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I was born in Ridgewell Avenue in 1956. I remember when I used to go into Peggy's sweet shop where she used to live with her sister Ada. Next door but one was a small shop which sold wool and sewing accesories. Further along the road ...Read more

A memory of Orsett in 1965 by Brenda Wootton

My wife at the time, Beryl White, and I rember this shop so very well, also the old Post Office at the bottom corner. We used to live at 16 Wilson Drive. Life was a struggle at that time. Then we moved out to ...Read more

A memory of Moulton in 1966 by Robert White

Shovelled off to Boarding School, aged 7 (just), small boy, shorts, huge trunk, sandwiches and standing on the platform in London shivering and not just from the cold. School train huffing and puffing heading for ...Read more

A memory of Tawstock in 1960 by James Burgess

I was born in oldham/chadderton but moved away at the age of ten most of my years where happy.... im beggin for help im tryin to find photo of eustace street school ... n chanery street chadderton as they where...plz help me if u can im ...Read more

A memory of Chadderton in 1960 by Pauline Knowles

I went to what we used to call the school on the hill. I lived in Knott End and sometimes when we were rich we'd go to school on the bus, but if not it was your two feet that got you there, anyway my memory relates to the roundhouse, it ...Read more

A memory of Preesall in 1960 by Eric Butler

I lived in Rose Cottage from mid 1965 to July 1966 when we were posted to Germany. At the time it was divided into two cottages. Myself, my husband and my 6mths old son lived in no2 which was the cottage on the left side looking front on. ...Read more

A memory of Over Wallop in 1965 by Mary Rowlands

I was born at 40 Priory Street, Birkenhead in 1947 . I have lost track of all my family. But most important was the memories of a young ladie who was supposed to follow me to Canada in 1966, she was a beautiful Welsh nurse who ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1965 by John Wilson

I was born in 1964 in Richard Murray Hospital Consett and lived with my mum Margaret and grandmother Milly in St Ives Road, Leadgate. My grandmother Milly and grandfather Charlie Faragher had lived at 45 St Ives Road ...Read more

A memory of Leadgate in 1964 by Lynne Evans

I lived in a terraced cottage with a family named Hatch. Mrs. Hatch ran the grocers and the post office in 1969. My daughter Cassie was just over a year old and used to play on the porch between the house and the store. She would ...Read more

A memory of Mixbury in 1969 by Don Colley

My name is Jane Anne Simmonds (nee Hyde). I was born in Newton Abbot on 31st March 1956. My grandfather Herbert Hyde had retired as a Wing Commander in the airforce and was managing the Union Hotel. My brother John Hyde was ...Read more

A memory of Newton Abbot in 1960 by Susan Cooling