Search Results

I moved with my parents from Preston to Blackburn in 1946 We lived on Park Avenue off Shear Brow attended Four Lanes End CP School on Revidge Road where I was very happy My recollections of that school was a teacher called Mr ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn

My mother, Margaret (Peggy) Goulden nee Gray went to Manchester during the war with Maud Blackburn who lived off Scotsford Road. She lost touch with her many years ago and today mentioned her. Any information would be gratefully received.

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne by Anne Goulden

Some names have come flooding back after reading memories of Harold Hill and I wonder if they mean anything to anybody? Would love to hear from anybody. Alan Tremain Brenda Lovering Brenda Sellwood David ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by bobnobes

Born in Dunfermline in 1946, but we lived in Cowdenbeath at 45 Blackburn Drive - in a postwar aluminum prefab. Attended Foulford School from '51 to '54 when we emigrated to Canada. I remember the "tunnel" open to the front of the ...Read more

A memory of Cowdenbeath

I am trying to make contact with any close family or friends of the late Bryan Sharples and his late wife Sarah (Sally) McKinnell. Bryan was born in Blackburn in 1932, served with the 11th Hussars in the Regimental ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn by kgmr221256

I lived on Grosvenor Road, Urmston - the allotment end - from 1965 to late 1969 age 3 to nearly 8 years of age with my 2 brothers and parents (we then moved to Blackburn). My daughter has recently ...Read more

A memory of Urmston by magwat13

I moved to Old Langho in I think in 1954, I was an orphan I went to live with Mr and Mrs Pye. We lived at number 42 Larkhill, Mr and Mrs Pye where nurses at Brockhall hospital. There is a bit of a field between the two ...Read more

A memory of Old Langho by Terence Pye

especially Kitty who went to Lavender hill school and moved away to Suffolk in 1967/68

A memory of Battersea by Margaret Whymark

1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...Read more

A memory of Market Harborough by Keith Luckman

I moved to Ireland Wood from Portsmouth when I was 4 years old with my Mum and dad who was in the navy. We lived at 42 Raynel Way. The house was built by the Council. Most of the houses like ours were made of prefabricated concrete ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge by Robert Morris