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I lived at No 92 Harbour Road, Pagham Beach from 1955 to 1967 when I moved to Nyetimber. Our bathroom was the railway carriage and the only access was by carefully dropping the window using the leather strap with holes and opening the ...Read more

A memory of Pagham in 1960 by Sue Priday

[This photo shows Arthur Shackson with the donkeys in Clovelly - identified by Mr Graham Shackson in a comment on this 'memory'. Arthur Shackson was for many years porter for the New Inn Hotel in ...Read more

A memory of Clovelly in 1960 by Kim White

I remember the loyalty to family and friends who worked at the pit. My grandfathers (Frickley) did, my father was a fitter and turner there at South Kirkby colliery. I miss the place. I remember digging a hole with my ...Read more

A memory of South Kirkby in 1969 by Leslie Baddeley

I was born in Dordan, Warwickshire and moved to Hurley when I was 3 years old. From that point in my life I can honestly say I had a wonderful childhood whilst growing up in the ...Read more

A memory of Hurley in 1961 by Philip Wiggin

I remember when I was about ten or eleven, we used to camp out in the back field behind the flats in Rockford Avenue, four or five of us in a two-man tent. After a rough nights sleep we would get up early in the morning ...Read more

A memory of Kirkby in 1960 by Tim Dwyer

I remember many many things As a child about London Street as for many years my father had a photographic business adjacent to the Olympia Ballroom (first property on the right hand side of the ballroom with the name Photo Enterprise). ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1960 by Frank Waddom Brown

I worked in the factory for six months in 1962 as part of a management training programme with Dunlop. The work was mainly the production of vinyl asbestos tiles but there was a unit for making rubber underlay. This was a hell hole ...Read more

A memory of Brynmawr in 1962 by David Osborne

47 years of living in Gods little acre, I think I know my home village a bit. From Maisie and Jimmy cornes from the shop. The old bakery and of course the best little watering hole in the world. Past and present the Terrace Inn ticks all the right boxes.

A memory of Pontrhydyrun in 1965 by John Bland

This is an extract from a story I wrote after taking some Dutch students to France in 1992 it includes youthful memories especially of Eastbrook School and it's staff. July 1962 (or there about). Vaguely do I remember my ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1962 by Dennis Collins

Does anyone remember a young lady called Susan Cole who lived with her family on Priestfields Ave/Rd, Rochester. Sue was good friends with my brother, Alan Turner, in the 60's; they met on holiday in Broadstairs and ...Read more

A memory of Frindsbury in 1965 by Hilary Clough