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My dad bought a brand new house on Craigwell Avenue in 1956. Builder was William Old. I was 4. The house was blue and yellow, 4 houses up on the left from Newberries Avenue. The construction went on for at least two years after moving ...Read more

A memory of Radlett in 1956 by Robin Thompson

My only son, James ,was born in Glenroyd Maternity Hospital in March 1964 weighing in at a tiny 5lb 4 oz. In the next bed, I had made friends with a lady whose mammoth son born a day later, weighing 17lbs! I promised that my Jamie ...Read more

A memory of Blackpool in 1964 by Jackie Worrall

Although I moved from Prestbury to Gloucester in 1966 when I got married, then to Somerset in 1967. Prestbury has always held a special place in my heart, I always call it my home. I lived in a small cottage in ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury by Pat Procter

My Grandmother owned 2 bungalows on Newton Beach, one being a converted bus which was called "The Chalet" and the other was named "Duneside". She lived there between the months of April and October, and I spent ...Read more

A memory of Newton by gjhanson

It's 1972, I know that because I am the two year old baby in the pram back in the days when mothers had no fear of leaving their children out side of shops, the reason being that the shop aisles were too narrow to get a pram down

A memory of Cwmbran by darrenhallewell

I was born in 1947 and moved to Welling in 1951. I feel very lucky to have been a teenager in the 60s when music for us really started to take off. I was a massive Beatles fan but loved the other stuff as well. Went to the ...Read more

A memory of Welling by edwin.burkett

I also remember the unforgettable Joe Wyche the headmaster of Poynton School which I attended in 1958. A baby boomer whose class who had no fixed classroom and had to be situated in the school assembly hall due to huge numbers of ...Read more

A memory of Poynton by driscoll.pamela

Does anyone remember a Church of England home for unmarried mothers? There appears to be no mention of one in history pages, and no record of the poor girls who left their babies there.

A memory of West Ham in 1957

In 1955, several Air Force families stationed variously at Alconbury and Molesworth Air Force Bases in England found themselves renting flats (apts) in a Jacobean Manor House in the English Countryside. The landlady, ...Read more

A memory of Wadenhoe in 1955 by Perle Champion

I was born in Mitcham in 1929 and lived as a baby in Queens Road aka "rocky" or "Rocks Terrace" my Grandfather was called Truelove and had a shop in Queens Road. Hard to belive now but a horse and cart owner would stop ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1930 by Derek Jones