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My twin sister and me were brought up in Hixon from babies till we were about 10, we were known as the Taylor Twins. We first lived with our nan in the house that stands at the top of Smithie Lane and Featherbed Lane, we then moved into ...Read more

A memory of Hixon in 1954 by Trudy Allsop

The building behind and to the left is the home of Dr Ruxton, who killed his wife and maid in 1935, chopped them up, and distributed them around Moffat in Dumfries. They hanged him, of course, and the bath where he chopped them up was taken to be a horse trough at Preston Police HQ.

A memory of Lancaster

The ballroom had huge paintings on the walls. In particular I recall one of Sir Walter Raleigh. The patients' dining room had those lovely murals. We were issued a key which unlocked all of the doors in the hospital and ...Read more

A memory of Virginia Water in 1961 by Patricia Hampton

I went to West Preston Manor school in 1959, first as a boarder and then as a day girl. It was a fine old manor house where the dormitories were and on the ground floor, the classrooms. In the basement was the dining room ...Read more

A memory of Rustington in 1959 by Patricia Carruthers

I am Ian Robinson and I worked at Land and Sea and then the Tarantella in 1965 with a guy called Rob Smedley the Tarantella was managed by a Mrs Olwyn Robinson and I think the owner was called Preston though I am not too sure of that. Does ...Read more

A memory of Abersoch by Ian Robinson

I also lived and was brought up in Jersey Marine. I Eric Holder lived at 26, St Margaret's Avenue with my mum and dad in the 1960, as Alan as mentioned use to go fishing a lot as canal was on doorstep. My best mates were ...Read more

A memory of Jersey Marine by eric.holder

I lived at 3 Briar Lane from birth in 1951 until we moved to Derby in 1962. I went to Forest Street primary and remember some of the teachers, Palin, Woodward and the evil head teacher Mr. Ackerley who delighted in ...Read more

A memory of Weaverham by steve

I think that this is a photo of the (then) newly built John Perrin Place flats. This unremarkable construction was built on the site of the centuries old Lyon's Farm, which was torn down for the purpose. The farm was ...Read more

A memory of Kenton by The Laird

I spent a lot of my childhood at my G.Grandmother's auld hoose in the High Street, Linlithgow across the road from Alva House. Through a close, a Mrs Swan lived up right and Liza Dalrymple on the left. Next door was a Jimmie ...Read more

A memory of Linlithgow in 1940 by Connie Telfer Smith

In my father's diary for 1952 - I have all his diaries here in Frankfurt, Germany, where I have lived since 1973 - there is an entry : Stanley Watson, Governor of the Harris Orphanage, was sent for trial. ...Read more

A memory of Preston in 1952 by Diana Dioszeghy