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My Mom and my aunt were placed in care in St. Joseph's. My mother never spoke of it and my aunt only started telling us (my sisters and me) shortly before she died. We believe their mother and grandmother were financially ...Read more

A memory of Darlington in 1930 by Lois Syrek

This photo shows the shop where I was born in the 1950's - my mum's name is on the sign above the shop, June Veronica Hicks. The photo must be after 1964 as it was my dad's,John Hicks's Newsagents shop & that was the year he died. ...Read more

A memory of Feckenham in 1964 by Jayne Walker

I was a pupil for two years at Laleham Abbey. My maiden name being, Elsa-Marie Burberry - Elsa. I was friends with Phyllis Baker who I remember as having beautiful auburn-red hair and who I think came from Totteridge. Other ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1956 by Elsa Marie Kitching

Actually it was not Stairfoot but Lundwood. I met a young girl at the Barnsley fairground and it may have been love at first sight and we were to be married at the Barnsley Town Hall but after a few years of us being married ...Read more

A memory of Stairfoot in 1975 by Roland Mitchell

I left Caerphilly in 1955 to join the Royal Airforce. Prior to this I worked for AJ Marshall Wholesale Confectioners in Castle Street. I went to school at The Twyn Secondary Modern as it was then known. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Caerphilly in 1955

I really remember the fish & chip shop, the stuffed alligator; kids were scared of it apart from me. I also recall how nasty that short Greek woman from the fish & chip shop was. One early ...Read more

A memory of Splott in 1965 by Lynette Carter

Who remembers the travelling fun fair that came to Blackfield in the 1960s? Did you go to Blackfield Junior school? What about skating on the frozen Gravel pits at Holbury in the winter 1962/3/4 or the Esso Cinema? or the ...Read more

A memory of Holbury in 1960 by Julian Bishop

I remember the old funeral home on Jackson Street, or as I knew it as, Jackson Chare, eee it was a long time ago, old man died there in what is now the Co-op, died there shortly after he opened it one day, long ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Ronnie Taylor

After the Second World War and during the austere period of rationing, among the items that were in short supply was coal. People would burn anything in order to keep warm, and many were the trips that I made ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1947 by Frank Mowforth

I was at Wath Grammar School from 1952 until 1959. I have lots of lovely memories of my time there. In particular my teachers and school friends. I loved Barbara Swan - Geography teacher, Hetty Clewes (nee Upton) - history, ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1954 by Kenneth Tune