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I remember the Chichester Festival Theatre opening in 1962. I went to see several plays there over the years. One I remember well was The Royal Hunt of the Sun. Later, in the early 70s I worked there for 2 years first ...Read more

A memory of Chichester by Sylvia Ashton

Hello everyone-- i am hoping someone out there can help me trace a very dear friend from Grangetown -- let me add my memory -- i live in South Wales but in the early 1960 i lived with my aunt in Eston but i became very ...Read more

A memory of Grangetown by eugenebowen977

I remember as a lad,every Sunday morning trying to get a game of soccer in Smirthwaite parl,there must have been 20 a side in them days,and the bowling matches,where the women would put on tea and buns ,and most of the older men seemed to ...Read more

A memory of Normanton

In September 1948 the Morton family moved into a brand new council house at number 3 Coopers Close Chigwell Row. Our father Ronal Morton and his wife Evelyn with my brothers Andrew and Douglas, shortly followed ...Read more

A memory of Chigwell Row by fionaavalon

I am writing in the hope that someone can shed some light on my maternal grandmother, Ethel Mary Wright. Ethel was admitted to St Peter's Home, Kilburn in January 1926. The admissions register when being admitted to St ...Read more

A memory of Widmer End by malcp

We moved to Park Farm Kettlethorpe when I was 7. The family at this time was reduced to Mum and Dad, Eileen, Brian, Maureen and Gillian. At first we lived in a semi detatched house at the top of the ...Read more

A memory of Kettlethorpe in 1955 by Gillian Emerton

My Great Great Grandparents were William and Elizabeth Pratt. In the 1880s William and his family had lived and worked on the Longleat Estate, William was the Head Gardener at that time. In 1891 they moved to Bath, and sadly William died ...Read more

A memory of Bath in 1890 by Clive Pratt

My name is Orin, Belgian born, and I lived at 68 Hazelmire Road, we lived right behind Petts Wood woods, there was a tree which we called the Crocodile, I still have a piece of this fallen tree...so many beautiful memories, although it ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood by Orin Verkempinck

Used to love playing in the park on the swings, in the Sandpitand just generally walking about. Remember the Peacocks and other birds. Remember the Holiday at Home Weeks? All started with the procession from Parkgate through Rawmarsh up ...Read more

A memory of Rawmarsh in 1960 by Peter Bell

In 1941, shortly before my sixth birthday, I arrived at what was then a large branch of the National Children's Home & Orphanage, at Old Bramhope. To get there I had enjoyed an exciting (for me) train journey from Kings Cross ...Read more

A memory of Bramhope in 1930 by Peter John Ashman