and uncle - Mr and Mrs George Pratt - used to manage the market gardens in Escrick. We had many happy holidays there, and I remember the peaches and apricots growing up the wall, rows and rows of ...Read more

A memory of Escrick in 1950 by First Name Last Name