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All of us who attended Kirkheaton Church and Sunday School looked forward to the Whit Tuesday Walk around the village behind the Grange Moor Band. We would all contribute cakes or sandwiches for tea, to be eaten in ...Read more

A memory of Kirkheaton in 1958 by Ann Steele

I learned to bell ring with Brian Heginbottom in the 50s. After many years of the bells not ringing we were able to repair the the bell room and the bells and rang for the millennium, they are now rang every Sunday, they have a ...Read more

A memory of Whitworth in 1952 by Ian Holmes

I remember the restaurant at the United Dairies in Walton where I used to have lunch.

A memory of Walton-on-Thames in 1957 by Peter Coleman

I was born in Orsett at the Bothy Prince Charles Avenue in 1955. I Lived at the Armary (Orsett Hall) until 1965, when our family moved to Rectory Road in the village. The Cuthbert's have a long history in Orsett with my mother and ...Read more

A memory of Orsett in 1955 by Malcolm Cuthbert

I was in St Giles Hospital, Camberwell, and was transferred to Lord Mayor Treloars Orphopaedic Hospital, Alton because the surgeon was a good friend of the main Consultant Surgeon at Alton who was, I think Mr ...Read more

A memory of Alton in 1959 by David Motuel

School on left, Westgate wasn't the only school but it is the only one I never went to. Below was the Primary and Junior, this was the Senior till 1953 when Haymill was built. Whilst building it was Junior but when finished became ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1950 by Dave Hill

our family ( from Bradford ) , me and 2 sisters rented one of the chalets at the end of cliff road in the mid fifty's I think it was 2nd from left in on the cliff top .Can remember the garden getting shorter as the cliffs collapased ...Read more

A memory of Ulrome in 1954 by Andy Howard

I lived in Moira, Roughley about 1955. I was born in Moira in 1950. It was when the hospital was open, my dad was in the medical corp. I always remember Lady Mountbatten coming to the hospital, my younger sister ...Read more

A memory of Moira in 1955 by Deirdre Lillywhite

I was born in Tynemouth, in Percy Park, the road leading down to the sea by the Grand Hotel. In 1956, I began at Tynemouth Prep. School, now The Kings School, in Huntington Place. I live in Hampshire now, but, I have ...Read more

A memory of Tynemouth in 1955 by tonythecriminologist

My memories are of Okenden in the early days, my father was born there and was from a family of 11 children, he was called Arthur Oakley, he lived there when the local bobby walked the streets pushing his pushbike, and if he did any ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1959 by Howard Oakley