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My first daughter was born in Holbrook Jan 1958. The doctor I was registered with was in Somercotes, Derbyshire, but I lived in Westwood, Nottinghamshire. Problem at 11 oclock at night, I went into labour and called for the ambulance. ...Read more

A memory of Holbrook in 1958 by Sylvia Rhodes

I visited the nursery quite a lot, we knew the people who work there. I was only ten years old. I remembered the pub up the road, Duke of Marlborough. Where have the good memories gone, from Malcolm Read.

A memory of Ashford in 1959 by Malcolm Read

I was born in North Shields and know all the photos shown ...was my school holidays. I married my husband, a Northumberland Fusilier from Haltwhistle in January 1959 and in April we left from Newcastle on ...Read more

A memory of Tynemouth in 1959 by Patsy Norman Nee Quinn

Oh what a school to be educated in. Academic chances and great sports facilities. I classed myself as an average student,and one who was successful in Football and Cricket, representing the school in both, ...Read more

A memory of Abbots Ripton in 1952 by Neville Clark

We lived at Bury Meadows Farm, Roading Brook Road, Harwood near Bolton Lancs, by the time I'd written that down everybody else had been waiting ages at Bradshaw School. My sister Janet and I had many happy years at Bradshaw ...Read more

A memory of Great Harwood in 1959 by Dorothy Parker

First impressions of Corby We moved to Corby, then known as Corby New Town, in 1954, when I was 10. I hated it with a passion having been brought up in the country. Born in Suffolk, where my parents kept a pub in Elmswell, we ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1954 by Vivienne Hedges

My grandfather bought one of these ex-RAF officers bungalows after the Second World War so that the family could have a holiday base. In the B850004 photo, our bungalow is roughly alongside the white car you can see parked ...Read more

A memory of Barmston in 1953 by Peter Rodger

I used to be Vanda Shucksmith and I have very fond memories of Swallow, having moved there when I was five years old, we lived down Chapel Lane in one of Mr Bingham's farmworkers cottages. I had actually started school at Dunham on the ...Read more

A memory of Swallow in 1951 by Vanda Miller

I lived in Spring Road opposite Bengry's shop. I remember going to their bakery for my mother - hot bread to collect. I went to Meir Road School, Spooners was a local shop nearby. Brings back memories - doing paper boy job - ...Read more

A memory of Normacot in 1958 by Ronald Burton