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hello to all . my name is denis Archibald steel ,I was born in 1940 at 365 Cumberland street gorbals. when I was 4yrs old my granny who was looking after me ,fell from the kitchen sink and broke her leg .she was carted of to hospital .as ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1944 by Denis Steel

I was 9 when we returned from Australia in the summer of 1967, we lived at 37 Farley Road after three different houses in Littleheath Road all belonging to friends of my parents, who conveniently were away on holiday by consecutive ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Cooper

Bramley In The Years 1951 To 1967 A conversation with Lynden Flint From: john.holliday11@btopenworld.com To: Lynden Flint Hi Lynden. I do hope you are well and still on-line. I ...Read more

A memory of Bramley by john.holliday11

We moved from Willesden in London to Kingrichards Road, Leicester when I was 5 yrs old in 1965. I went to King Richards Infants with my brother, Wayne. The building I think was something to do with a church, I think, an old ...Read more

A memory of Leicester in 1965 by Tina Mile

Moving from a house made of earth and straw in Walcote to new Prefab in Dunley Way and later moving to Denbigh Place. Growing Potatoes and Marrows in the garden. Father (Norman) worked at Power Jets on secret jet engines. ...Read more

A memory of Lutterworth in 1940 by David Walker

After we were bombed out in London my parents bought a house in Romford, Essex. My father was working for the Ford Motor Company that had converted its assembly lines to manufacture Bren gun carriers and other war time vehicles. ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1940 by Ray Tricker

The (Roman) road going down to Buttsole and then to Dover or Deal and Updown Cricket field to the left, was sometimes blocked by farmworkers guiding their sheep from one pasture to another through the village ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

We moved to Brampton in August 1949 when my father (an RAF officer) was posted there from RAF Wharton nr Lytham St Annes. My sister was three weeks old - and my mum only just recovering from a difficult birth after also just ...Read more

A memory of Brampton in 1951

I was born at Low Westwood, a small mining village in the North East of England in 1955 – well, when I say I was born there, that’s not entirely true. Unlike today, children were born at ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1960 by Kathy Aveyard

I stayed as a foreign (Belgian) educational psychologist during six weeks in Brockall hospital, where my tutor was Doctor Gordon Bland.

A memory of Langho in 1974 by Johan Cnudde