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I remember Grove Cottages and the families who lived in both No 1 & 2 in 1965.  My parents were friendly with the Davies in No 2 and as a teenager I visited No 1 on many occasions along with all our crowd.  The LeNoble ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham in 1964 by Paula Clements

The "Bank" has occupied this site since the late seventeenth century. Although you cannot see from either this view or indeed from the street, there is an exquisite garden and lawn in the centre! The Bank underwent an extensive ...Read more

A memory of London in 1963 by John Howard Norfolk

The large corner "shop" on the left was the showroom of North West Gas where you could pay your gas bill. This is now Dawsons music and instrument shop. The corner shop on the right was Hawkins tailors, on two floors. This is now a MacDonalds restaurant.

A memory of Altrincham in 1960 by Bob Cleary

I  was  brought  up  at  110  High  Street  then  at  the  top of  Backwaterside  Lane.  My  Grandparents  were William  and  Louisa  Barrenger.  My  Mum  Mabel  Barrenger (later  Mabel  Dutton)  was ...Read more

A memory of Brightlingsea in 1960 by Anne Holmes

Preedys was the main tobacconist in Wolverhampton and the Express Cafe at the bottom of Queen Street is where I used to go for dinner on a Saturday after working the Minors matinee film at the ABC cinema in Garrick street. There ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town in 1960 by Gordon Ford

I remember Didsbury well. I was a young Telephonist who transferred from the big Telephone Exchange in Chapel Street Salford to Didsbury to get Manual experience. I have such memories of how busy we were. In ...Read more

A memory of Didsbury in 1961 by Kathy Neil

Dear Sir, My parents Derek and Shirley Battye were the licensees of the Globe in 1965 and I have many happy memories of the time we spent there, I would often catch crabs from thec quay and first went to school in Newton Ferrers via ...Read more

A memory of Noss Mayo in 1965 by Nick Battye

And so i became a full teenage worker, ha ha , off to earn all that fabulous money, to buy all i wanted and roll around every where in style, be like the grown ups , drink beer down the pub or up the pub in ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood in 1966 by Nicolas Fumarola

Back in the sixties I was June Morris, I regularly attended Bob Dales Dancing School on Market Street with my friend Jean McHugh who was doing her nursing training then. Iam hoping there may be someone out there who remembers Bob Dales dancing school.

A memory of Droylsden in 1963

I grew up at my grannys house until age 5. I went to Wingate primary school for a while before we moved south. Her name was Anne Berry and my grandpa James died of cancer. I was born in 1957, and I had 2 little sisters, Pania and ...Read more

A memory of Wingate in 1960 by Juanita Richards