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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 Radnor ...Read more

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

I was born on 5th July 1948, we lived in one of the houses behind the Wheatsheaf hotel. Our neighbours there were the Wilcocks and the Browns. My Dad, worked as a driver for a furniture company and a coalman and I remember he ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury by Ian Turner

Stopping briefly outside the Working Men’s Club, the meeting place on Saturday lunchtimes for us Groby footballers before away games, we pass the chippy, the old blacksmiths where the old ...Read more

A memory of Groby in 1970

I attended the 'boards' training school based at Harold Hill, along with 79 other apprentices during 1960/61... I shared lodgings at Collier Row for the first year of the apprentice training ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1960 by Colin Crane

What I am most interested in writing about is how Highgate Village has changed so much since my school days, growing up there in the 1960s. Today most of the shops are coffee shops, estate ...Read more

A memory of Highgate in 1965 by Robert Molesworth

I first discovered Jaywick when I was just ten years old in 1954. I was taken there by my parents in a 1936 Bedford Van to stay with my uncle Bill, aunt Flo and cousin Bill who was 6 months younger than me. This would be ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1954 by James Tyler

My name is Paul Griffiths and I lived at the above address from 1942 until 1951 when my parents moved to Braintree, Essex. Some of the fondest memories of my childhood were spent at Upper Boat and we lived at the last house in Crwys ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boat by griffatgoerlitz

I was born at 83 Kingsway in August 1952 at my grandparents' home. My mother was Joan Carter (nee Harrison) who was born in Bennett Street, Ardwick, Manchester and my father was Brian Carter who was born in Rotherfield ...Read more

A memory of Bredbury by david.b.carter

Where the pushbike is, The Toast Rack cafe was, a favourite place for us 'rockers' to meet for coffee and a smoke (back in the days when we all did). This was the meeting place on a Sunday morning to ride to Box Hill and ...Read more

A memory of Sutton in 1961 by Peter Leonard Norcott

My parents moved to Blebo from Dura Den in 1950 when I was six. A windmill for electricity with 12 volt light bulbs. Paraffin lamps and a cesspool. It was several years before the pumping station at Clatto was built to ...Read more

A memory of Blebocraigs in 1950 by Fergus Nicolson