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I remember travelling to Southend with my family on a steam train from London.  My sister and I use to put our heads out of the windows.  More often than not when we sat down our faces would be black with soot from the ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1958 by Jan Rennie

I WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP TO THE AGE OF 12 IN ERBISTOCK AND I LOVED IT.  THE BOAT INN WAS RUN BY THE WILLIAMS'S.   I PLAYED WITH CAROL AND TIMOTHY IN ALL THE OUTBUILDINGS.  I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL IN THE CHURCH AND THERE WAS A LADY ...Read more

A memory of Erbistock in 1959 by Barbara Parry

When I was young we lived a short distance from here. A Sunday afternoon walk usually involved "going top see the boats"

A memory of Poulton-Le-Fylde in 1940 by Alan Fryer

Just after the war during our summer holidays I was sent from Rochester (where we lived at that time, Dad having been demobbed and then working at Short Bros on the airport), together with my trusty Hercules cycle to spend ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1940 by Mike Mumford

The tall building at the bottom left hand side of the slipway leading down to the beach was used by a Mr Axford who had two or three wooden rowing boats that he hired out by the hour.  He would sit on a bench ...Read more

A memory of Porthpean in 1951 by Peter Marks

The Boat is the name of the Inn on the left of the picture. As children we used to walk across the top of bridge wall and, as a further dare, across the pipes which ran just below the parapet, above the water.    Once, when I was serenely ...Read more

A memory of Gnosall in 1961 by Penny Trueman

My family used to rent a bungalow just off Boat Cliffe Road called 'Sunny Dawn'.  It had a big verandah all around it and flies used to stick to the windows after it had rained!  We always went to Reighton for holidays and ...Read more

A memory of Reighton in 1965 by Wendy Jones

I briefly attended Charlestown Infants' school in 1942 as it accepted children a years earlier than Mount Charles Infants (just a mile away) which I lived just a few yards from on Porthpean Road.  I was four years ...Read more

A memory of Charlestown in 1953 by Peter Marks

Up past the lightning tree, its trunk split in half where it was struck. Round Conjoin Lane and back home to Mum. Big brother and sister, our Vee and our George, fair-haired and handsome, this brother of ...Read more

A memory of Tideswell in 1940 by Elsie Hollis

I am told that once upon a time buses ran through Romford Market towards Gidea Park. Apparently I was happily standing in the queue with my mother and newly-born sister in a pram waiting for a 174. I held tight to ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1965 by Louise Hands Heathfield