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Having been born in Ann Street in 1962, my memories of the surrounding area are quite vivid, including Waddles Foundry; the metal beating from the works would often wake me in the morning. It was on land just behind the Bull ...Read more

A memory of Llanelli in 1969 by Julie Hart

I remember visiting the mill many years ago as my mother had an uncle who worked there, and often went into the house on the right which then was the mill´s offices. Everyone used to buy Viv Wood's fish and ...Read more

A memory of Paddock Wood in 1960 by Jean Hardcastle

I came down from Scotland when I was 16 & was a nanny in Broad Hinton for a year for Mr & Mrs Huddy (can't remember the name of the house), & then I decided that I wanted to work with horses, so I got a ...Read more

A memory of Clyffe Pypard in 1969 by Alison Cloy

My dad Jimmy was the local 'Baxter the butcher' for many years. I remember going to Samuel LLoyds school and going to see him to get my mince for cookery. We used to live next door to the doctor's surgery in ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1962 by Linda Tume Nee Wilson

Hi, I lived on Glen Faba in the 1960s from the age 5-10. I remember Stanley Hickin and his dad and their two big alsatian dogs. Fond memories of fishing in the River Lea, not knowing at the time near fields weir there was a island that ...Read more

A memory of Hoddesdon in 1961 by Danny Marr

Many happy years playing in Grange Wood and surrounding fields and walking through the fields up to Acton Bridge. Picnics with jam butties and water. Bike rides up to Cuddington and Hartford. Long summer holidays when the tar melted ...Read more

A memory of Weaverham in 1967

1964 was the year I moved from Barking to Bletchley because my aunt and uncle Jay lived there since 1954, we used to go to there's for Christmas, it was boring, nowt to do loads of snow and woods and cows. When I first got of ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1964 by Bob Warren

I'm as sure as I can be, that the little boy in the picture with the black coat is me. I would have been three to four years old (depending what time of year the picture was taken). I was the youngest at the home at that ...Read more

A memory of Glenfield in 1960 by Peter Anthony

Just to the left of this pub was the entrance to the woods where my parents used to take me for walks when I was very young.

A memory of Hockley in 1964 by Dominique Payne

This is really to try and find out if anybody in Leiston may rember the late Mr Robert Wood Stewart. He married Miss Doris Clouting in the late 1940's and had two children Robert John, and Christine Edith. Sadly he gassed ...Read more

A memory of Leiston in 1961 by Sheila Bullock