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I was posted to Buntingsdale Hall after passing out as a WOP/TOP in February 1948. We worked at the Teleprinter Switchboard Exchange but unfortunately, after a few weeks this closed down, presumably due to lack of demand. ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1948 by Douglas Holt

I too trained at RHG from 1963-1966 and I don't think any training these days could surpass the excellent training I received there. It was hard work but fun and I learned a lot and met some lovely people along the way. I ...Read more

A memory of Redhill by Pauline Fiorentino

This is a photo of Aelwyd Amanw, Brynaman. Brynaman was the first place in Wales to have its own building for running a branch of Urdd Gobaith Cymru. Although a branch of Urdd Gobaith Cymru had been established in the village since ...Read more

A memory of Brynamman by Sarah Hopkin

Oh the memories of many, many brilliant gigs back in the 70s & 80s. In fact, so many I am in the process of putting together a book entitled The Pavilion Rock Years. I am keen to hear from anyone with memories of gigs/concerts ...Read more

A memory of Hemel Hempstead by Neil Thompson

Hi, I can see that Janet Lee has posted some info, I am wondering if you are the older sister of Patricia Lee or perhaps another relative. Their family emigrated to Australia on the Canberra some time in the early 1960s. I was also a ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by Debra Richards

Being conceived at the end of the war I don't have memories of it of course, but my late brother, my mum and sister had lots. The only street party I remember was the Queen's one in Mostyn Road where we all got a cup with ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1953 by Fred East

This is the place where in the early 1960s I took my mother to visit and stay with her sister Bertha. During our stay my mother and Bertha (there was another sister called Freda, she moved ...Read more

A memory of Misterton by Anthony Spracklen

My mother's father and mother Mr & Mrs Tom Dibble lived in the Cooperage, Stockland. Thomas's parents Thomas snr and Jane (nee) Palmer had children Sam, George from the Old Oak pub on the Cornhill, Mary + Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Woolavington in 1930 by Audrey Spearing

Actually this memory via my father and grandfather go back further than 1860. My great-great-grandfather, Richard Seanor, got interested in match making and went to London to find out the process etc. He then came back to ...Read more

A memory of Rothwell in 1860 by Eric Seanor

I moved to live in one of the houses shown in the background of this picture around 1964/65. Rushcroft was a council estate and my father worked in a cotton mill and my mother worked at the Osram mill in town, making ...Read more

A memory of Shaw in 1965 by Diane Ferguson