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I can remember moving to Bilsington village when I was just over seven years old. I attended Bilsington Primary School and have clear memories of Miss Fellows (the Headmistress). She had a kind heart I think but at the time ...Read more

A memory of Bilsington in 1970 by Creina Lightle

Brockworth oh Brockworth, what a lovely village! I grew up there and my dad used to take my brother Melvyn and I for walks up the hill. Castle Hill and Coopers Hill. I remember walks from 1975 onwards, especially on the lower slopes of Coopers ...Read more

A memory of Brockworth in 1975 by Derek Oram

Having left Australia on an open-ended working holiday to England in January, 1974 with my girlfriend, it was hard to imagine that within six weeks of arriving in London we'd be living on a leaky old narrow boat in ...Read more

A memory of Leighton Buzzard in 1975 by Ross Barnard

1970 - 1984: As you look at this photo the last building on the right, the barn like cottage with the small window, is Rose View. My mum and dad bought it for £1,000 in 1970, and set to work modernising it as I was due 1971 and my brother ...Read more

A memory of Polgooth in 1970 by Tami Cross Halls

After living in Richmond I bought and renovated Pear Tree House (on the right of this 1913 picture) in 1972.  The previous occupants had died and when I found the house it was covered in ivy and I understand at one time Funeral ...Read more

A memory of Skeeby in 1972 by Terry King

My dad came from Treherbert. My grandad, who I never met, worked in the coal mines of the Rhondda Valley. My grandparents also owned a fish and chip shop there. If you are old enough you may even remember it. My grandad apparently ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert in 1974 by Derek Oram

Our first home was a ground floor bedsit at 40 Castle Corner opposite the castle. The old part of the road formed a hammer head and had three parking bays. One dark rainy winters night my husband parked outside and ran in to get ...Read more

A memory of Beckington in 1976 by Christine Mabbett

Hiya all, This is Tracey Vincent (Harland). My family moved to Nuneaton around 1971 and we lived at 99 Meadowside for 9 years we had many friends. Denise and Fred Saxton along with their ...Read more

A memory of Nuneaton in 1972 by Tracey Vincent

I visited the house with my 2nd cousins as their mother, Ethel Smith, and my grandmother, Rosa Matilda Smith, lived in the house with their family for many, many years until the last of the Smiths living in the house died, ...Read more

A memory of Mells in 1972 by Lyn Mews

This looks exactly like the picture I took to prove to Mom I had been on my way to Auntie Connies' house.  I took the train from Doncaster in England to Swansea - one of the train ...Read more

A memory of Swansea in 1971 by Susie Somerville Franz