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Every year we would go to Pooles on the High Street to get yellow fishing nets so that we could go and collect tadpoles from ponds around the area. We would deliberate for a good while over what colour nets to get but we ...Read more

A memory of Goldenhill in 1971 by Tina Stanyer

I can just about remember my time at the school, it was run by nuns, Sister Sheila rings a bell. I was there with my two brothers, Thomas Keefe and Pandy Keefe. I remember geting the cane for kissing a girl and sneaking ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1972 by Michael Keefe

I was born in Fleetwood in 1947 but seemed to oscillate between there and Malaya for a number of years up to the age of 12 just before dad died. My first memories are of starting at Stella Maris convent and then being ...Read more

A memory of Fleetwood in 1970 by Pat Corrigan

I was born in Monton, lived in Monton during my childhood and moved to Eccles. I went to Eccles Parish School which at the time was run by nuns. They taught us pretty well and watched over us even when we washed our hands, and if anyone ...Read more

A memory of Eccles in 1973 by R. Sultan

Two years after our first visit we came again, bringing our own river cruisers towed by our own cars. We had located a slipway to launch at Martham boatyard prior to starting the holiday. The location at Martham was ...Read more

A memory of Potter Heigham in 1970 by Mike Atherley

I have had a long association with Jaywick - I am the organist at St Christopher`s church in Meadow Way. I was approached by Mrs Elsie Coleman (who was steward 'in charge' then) over thirty years ago to do a `temporary stint`. I loved the ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1978 by Allen Warrender

ODE TO WALLSEND I was born at Wallsend Village green in the heart of Wallsend Town, I spent my childhood in an era great to be around, We all grew up together and played in our back lanes, My cousins and my neighbours in the ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1976 by James Bridgewood

My Grandad was Ken Derham, the village baker. I lived at the bakery for a short time when I was aged about 9. I remember him making the bread and being allowed to help him fill the donuts with jam. I can still smell how wonderful the ...Read more

A memory of Meopham in 1975 by Simon Balcomb

I was one of the very last crew members of the queen of the broads before she was scrapped and was very sad when she was scrapped in lake lothing oulton broad suffolk

A memory of Broads, The in 1976 by Richard Cox

The hot summer of 1976 - I was 16 and studying for my O levels in between minding the shop for my adopted parents Bert and Mary Belli. Our cafe was one of two Belli cafes in the town, but of course I always thought ours was superior and ...Read more

A memory of Blaenavon in 1976 by Stephen Belli