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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

My grandparents (Alan and Doris Hartley) used to have a bungalow on Boat Cliffe Road, this shop was at the bottom of the road.  We used to go to Reighton Gap every school holiday and had some fantastic times there.  I think I recall a ...Read more

A memory of Reighton in 1976 by Richard Hartley

I spent all my younger July and Augusts at East Runton in my grandad's caravan on Stewarts caravan site.  My sister Gaynor and I  made good friends with brothers Mick and Graham Kilsby from Kettering. I have many happy memories of ...Read more

A memory of East Runton in 1977 by Mandy Johnson

I was in this hospital for a couple of years when I was around 4 years old! (Hence the vagueness.) I recall the wards (dorms) and I recall bouncing from one bed to another along the entire length of the ward ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1979 by Nikki Wade

Wow.. those boats are still plying their trade today although the boating pool is on the southside near the spa nowadays and has been for a few decades. I remember my Nan taking my brother and myself in the long hot summer of 1976 to ...Read more

A memory of Bridlington in 1976 by Rich Colman

I would like to hear from anyone who was in Heswall Children's Hospital in 1969 to 1971. I would like to find Denise O'Gorman, we were best mates, she will be in her 50s now, she came from Cherster. So come on, someone must ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1971 by Marie Lafferty

I have been coming to Kennack since I was a toddler. But 1972 was the first of many years that stand out to me. My family met another family and we are still in touch now, 36 years and more later. My memories are so many, borrowing ...Read more

A memory of Kennack Sands in 1972

I worked in the big hotel in Sandown, and a couple of hotels on the very seafront with two girls from Binstead, what fun we had, laughter and tears went together. I've lost touch with them but would love to hear what they are up to ...Read more

A memory of Binstead in 1973 by Patricia Hamilton

I was only about 6 years old but I clearly remember visiting my grandparents' house on weekends. My grandfather was a gamekeeper on the moors until his retirement. In the early 1970s he and his wife moved to nearby Penistone.  We ...Read more

A memory of Upper Midhope in 1970 by David Salmon

I was lucky in that I lived in an area that was not often touched by the violence that was going on in Northern Ireland at the time, but a telephone conversation with my mum in recent days brought back memories of life in ...Read more

A memory of Belfast in 1970 by Isobel Buck