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I've put "1948" as the date as that's about the earliest I remember Corts Ltd, on the corner of Cheapside and Silver Street in this photo. The ironmongers and builders merchants business (formerly Cort & Paul until ...Read more

A memory of Leicester in 1948 by John Ling

12 years ago, I found a new family that I didn't know I had, including a half sister! My gran had died at only 32 in Carlisle and my grandad moved to Grangemouth when he married his second wife. I thought that my dad ...Read more

A memory of Grangemouth by Angela Bolton

I lived with my parents in the right hand side of the white house shown above (almost opposite the W & D bus station) from 1938-57. The house to the left with a hedge around the door was a small ...Read more

A memory of Amesbury in 1940 by Pamela Chaldecott

My parents bought Church Farm in 1957 and Robert Pearson farmed here till he died in 1997. The ideal environment for my children Mark and Sarah to be brought up in. Animals and fresh air so sadly missed by youngsters nowadays.

A memory of Somerton in 1957 by Stuart Pearson

I too was born at the Green Hedges nursing home during the war, though obviously I have no memories of it and have never returned. My father was in the army at the time and I have photos of him and my mother holding me ...Read more

A memory of Ditchling in 1941

I was born in Holmfield in 1934. I went to Moorside School and later Princess Mary High School in Parkinson Lane. I was married in St.Mary's Church, Illingworth in 1954 and lived for a short time back at the home of my birth in ...Read more

A memory of Halifax in 1940 by Brenda Hodgson

Living toward the end of Frank Bott Avenue, just before the circle where the road bends round into Rigby Avenue. With mum, Doreen, Dad, Cyril (he adopted Cyril as his first name because he didn't like the thought of his christian ...Read more

A memory of Crewe by Kevin Waine

Can anyone help me with my search. I'm looking for any photos old or newish of the Grange cemetery. The reason I am asking for photos is I am helping a vicar in the USA trace his gt,gt, gt, grandfather - the ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1920 by Valerie Waring

I have picked 1953 because I was ten then. My father, Willie, was a Hughes and my mother, Ekbery, was a Farrell. There were loads of us in the Ferry. I lived in 9 St John St then we moved the 5 Louden ...Read more

A memory of Creetown in 1953 by Howard Hughes

My family's ancestors come from countryside around Harewood and one of the oldest I have identified was John Norfolk who lived in Eccup in the late 1600's. I have seen several of ...Read more

A memory of Eccup by John Howard Norfolk