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My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at ...Read more

A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by George Whittingham

My first main job on leaving school (Shaw House) was as a tea boy-dogsbody at H C James timber and builders merchants in Pound Street. For quite a while I cycled daily from Highclere Castle, approx 4 miles, it took me just over half ...Read more

A memory of Newbury in 1956 by Percival Mills

I started at Purfleet Infants & Primary School aged 4, I put my head on the desk and cried for ages, but there was a lovely elderly lady teacher (I can't remember her name?), she blew my nose and washed my face, I'd ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet in 1952 by Maria Westbrook

Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more

A memory of Fenham by keith.hindson

On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first ...Read more

A memory of Locksbottom

We moved to Waterlooville in 1952,we lived in a row of houses called Salisbury Villas ,now that is the back of Waitrose.Our neighbours were Mr and Mrs Henry Cannings,and Jim and Nellie Olding.My dad Tony Blair worked in ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville by jamespage

I spent my first eleven years in the above address. The houses were all council houses. There was an Anderson shelter in the back garden from the second world war. The houses were quite ordinary but Ham was a very ...Read more

A memory of Ham by Lesley Winkworth

I arrived in Wolverhampton when demolition of the market buildings was under way. The buildings in front of the church (in the photo) must have already been long gone, but the buildings on the side ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton

I lived at 27 Radnor Street, last but one tennament to be flattened. My first year of school was at the "new high school", on Bouquanaran; 10 class rooms open, we had to scramble among the bricks to get to class. Then I went to ...Read more

A memory of Clydebank in 1940 by Amy Worrick(Sullivan)

Evacuated here just before the war, I went to Wycombe Preparatory School for six months. I later went to the High School, which was then up Amersham Hill. The School Sports field was at the top of the hill, adjacent to the boys' ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe by Ann Martyr