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My earliest memory of Stenhousemuir is standing on the go chair and my wee brother, Stephen, lying in it being pushed up the laundry hill crownest loan by my mam. We stayed in 75 Muirfield Road and at the age of six we moved to ...Read more

A memory of Stenhousemuir in 1960 by Gerard Henderson

My mom lived in the shop at Shelf Roundabout but moved away to Bradford, I think when she met my dad. When I was 8 my mom, now on her own, must have felt the pull back to Shelf and brought me and my sister, Linda to live on ...Read more

A memory of Shelf by Stephen Lines

My name is Sam Burrow I was born in Hartland in 1936 - the family moved to Clovelly in 1939 and lived in Home Lodge. My father, J A Burrow, was the estate foreman. My mother, Florrie, was the school cook throughout ...Read more

A memory of Clovelly in 1949 by Sam Burrow

This picture is taken from the roundabout at the junction of Moorside road and Woodsend Road. The Shopping Centre featured on another of these photographs is behind the photographer and to the right, about 150m away. The shop just ...Read more

A memory of Flixton in 1965 by Roger Hare

I lived in a bungalow in Broadbridge Lane (Redehall End) from my birth in 1957 to 1983. I always thought it was a great place to live, with a huge garden to play in, plus the surrounding woods and fields. During ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield by Janet Tafe

I lived in Kenilworth Drive with my 3 brothers and parents, and our garden backed on to the OMT playing fields. I have many happy memories exploring this area including the old house and pond. The local area Home Guard ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by John Mendham

Loftus in Cleveland I remember Slater's Banks, Primroses Violets, Cowslips rolling our paste eggs at Easter, Skylarks singing and Saturday Market shopping at the Co-op its butchers, shoe shop drapery offices ...Read more

A memory of Loftus by Sandra Welford

What a 'Swinging Bridge' it was at Merthyr Mawr back in the 1050s! I don't know when it was changed to a 'solid' bridge, but how it ever survived the rough handling that we 'Cottage Homes Boys' gave it every year...Well! ...Read more

A memory of Merthyr Mawr in 1950 by Terry Evans

Life for a child in the village of Worle in the 1950s was exciting, parochial and safe. Our parents did not lose sleep over thoughts of us being molested. Children were more likely to be in danger from their own recklessness than ...Read more

A memory of Worle in 1956 by Raye Green

My grandparents lived at "The Elms" a house built by my great grandfather who also build Fynnongroew Church - My grand mother Emily can be seen as a small girl in a Postcard of Fynnongroew out side "The Laurels" where she ...Read more

A memory of Tanlan in 1958 by Gareth Jones