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Reading someone else's comment about Oak Bank School I am fascinated by their memory. I went to what I only remember as an Open Air School in Seal when I was very young. Don't know what for but think I was a sickly child and this ...Read more

A memory of Seal by Virginia Haywood

I lived in Froggatt from the year I was born,1942, to 1956. My grandmother, Mrs McDonald, ran the shop in the village. I attended Curbar Primary School, a gang of us used to walk it there and back every day, come rain, snow or ...Read more

A memory of Froggatt by Chris Webb

I remember going to the youth club, we had to to take our own records there, in one room was the pool table and in the other room was a a record player that we played our records on, it was behind the Co-op. I also remember going to ...Read more

A memory of Menstrie in 1965 by Isobel Steele ( Brown )

I have sepia photos of Overstone - somewhere, I wonder if it is possible that they are Francis Frith images? I have a b&w photo of my mum, my brother and myself sitting in front of a bank of daffodills, I think it was taken on a ...Read more

A memory of Overstone in 1952 by Suzanne Hughes Owen

The water meadows have many happy memories. We bought the wired stopper Corona Lemonade in the village shop run at that time by Mrs Hunt. This was carefully carried to the stream and placed in it where the little 'island' is ...Read more

A memory of Chilbolton in 1950

We were happy and dirty, playing in the streets, making rafts out of lollipop sticks after the rain with mud, going the the old rec park to watch a Punch and Judy show, also playing in the sand pit where I lost my shoes, went home ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1956 by Barbara Fisher Nee Wilson

With big hugs from waiting family on one of the many platforms that was Central Station, we hurried though the noise and clouds of steam towards the station exit and into the sunlight...my eyes ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1940 by Raymond Hay

On the 24th March 1962 we had our wedding reception at The Lord Nelson Hotel. We invited 50 guests and were on a very tight budget but The Lord Nelson did us proud. Next year we will be celebrating our 50th Wedding ...Read more

A memory of Nelson in 1962 by Marion Warn

I was born in Merthyr Tydfil but my grandparents lived in Rees Terrace. My grandfather, Hugh Price Watkins, was the St John Ambulance driver for the pits. I lived and went to school in Llanbradach for about three months ...Read more

A memory of Llanbradach in 1940 by Lionel Drew

My Nana and Grandad Evelyn and Tom Gordon Walton, my dad's parents, retired to Alder Cottage, Crook Bank, Theddlethorpe. As a child I lived in a cottage in the grounds until moving away. But my brothers ...Read more

A memory of Theddlethorpe St Helen in 1950 by Myra Turner