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I used to visit my pal Danny Parker during the school holidays,his family moved to thornley from rossmere way .Hartlepool when we were in Rossmere junior school I recall the little house 8 Galt street with back yard and low ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1960 by Peter Forsyth

I remember a Geordie Frazer as we called him, but I seem to remember he was not a geordie. He was a butcher and on the side was a barber - he was a crap barber but it cost next to nowt so maybe you have a link to this..happy hunting.

A memory of Acomb in 1965 by Keith Watson

I came to Southminster to join the Staff (there were actually just 2 teachers and a headmistress) at the new infants school in 1963. It was a long warm autumn and my husband and I being newly married lived in a ...Read more

A memory of Southminster in 1963 by Patricia Hardy

My husband was in the RAF and Odiham was our first place as a married couple. We were unable to get a married quarter and so my husband rented a flat over a driving school in Station Road. We both learnt to drive from there. I worked at ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1968 by Christine Ketteringham

I moved to Hoyland in 1960 when I was 7 yrs old. Our family George, Lyn ,Jean and Elizabeth lived in a house named Kirk Farm House. It was a lovely old farmhouse that stood behind St Andrews Church, Market ...Read more

A memory of Hoyland in 1960 by Jean Lewus

The railway signal box at Pontllanfraith had Home Rule plastered on the side. My aunts Gladis Holvey and Gwen Durham and Dorothy - I am their nephew Phyllis's boy Roger, and the trips to Barry Island in Uncle's Fred's bus - he ...Read more

A memory of Cefn in 1962

This was our local post office; these shops were a meeting place years ago and everybody new each other then. The shops at Upton Lea then, were very clean outside. On the corner we caught the old buses, jump on & off to Slough.

A memory of Slough in 1960

Someone posted they lived in Sandown Crescent in Gorton; my husband Malcolm Davies lived at number 9 Sandown. He played at the Mellands playing fields and the Army camp. The person who lived at number 7 is now in Canada, do you remember Malcolm?

A memory of Gorton in 1963 by Edith Holland/Davies/Brook

This picture shows the Post Office - the nearest of the row of shops. Note the old-fashioned police telephone just outside the Post Office. The next shop is the barbers where I used to get the haircut! The son of this barber had a barber ...Read more

A memory of Flixton in 1965 by Roger Hare

Born and brought up in Glendaruel, we made Sunday trips to Kilfinnan to visit Granny Fitzpatrick and Uncle Willie who stayed at Newlands. My father, Archie, was born in Kilfinnan and my mother Mary Weir born Millhouse. ...Read more

A memory of Kilfinan in 1960 by Shiona Boyd