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I used to go to the Bali Hai in the early 1970s. A great club next to the now closed Streatham Ice Rink. You could look down on the skaters from inside the club. Great music played, soul, Motown etc. Looking back, the '70s was a good era for the disco.

A memory of Streatham

I was born in Tatham Strret and then we lived on Milnrow Road where my parents owned a fireplace and china shop. I have many happy memories of my childhood there. I used to go next door to Harold the clog maker and play with the ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale in 1945 by Leonie Percival

MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to ...Read more

A memory of Llanhilleth by Derek Hughes

My family bought property between Colliers End & High Cross - about 5 acres. My dad used to stop there for tea after having biked from London to Cambridge and stopped on his way back to London. The acreage ...Read more

A memory of Colliers End in 1930 by Josie Gilpin Nee Stokes

I lived in Leeds from birth in 1958 to the time I left in 1977 to seek my fortune in London. Still here but as poor as when I left Leeds all those years ago. Lewis's for me was the best shopping store in Leeds I used to go there ...Read more

A memory of Leeds in 1970 by Jack Wallace

My first memories of Salford are living at 40 Moorfield Rd - just down the road was Holy Angels Church. I went to the brownies there and remember doing the maypole on the green outside the church. I went to St Johns Primary ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1960 by Janet Durham

My father was killed in the early part of the war, therefore my mum had to go to work and find a nursery placement for me. We lived in Caterham-on-the-Hill and the nearest nursery was Downlands, at Old Coulsdon. ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1940 by Valerie Woolard

In 1971 Elizabeth and I bought our first home in Robyns Way backing on to these lakes. Sevenoaks Urban District Council charged residents half a crown (two shillings and sixpence) annual rent, ...Read more

A memory of Sevenoaks in 1971 by John Howard Norfolk

My grandparents, lived in Lower South Wraxall all their married life. They were married in St James Church and are buried in the churchyard, along with their son Harald. Their daughter Emily (Sis) as she was known, sang in the ...Read more

A memory of South Wraxall in 1959 by Rosamond Farley

I remember attending the village school opposite Holy Trinity Church of which I was a chior boy for a few years. We had a local football team made up of choristors - we were very good. I lived at the bottom of the village in ...Read more

A memory of Long Itchington in 1950 by Roger Sheasby