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On the other side of the road from this photo (Barncroft) was a shop known as Bob Day's. A tiny shop with a thatch roof and still standing but unused for many years. As a young school boy I would buy penny sweets with pocket money from Bobs on a Saturday morning with other friends.

A memory of Cossington in 1966 by Paul Howard

From 1935 to 1941 I was a pupil at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Crediton, travelling every day by train from Morchard Road Station, leaving home at ten minutes past eight to board the eight thirty ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland

Hello, I now live in Co. Waterford. I gave my name as I was known in 1949. I lived with my Gran - Annie Evans - & Grandad Will at 26 Bryn Terrace, almost at the top. Grandad was a miner (he went underground at 11 years of ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1950

Hi, is there anyone out there that remembers the Orphanage? I had some of the best years of my life there. It was run by a Mr Howarth and his wife, and there were seven houses for the boys and the same for the girls. I ...Read more

A memory of Fulwood in 1952 by Frederick Porter

I was also in Denham Court for about a year in 1960. I remember Mr Hill. I actually enjoyed my time there. My dad had died and my Mum was in hospital for a long time. Coming from South London, I found the freedom and grounds of the ...Read more

A memory of Denham in 1960 by Brian Keating

I grew up in Splott, went to St Albans then Splott Road High. My dad had a hardware shop in Carlile Stret opposite Orsolinis the grocers. In 1970 we moved to Llanishen. In 1974 I moved back to Splott but boy how it had changed, the ...Read more

A memory of Splott in 1961 by Rocco Federico

I remember going to the dances at the Welfare Hall with my friends Dorothy Bridges and Margaret Wood, we all livedf at theMiners houses at 'North' it was called because all the streets began with an A. I ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1960 by Anne Dexter

Born in Chelmsford in 1946 I grew up in Gt. Yeldham but after a career in the Fleet Air Arm the flying side of the Royal Navy I settled in Somerset. The small town where I now reside though quite away from the ...Read more

A memory of Great Yeldham by John Waller

I was born in Fernham in 1936 in the thatched cottage on the green (now known as Corner Cottage, opposite the church), as was my mother before me. The house was my grandmother's, Mrs Mary Brown. My grandfather Harry ...Read more

A memory of Fernham in 1940 by Terry White

Boy, that pic brings back old times, I worked on the building of that bridge and the demolition of the old transporter bridge. I was born in Runcorn in 1942, Stonehills Crescent.

A memory of Runcorn by John Millward