Search Results

I grew up with the story of my great-grandfather Thomas Handley coming back from India and living at Kenmuir Castle with his wife Agnes Gordon Handley (nee Bain). In 2005 my sister and I came to Scotland with ...Read more

A memory of New Galloway in 2005 by Pamela Pilgrim

I remember as a little kid in the 50's going through Borsdane Wood with my mam n' Aunty Liza - we'd take egg n' tomato butties with us and always head for the Flag Bottom. This was our cheap holiday / Wigan week, I think ...Read more

A memory of Hindley in 1951 by Ray Mac

I remember Mr Crossland reading two books to our class on an afternoon. One was Wind on the Moon and the other The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. I remember Mr Perry, Mr Taylor, Miss Hutchinson, Miss Hingley , Miss Reid ( who terrified me) and ...Read more

A memory of Selby by hartas4

Eileen Handley My father was born in 1937 in Birmingham, UK. He had an older brother Gordon (known as Tom) and a baby sister Eileen. When my dad was 4 years old, his mother (Amy) died from Bronchial Pneumonia. His father ...Read more

A memory of Birmingham by Pam Jacobs

My father was transferred to Handley Page, Radlett from London in 1955. We moved to Bricket Wood where I lived until I got married in 1970. Remember playing on the swings and roundabout on the green, which was opposite ...Read more

A memory of Bricket Wood by Denise Large

Yes the Queen's Head at Nutfield took a lot of money off the hard working Monotype apprentices. I was one of them. I am Graham Bourne. Terry Hindley and I would spend many a happy hour plus after overtime at "the Type" on ...Read more

A memory of Nutfield in 1970 by Graham Bourne

Hello from Norway. I was living in Shepshed 1962-1963, and bacame to be a friend of Jack salmon, was often in the Garage. Remember his butiful Red Sports car Allard. I was pupil at Hind leys Secondary Modern School. I had a NSU Quikly with a noisy silenser witch the Police did not like.

A memory of Shepshed by bgjestla

We arrived from Sorbie on a cold and wet November afternoon in 1937. The house was empty as our furniture had not yet arrived. However within the hour the lorry (truck) that contained our ...Read more

A memory of Deanston in 1930 by Fionn Young

I grew up in Woodhouse Eaves from 1943-53, living in Beacon Road, number 65. My grandfather Handley lived in the last house in that row of white cement-rendered houses, it had the only garage in the row in which he kept his ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Michael Handley

Joined the school in 1939 in 3A. I remember Miss Peters, a Cambridge graduate, who taught English, Mr Pidcott who taught Maths, Mr. Goody History. It was a very happy school. I still see Favel ...Read more

A memory of Earlestown in 1930 by Winifred Chisholm(Née Smith