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Who remembers running along the two boards inside the bridge and jumping between the gaps. Scary or what, or did you not live dangerously like me and Tom Eastlake?

A memory of Ashington in 1967 by Rob Ross

My husband recently took me on a trip down Memory Lane to Ash Vale. I am 76 years old and can remember everything so vividly, having been evacuated there during the war years. We lived in Balmoral Road and my mother became friendly ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale in 1945 by Maureen Thurston

I lived in Marple Grove from 1945 until 1965 - we used to go into the back fields and either play in the brook at the top near Park Road, or in the next field with a lot of pipes. There was a strong rope suspended from the railway ...Read more

A memory of Stretford by Irene Rawlinson

I got married here in Feb 1968 on a cold snowy day after having a few drinks in the Cross Keys pub first. My sister made the bridesmaid dresses and we used all the family cars to save money. The reception was in the new Becontree Hall ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1968 by Sydney Fox

I lived in Culcheth when I attended LGS .I uused to catch a bus, alight at Butts Bridge then walk along the canal towpath and enter the school grounds by the air raid shelters. Bill Major was the Headmaster, a man we all feared. ...Read more

A memory of Leigh in 1942 by Fred Walmsley

I was born in Bridge House, which I understand was a nursing or maternity home at the time. Does anyone remember what it was called? My home was a prefab at Homer Cross, just off the Little Walden Road. The prefabs were grouped ...Read more

A memory of Saffron Walden in 1947

That title was the answer given by my father when folks asked him where Longriggend was! My dad was born in Longriggend on 6 January 1902. He lived there for a few years until his father moved to Dunfermline to seek new ...Read more

A memory of Longriggend in 1955 by Jack Pryde

My dad was a young soldier with The Kings own Scottish Borders. They were stationed (billeted) in Upminster around the old windmill area. Before they left for the Normandy invasion, they spent lots of time socializing at the ...Read more

A memory of Upminster by Edddie Kennedy

This view shows the old North Eastern Railway Station at Pateley Bridge, this line from Harrogate, opened in May 1862 and closed to passengers in March 1951, just three years before we went to live in Pateley Bridge, ...Read more

A memory of Pateley Bridge by Robert Goulding

The Sunday afternoon walks down the Morfa to feed Dai the swan or picnics at the Brombil Reservoir. The early morning movement of cows from Brombil farm through Morfa Lane and over the stone railway bridge to the ...Read more

A memory of Port Talbot in 1940