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My mother, Betty Cronin, was the head teacher at Dunsfold School from around 1951 to 1958 and I lived in the schoolhouse with her and my sister Susan during this period. Both my sister and I went to school in ...Read more

A memory of Dunsfold by Patrick Cronin

From Machen junior mixed to Bassaleg in 1959 ( I think) this reminds me of being 'initiated' by being chucked down the bank. fond memories of my stay there but not of the then headmaster-Penry-Reese- He was hopeless. Other ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg by Peter Dutton

I was there around that time as well. I remember Mr and Mrs braband he was the maintenance man. I worked with him whilst there. I was in Wake to start with and then in founders after wake closed then went back when I was coming up to leave. ...Read more

A memory of Tiffield by Kerry Hart

My uncle Des emigrated from Dublin to Coronation Drive, Bolton On Dearne in 1950, he became a miner. In the course of writing letters home he told my mam that the streets of Bolton on Dearne were paved with gold, he had actually ...Read more

A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne by Liam Doyle

My parents ran a shop on the Broadway from the late nineteen forties until the early fifties, I think. It was a general store and – as far as I know – a seed ...Read more

A memory of Broadstone by Robert Milne

I’ve just found this website, I had already spoken to Thomsons after finding out about case and seeing it in the daily record. I had a terrible abusive childhood and I was sent to Fornethy several times from 1971 - ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by Sandra Arnott

I remember long hot summers back then 1960’s playing in Crago’s barn just outside of village and picking primroses down the hill at Treburgy Water with my sister .. we had to fill a basket and then when we got home we had ...Read more

A memory of Dobwalls by Janice Webb

While sorting through some old photographs from the 1950s when I was in England and Europe with two girlfriends from Western Australia, some of the Southlands school were among them. So we did an ...Read more

A memory of Harrow on the Hill by Lynette Cornish

The girl in the foreground could easily be me with one of my brothers in his pram. It was usual to be left outside the shop to look after one or all of my brothers - and of course very safe to do so - when my mum went inside to ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster

From 1947 I lived in Bedford Road at the top of East Hill but my maternal grandparents lived in the prefabs at the other end of town. The name Blackmans Close sticks in my mind for some reason but I’m not sure if it’s my memory playing tricks ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by Michael Swanton