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Please if anyone has information about my family from Wallington I would be so appreciative. Gordon was a postal worker in the early 50's to 60's I know. We found the street address of Montagu Gardens on a used envelope in a ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1960 by M.L. Acott

These barracks were used as the recruit training centre for the Territorial Army and all volunteers serving with the 33rd (Lancashire and Cheshire) Signal Regiment completed basic training here in the 1960's before passing out to ...Read more

A memory of Huyton in 1967 by John Howard Norfolk

I've remembered those names. Bob's name was Corrie; Wilf was Wilf Myers, they were two of three Overmen (Deputies) at Haile Moor. The third was big Alf Varah. A gentleman called Chris Gibson sent me a message ...Read more

A memory of Thornhill in 1961 by Geoff Potts

I was born on High Street in Treorchy in 1959 in the house that belonged to my grandparents and that my mother still lives in today! We moved to Stafford in 1962 for work for my Dad but came to visit Treorchy a few times a year. I ...Read more

A memory of Treorchy in 1969 by Ellen Lockley

I have fond memories of Freefolk. I stayed at Freefolk Priors with my Aunt Babs and her three boys around about 1963. We would go down there for the duration of the school holidays and stay in her little house which overlooked the ...Read more

A memory of Freefolk in 1963 by Kathy Jones

I have very happy memories of Hazel and I looking after the Eight Bells for Jack and Sylvia when they went on holiday. This was for a few years in the late 60's and early 70's. Most sadly, my lovely wife Hazel, 'nee' Cook, died very ...Read more

A memory of Kelsale in 1968 by Brian Corbett

This was my first full time job. I was the office junior. My name was Anne Steedman. I loved my role there; going round with the post, printing out on the duplicating machine (messy things in them days lol), learning all about he "dolly ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1969 by Annie Gibbs

As a 16 year old, I was a boarder from Cartagena de Indias, Colombia at Saint Joseph's Convent, 122 Ladbroke Road. With me there were around 25 girls ranging from the ages of 4 to 17 years old and at least from 10 different ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1966 by Maria Victoria Garcia Azuero

My great grandmother was Margaret James who with her husband John, were tenent farmers near Calbeck from about 1897 to the late 1920's or early 1930's. My Mother told me that as a young girl, she, my Mother, spent her summers 'at the ...Read more

A memory of Caldbeck in 1960 by Carl Reade

My grandparents, William and Rose Broadway ran the Post Office stores in the late 60's and 70's. I can vividly remember jars of sweets, Grandad boiling his own ham, getting up at 5am to give papers to the ...Read more

A memory of Great Tey in 1968 by Julie Thomson