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I grew up in Polzeath and my two best mates also lived in the area, sadly, both dead now. I remember in the summers the CSSM coming down and staying in New Polzeath, arranging lots of beach games in the afternoons but building a 'Pulpit" ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath by Christopher Le Bailly

I was born in 54 Mill Street, Trecynon. As was my sister, our mother and her brothers and sitsters. A little 2 down 2 up, stone cottage. It was on the top of the hill, and we could run down "the trip" as we called it, and play there, ...Read more

A memory of Trecynon in 1947 by Heather Forey

I cannot be specific as to the date of the Queen's visit because I was very young at the time. On the left hand side of the road you can see what was at one time the post office but which later became a carpet shop.  On the ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1956 by Kathleen Green

It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the  streets ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by Dave Southern

My parents moved to Twycross from London in the early 1960s. We lived on Sheepy Road next door to Mr Charlie Brooks and Louie Jones. On the opposite side were Stan and Ilma Jones and Len Gibbs and his daughter Joan. I ...Read more

A memory of Twycross by Tracy Wright

Betty and I were brought up in Davidson Street, Sneinton just before the Second World War. It was a small back-to-back terraced house with an outside toilet. One of my first recollections was being bathed in the small kitchen ...Read more

A memory of Sneinton in 1930 by Fred Pearson

Here are some random memories: Lists Bakeries on Greenford Broadway.  Lovely aroma, tasty bread. The paper bags all used to have the slogan 'Good Flavour Always Finds Favour'. The covered market near ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Danny Robinson

I think that we must have moved to Cheadle around 1938, because I was born in Newcastle under Lyme, but my younger sister was born in Cheadle in 1939. At that time we lived on Leek Road. We had various ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle in 1930 by Terry Brooks

Seeing this photo brings back many happy memories, on the left of the photo are two black gates and the first cottage next to them is where I was born back in 1955. Shortly afterwards they were demolished and a service road was put in ...Read more

A memory of Twyford in 1955 by Stephen Bennett

It didn't change until the sixties when the station was rebuilt and opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 in 1961. I watched the whole building project from start to finish from the comfort of my bedroom window. When it ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1950 by Chrs