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My memories of the Coronation-2nd June 1953 While I was studying at the Bridgend Preparatory and Commercial School two events happened which changed the course of history for Great Britain. In February ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig in 1953 by Catherine Delahay

I can't pinpoint the year exactly, but it was definitely a year or two before 1953 which was the year I left the UK. I and three friends, student nurses at a hospital in Essex, decided on a holiday in Scotland. We chose Dollarbeg as ...Read more

A memory of Dollar in 1951 by Thelma Hurly

I was based in Inverbervie from March 1957 till March 1958 with 977 Signals Unit of the Royal Air Force. 977 SU operated radar from an underground site on the hill a couple of miles north of the village. Height finding ...Read more

A memory of Inverbervie in 1957 by Martin Dilly

It was only two years or so, from 1959-61, aged 6-8, but it still seems as if the happiest period of my childhood in Latimer was one long, endless, glorious summer. My dad was in the army, in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, ...Read more

A memory of Latimer in 1959 by John Sayer

Does anyone have any school photos of the 1950s at Gretna Township School, later Gretna High School, Scotland?

A memory of Mossband Ho in 1955 by Francess Jones Formally Daugh

I lived at 51 Becah Road, Barassie, Troon. My step-father was in the U.S. Air Force and stationed at Prestwiick. I remember the gentleman who lived on the ground floor of our house. His name I think was George ...Read more

A memory of Troon in 1956 by Cheri Gardiner

My sister and I used to visit our grandparents, Harry and Lily Bliss, who lived on Sandringham Drive, West Monkseaton. We would come down from Scotland in late June and stay for two weeks. Favourite memories include the Spanish ...Read more

A memory of North Shields in 1958 by Carolynne Briggs

We lived on the RAF estate in Ickenham during the late 1950s, in a semi-detached house at 14 Nettleton Road. Every RAF home mirrored the next; their furnishings were also identical. You could move from Scotland to England (which we had ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham in 1957 by Mo Haarhoff

I was a pre - Nursing student at Daneswood for two years. I hailed from Bolton, Lancashire and it was my first time away from home and town. I fell in love with Woburn Sands and enjoyed my time at Daneswood, to ...Read more

A memory of Woburn Sands in 1958 by Kathleen Hagan

To visit Grandma and Grandad McCann we travelled this way from Ellesmere Port. They lived in Scotland Road and he had a cobbler shop.

A memory of Liverpool in 1955 by Edna Carson