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When I was a child, living in Coventry, my parents used to pack me off to Milford to get some fresh sea air and spend quality time with my cousins! My best times were when we went off to buy sweets - I loved ...Read more

A memory of Milford on Sea in 1961 by Olivia Harrod

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 ...Read more

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

I often wondered who Hubert was. Other road names around were obvious. Bank Street was on a bank; School street had a school at the end of it. But Hubert Terrace? One side of my street was brick and the other was stone; something ...Read more

A memory of Bensham in 1964 by Susan Green

It was a happy childhood, I was born in Etwall in 1954 and our council house in Windmill Road is still our family home. Some of my fondest memories are the simple pleasures of life as a young lad in the 1950/60s. Always keen to get home ...Read more

A memory of Etwall in 1963 by Vince Cooper

I remember in my summer hols helping an American/Canadian couple to move the gold coloured Budda and other things into their place, ready for the monks arrival. They used to grow all their own veg and herbs there and it was a big eye opener for a Biddulph lad of my age...... great memories.

A memory of Biddulph in 1968 by Keith Mountford

HI i was sent to Eden Hall in 1965 i was nine at the time and i was only there for one term it was the summer till christmas term. I remember because we were taken across this field to a very old village hall where we made ...Read more

A memory of Bacton in 1965 by Janice Abbott

I was born in Summerhill in 1960 close to the chapel on Top Road, there were miner's houses in rows, all later demolished. Has anyone got any memories or photographs of any era of Summerhill history. I have ...Read more

A memory of Summerhill in 1960 by Andrew Highton

I had many very happy years spending my summer hols with my wee Granny and Grampa Bowman! I met my first love there too!

A memory of Rankinston in 1960 by Liz Alexander

My friend came to live at the Summerhill House hotel with her parents, her name was Carol Sanders. It was a very up market hotel, silver service and well run. The Hotel catered for wedding receptions and had a lovely spiral wooden ...Read more

A memory of Kingswinford in 1963 by Christine Turner

My nan and aunt used to live on Corringham Rd. I spent nearly all my summer hols at no 60. My aunt Molly Mcdade was organist at the church. I remember the smell of bonfires on a summers evening. My nan was called Nin. My aunt always rode a Raleigh bike.

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1968 by Anne Dilley