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I remember well going to the swimming baths once a week during the summer for swimming lessons. We used to walk from Pilton School to Rock Park, or those of us with bikes were allowed to cycle and wait at the park for the ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1959 by Stuart Ackland

Growing up in Enfield, this pool was quite a fave spot, especially during my teens - the 1960s. They always displayed the current temperature, and the security in and out was way ahead of its time - like Fort Knox, I seem ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1964 by Sue Rowe

This has bad memories for me. When I was a student of Bridgemary School in the first two years in the summer we had to go down by coach to the baths to learn to swim (at 57 I still cannot swim). It was always cold and we had ...Read more

A memory of Gosport in 1965 by Marten Humphries

My mother was a Woolley and she was born and brought up in Ashbourne where most of her wider family still lived when I was a child. I was brought up in Uttoxeter, my father's home town, but I was born at Ashbourne maternity ...Read more

A memory of Ashbourne by goodkell

Hello again. I started at Cold Ash School, St Marks C of E in 1953. The school consisted of the original brick building housing two class rooms and a large hall, plus a new wooden extension of two more class rooms and ...Read more

A memory of Cold Ash by grahamfsmith

My father (Frank Francis) worked at this garage TBC following his return to Kidderminster at the end of the war. He worked there through all of the remaining 40s and 50s. As a young boy I had the run of the garage and its roof garden. ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster by alanfrancis66

I was moved to Henbury, to Sheepwood Road to be exact with my mum and Dad. Blaise School was a lovely junior school, but it was there that I was first told about my singing voice. Two of us were ...Read more

A memory of Henbury by nnickn

I was born at 7, Nightingale Row, in the box room which was originally shared by my mother Mavis Warren and her sister Glennis Byard as they were to become. The daughters of George and Martha (Dot) Edwards. The house was rented from a ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd by howardwarren257

Many memories of my childhood days in Tolworth , lived on sunray estate in Firdene virtually from birth , went to Knollmead primary then Hollyfeild , remember going down path at side of Knollmead school and railway track to the rec where we ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by simonparks1958

My family moved to South Ockendon in 1953, into a new house at 164 Daiglen Drive, on the housing estate just outside the village. We shopped in the village and my father took the train from there every day to his work in ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by glenappin