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This is a long shot. I am tracing my family tree, I live in the Wirral. My great grandparents were Walter Waring and Alice Waring (nee Reed). Alice Waring was living on a farm in Childerthornton, Wirral, when ...Read more

A memory of Litchfield in 1890 by Valerie Waring

I used to catch the school bus to Castleford at the White Swan on the left; this was re-built in the early 1900s. The Royal Oak on the far right was originally opposite the Swan where the fish shop is. The "new" Royal Oak (now closed) ...Read more

A memory of Kippax in 1964 by Robert Clayton

My mum found this site, and wow. I lived in Instone when I was 7 on the 9th floor with my mum, brother and sister, then we moved to Vulcan Close. We used to spend all our time over the field and on the decks, there used to be a van ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1970 by Theresa Kelly

Earliest memories... staying home from school (Church School now Russell Hall) in the winter because the boiler had burst. Swinging on my gran's gate on Highfield Terrace, and playing with a teaset and dolls pram in her house, and ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury by Margaret Stork

I am delighted to add a memory to this page. From 1952, (aged 5 years), I had T.B. and eventually went in January 1958, for 6 months, to Heswall Childrens Hospital.I was in the Florence Gibson Ward, and was looked ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1958 by Linda Williams

This view is instantly familiar! There was a sweet shop right there which was a favourite destination on walks into the village. I lived with my family in Hoo for two or three years in the late 1950s. My father was Eric Cox; my ...Read more

A memory of Hoo in 1958 by Susan Cox

I was a patient at the Sanatorium, the first time was when I was between 10 and 11 years old. I would have been there about 9 months at that time. I remember the apple orchard and there was an apple storage room. The ...Read more

A memory of Chandler's Ford in 1952 by Jean Long

I remember Heswell as a patient - Sylivia was my best friend and she had asthma - we were on the HOT ward. Get in touch Sylvia, if you remember too. What did HOT stand for? I remember being very frightened and not ...Read more

A memory of Heswall by Ruth Neil

My father, Dr Joe Hampson, was the Gp in Gilfach in the late 1930s/early 1940s. He was Irish and born in Lucan just outside Dublin. He qualified from the College of Surgeons in 1932. He met my mother, Frances Pugsley, ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1940 by Aidan Hampson

We lived on Red Hill from 1964 for 21 years. Both our daughters attended the school illustrated. Our house is now a busy doctors' surgery. Many of the houses in the village were taken down for the building of a large Sainsbury's ...Read more

A memory of Chislehurst in 1964