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In relation to Margaret's memory of 'crossing the moor', we did the same! I have various memories of gym periods in embarrassing shorts, running around on 'the moor', with the boys from the 'new' Ravenspark School (now Irvine) ...Read more

A memory of Irvine in 1970 by Margaret Barr

I remember being a patient on this ward because of a fractured femur and being in traction for three months, it was the summer of 1978 and roasting. We were wheeled through great big doors at the side of the ward and into the grounds, ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1978 by Julie Ellis

I suspect either caption "Basingstoke Boarding School" or "Fairfields School" is correct, depending on your time period. I attended this school in the 1960s & 70s when it was aan ordinary (non-boarding) Infants & Junior ...Read more

A memory of Basingstoke in 1970 by Colin Moden

I visited St Peter's in August 1976 as part of a search for traces of my ancestors, the De Vauxs of Adlington, French Hugenots who first settled from France, in 1630. They became Yeomen farmers on the Leghs Adlington estate and ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury in 1976 by James Logan Bell

My stay in this ward is full of happy memories. I remember Wally the porter pushing my trolley through the basement, I can remember seeing lots of what I presume were water pipes to get to the x ray department, with today's health ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1977 by Karen Lloyd

We stayed in Coalburn for a month in late August/September 1970 to visit with my great aunt Agnes "Nance" Young on Bellfield Road. Met my penpal Linda Dempster. Joe McGill kept a bunch of young people busy and his mother gave us treacle toffee ...Read more

A memory of Coalburn in 1970 by Pam Goold