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Would love to hear from anyone with surname Butcher or anyone connected to that name in Ludlow and surrounding villages. My father was born in Ludlow in 1913 and both sides of family also. Two great uncles were innkeepers in the late ...Read more

A memory of Ludlow by enovert68

I grew up in Welling in a house on Ridley Road. My mother lived in that house for over 60 years until she died this past January. I have 3 sisters - that was a tiny house with 1 bathroom, at times we seemed to really fill the place - felt more ...Read more

A memory of Welling by Louise Daring

We moved to Pilgrims Hatch in 1971, such fun living on the Estate with a never ending hotch potch of mates to street rake with - knock down ginger, ipp dipp dog sh*t, duck duck goose, conkers and kiss chase. We'd bike to Ken ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood by Sam Golder

I was born in 66 Peel Street my grandad was Jack Rubery and wife Emma, my mum is Marjorie. I remember the Davy family, building the bonfires, playing in the old houses, picking the tar out of the cobbles, playing in my grandads big ...Read more

A memory of Tyersal by Andrea Marshall

Born 1959 & lived down the bottom of Coombe Road. Looking at the pics of the village I can remember the daily uphill trudge with mum to the shops. Ok I was in a pushchair on the way up but that became a shopping trolley on the way ...Read more

A memory of Irby by Dave Roberts

This picture makes me feel warm inside. When I was a young boy, 9-11 yrs old, I would fish from the wooden fence in the picture to the lower right, casting under the Newbury Bridge. Hoping to catch a large barbil or Samson the ...Read more

A memory of Newbury by Paul Frith

I don’t have the memory myself but my Great Grandad Robert L Bulbeck owned a butchers at 1st Avenue in Emsworth. I was wondering if anyone knew of it or had pictures? He came from a family of dairy farmers and met his wife a few streets over :)

A memory of Emsworth

The fields along Hospital Lane were for St Michael’s School in Leeds, next to the boys Grammar School - the boys had to get the bus up and change in the old stables! Allan Bennetts family lived in the corner ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge

I lived in Southern Drive from 1957 until 1968 went to the Albert Memorial junior school Moved to Cheetham hill in 1968 we hated it and moved back to Malham crescent in 1969 Worked as a paper boy for Bob and Winnie at the local paper ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by David Mc Hale

My maternal grandmother, born in 1885 in Salford, as a girl worked in the mills. Up to the time of her death in Ladywell hospital, at the age of 93, she always wore long clothes to her ankles and a woollen, thick shawl. When gran ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Anne Whyte