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Grew up in Moorhead Shipley and what even struck me then was the snobby and small town attitude of some of the residents! I had a Jewish father and a socialist non-believer mother who were both brought up in the area. ...Read more

A memory of Shipley in 1960 by Jane Smith

I have very distinct memories of living, as a young child, in one of two single decker buses near the beach at Talacre. I recall tall beds and paraffin lamps with tall glass chimneys. My father was ...Read more

A memory of Talacre in 1961 by David Richards

To the right of this picture, on the High Street was the town hall. For seven years I waited there every morning for the Jump Circular bus, or if I missed it the Rotherham bus to take me into Barnsley where I was at the then ...Read more

A memory of Hoyland in 1961 by David Webster

We moved from Eastbourne to Wannock Lane, Willingdon in 1963 as my mother felt it would be a nice place for us to grow up at the foot of the Downs. It certainly was, Willingdon School fulfilled us academically & ...Read more

A memory of Willingdon in 1963 by Sandra Bourne

I was born in Abercregan in Prossers Terrace (41) along with my parents George Chewings, Edna and my two older brothers Michael and Thomas, also a younger sister Janice. My grand parents lived at no. 44 Tom and ...Read more

A memory of Abercregan in 1966 by Alan Chewings

Hi does anyone remember the riding school at the top of the common. I am trying to find an old friend of mine that worked there called Jill Allsop. We used to go riding over Penn Common and annoy the ...Read more

A memory of Penn in 1964 by Christine Turner

I too went to Holmesdale secondary, it was called Snodland Secondary when I first went there. My Dad and Grandfather, Peter and Henry Buss both worked as lorry drivers at the cement works and we lived in a factory ...Read more

A memory of Snodland in 1964 by Carole Hooper

I remember going to Whitehall junior school and then spend half a year at Greenway school before we moved to Surrey all my friends lived around Uxbridge I would like to know if anyone remember me my friends were Keith Benn ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1960 by Barry Budd

Was anybody with me when we broke into the grounds of this posh girls' school sometime in the mid Sixties? Full of beer and revolutionary fervour,we intended to swim in their open-air pool. It must have been ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1966

Does anybody have any photos of the bike shop in Exmouth Street called (Rogers) and the Pub next door.

A memory of Birkenhead in 1965 by Barry Rogers