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Seeing this photo bought back painful memories!  The year before this photo was taken I was in my usual rush to get from Slough Technical School to my home in Langley.  This meant changing buses in Slough and if you were very ...Read more

A memory of Slough in 1960 by Bill Burrows

My dad was stationed here in the early 60's with the US Navy.  Although I was only 5 years old at the time the memories are still so vivid in my mind. So many thoughts and pictures are racing through my mind as I write this that ...Read more

A memory of Innellan in 1963 by Theresa Wilson

Oh I know it always seemed so huge and scary, with its giant red doors, but my brother and I had such fun in the churchyard climbing the trees and exploring the broken tombs and crypts. Pretty scary as I always expected a monster ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell in 1966 by Denise Masters

As a young child I can remember several holidays taken at the Warners holiday camp at Seaton. The serious business of 'motoring down to Devon' was never taken lightly, lunch was prepared the night before to be eaten at Stonehenge, where one ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1965 by Michael Gough

Iam not sure how close Iam on the date, however when we where kids, me and my friends would spend most of the day in the summer holidays with string and safety pin, stick some muscle meat on it from the muscle bed from the other side ...Read more

A memory of Knott End-on-Sea in 1962 by Eric Butler

This was around 1968 and I lived in 21 Millfield Lane. I got auld Mrs Bradney's downstairs flat and me Nanna lived in No. 25, so nice and handy to pop in for a cuppa and a chat as me Ma 'n Da 'n two sisters had moved to Pegswood, Morpeth, ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1968 by Jimmy Burrows

My family moved from Leeds, Yorks to Gilnahirk when I was 11 months old - my parents had a house built in Gilnahirk Walk and we moved in when I was two. I and my two sisters had an idyllic childhood, we had so many places to ...Read more

A memory of Belfast in 1961 by Isobel Buck

My name is Robert Gwillim, I lived at 1A High Street with my parents Edward & Betty from when I was born in 1955 until April 1962. My sister, Carol, was born in December 1961. My parents had lived at 1A High ...Read more

A memory of Garndiffaith in 1960 by Robert Gwillim

I was in a children's home here and fostered to a lovely couple, Mr and Mrs Smith, at Little Stone Cottage, Haslemere. My natural mother wanted me back and I never saw them again. I recently found this information out in ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1960 by Violet Stevens

Ahh yes, the good old days. Bedwell school, the old church. I went there for my 3rd year when I was 9 or 10, this was because my actual school (bedonwell) was not large enough to deal with 4 years worth of pupils, so ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere in 1965 by Richard Halsey