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Anyone out there who was a pupil or teacher at this School 1966 through 1971? I was, for my sins, Head of Music during these years and have memories of such staff names as Andy Thompson (history), Denis Holman (Head), ...Read more

A memory of Amersham in 1966 by Ray Lowrey

I grew up in Old Calmore at Croft Farm. My parents, Cyril and Winifred Pass, bought the property when they returned from India in 1947, and we lived in the 'pump house' until the bungalow was built in 1949. My earliest clear ...Read more

A memory of Calmore by Nina Stoddart

I have just read various entries for remembering streets of Salford which had my childhood flooding back to me with lots of affection. I also can remember the cobbled streets, rag bone man etc. But I also remember the people. I was ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1950 by David Smith

I was brought up at Onesacre and as a child I can remember going down to the old school house where Mr & Mrs Jones lived. They used to have boarding kennals and they kept a goat in the croft at the end of the lane. We used to feed ...Read more

A memory of Oughtibridge in 1967 by Edward Penistone

I was happily transported back to my childhood reading some of the memories on this page and thought I would share some of my own. I was born in 1951 in a tiny one up, one down house in Laneside, Yews Green. ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury in 1951 by Anne Clarke

PMX739377 SIR!. Yes. I was stationed in the Grand Hotel during my training in the RN to become an Electrical Artificer,The song I remember most was "Underneath the spreading chestut tree" which was often played in the little cafe in ...Read more

A memory of Lyndhurst in 1945 by Brian Haynes

I was born in Brampton Road 1950. I went to Roe Green School. I remember Standford's the little sweet shop where we could buy four shrimps & four black jacks & four flying saucers for 3d. I would ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1950 by John Roberts

My dad ran the St George's youth club for a few years. He also had the butcher's shop on Old Road in Flowery Field and my grandpa owned the butchers on Croft Street. The youth club was up some rickety stairs in the loft space in ...Read more

A memory of Hyde

My family have been on Bute for many hundreds of years but I was born in South Wales...Dad was a master Mariner and died in 1935. I have written a description of boyhood on Bute through the War and this is in the Bute Sons and ...Read more

A memory of Rothesay in 1930 by John Mackay

I too went to Tyler's from 1959 to 1964, staying on for a fifth year and doing my GCE's. I remember my first science lesson with Mr King and how he introduced us to the "rough book" which we used to write down the science notes he ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1960 by Alan Bell