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I need your help. The man who modeled for the statue seen in this photo is my grandfather. Unfortunately, the museum has the wrong man as the model, a relative with a close name who wasn't even born when the statue ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool by Diane Fulton

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

I was born in a Heck Lane Gatehouse November 1951 my Brother was born in the same house in 1949. There were two working sand quarries on either side behind our house. My Mam opened the gates mainly for the Cawoods sand lorries My Dad ...Read more

A memory of Hensall by Carol Pickett

This was almost certainly a bandstand. There is a bandstand of the right shape marked near the bowling greens on the 1932 25" OS map, surveyed in 1929; this was not marked on the 1912 edition, surveyed 1910. A similar bandstand was built in ...Read more

A memory of Preston by Crispin Edwards

I was also born in Wimbledon and have such fond memories. I was born at 33 Compton Road in 1947. I had five brothers and sisters, I was the second to last child. We all attended Old Central School, Camp Road on the ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon by mail

This isn't a memory. I have just found out a relative of mine lived at Cromwell Lodge can anybody tell me something about this place and where in Blackburn it was. Many thanks Jill Page

A memory of Blackburn by jillpagekd

This was once the main route through Cannock, namely the A34. I can't ever recall it being congested in the post war years and even into the 1960's though long distance lorries often passed through this way. Of course at that time the actual ...Read more

A memory of Cannock by brucehaycock

It was August 1955. School summer holidays and when they were over, it would be time for me to begin junior school back in my Midlands home town. My mother had been preparing for that big event, purchasing embroidered cloth school ...Read more

A memory of Penzance by brucehaycock

Born 1944 I grew up in a house on the Great West Road, between Springwell Lane and the Broadwalk. My first great adventure: a tricycle with which I nearly broke the legs of several pedestrians. Springwell infants' school on what had been ...Read more

A memory of Heston by tilburycm

While visiting friend in a local nursing home I was walking down the corridor admiring the prints of local interest, When a was drawn to a print of Lammas street and to the Willow Café which was owned by my Grandmother , while ...Read more

A memory of Carmarthen by iaucaroline