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One of Bradford’s famous literary sons was the author and playwright J B Priestley, who was born in Mannheim Road, Bradford, on 13 September 1894. J B Priestley provided Britain with a rather strange ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1940 by Julia Skinner

I was born in 1951 and lived for the first 2 years of my life at 241 the Blocks with my parents and Grandparents. This was a 2 up 2 down + attic house in a block of 3 situated on the bottom row of the blocks, now demolished. ...Read more

A memory of Barrow Hill in 1951 by Paul Gibbons

"The Providence", as it was commonly known, stood at the corner of Laundry Yard and The Lynch. Built in 1795 with a later facade it was a gem of late georgian "chapel" architecture. You entered through a ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1955 by Philip Cousins

So I said, listen Nitty, straighten your hair-net, pull up your stockings and pin back your lug holes.

A memory of North Reddish

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage

Training Pit Ponies at Ryhope Oxclose was a row of 5 terraced houses owned by the Colliery and located at the top of the lane which passed the eastern side of the Cricket field. At the Western end of 5 terraced ...Read more

A memory of Ryhope by harrydhx

At 5 years old I went on a school bus from Charwelton to Preston Capes school. It was 1 big classroom with coke fires and an outside toilet. Mrs Smith taught all the children of mixed ages. She had 2 blackboards, one was ...Read more

A memory of Preston Capes

This picture takes me back! It was around 1962 and I was 11 years old. We travelled down to Clacton from South Harrow on a Valiant Cronshaw coach which we caught outside a pub in Northolt - The Plough, I think it ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea by Paul Starck

I was born here in Newton Green and lived in the house just visible on the left - the last one. It was called Cotswold. The village shop was run by Mark Wilson and that could be him in the photograph, tinkering with the ...Read more

A memory of Newton in 1957 by Pete Rowland

In 1979 my then boyfriend and I viewed Brightwells Cottage in The Square at Sutton Scotney. It was, to put it bluntly, a hovel ... mud floors, lead covered wiring, an Elsan Toilet and holes in the thatch, but we loved it. ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Scotney by Kim Burnett