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I was born in White Road in 1951 and went first to the nursery at Grace Road, where I remember a climbing net which was outside on a frame of some kind. It seemed huge. We had little blue camp beds ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook by magfrancis

I would ha e been about eight years old when we came to Fairbourne in about1955 there was my mum and dad my three sisters and four brothers we stayed in this lovely Railway camping coach i remember my eldest sister taking me ...Read more

A memory of Fairbourne by meg.gresswell

We stayed in a caravan at the camp in the 1950s Had to scramble down a very steep dirt track to the beach

A memory of Cayton Bay by Sylvia Fayers

Between late 1940 and 1944 my Father Andy Taiano and his best mate Ted Young , were the camp barbers.They gave the new recruits their first haircuts for king and country! He moved from S.E.London with my Mother. In ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp by panic4238

Between 1961 and 1964 I attended the The Matlock Teachers Training College at Rockside and was resident at Rockwood for 3 years. It was a wonderful time for me with my highlight being the co-organising of the double decker bus trip to ...Read more

A memory of Matlock by inclusivedriving

I went to old Harlow College during the war. I remember walking across the fields to Harlow Mill where us boys used to swim. It was a very strict college with prefects. It was run on the style of the Cambridge ...Read more

A memory of Harlow by bernard.hagon

Dad was at Hadrian's camp with the East Lancs. in the late 40's. we lived there & my sister was born in Carlisle in 1949. we also lived for a while in Moss Band. I dont know if there was an army camp there I was just a toddler. We emigrated to Australia on 1953

A memory of Calmore by davlin46

The gentleman in this photo is my grandfather Mr James William Arthur Reffold late of the Pump house that lays to his left behind the shop.the horses name is Jimmy he was a large ginger horse. I lived in Shackleford through the ...Read more

A memory of Shackleford by dreffold

I was there January 1957 to December 1958 so got demobbed 60 years ago next month. Anyone else still around?

A memory of Blandford Camp by Peter Pennington

Just come across this site,so many memories ,the odeon,Market hall,animal Market,swimming baths etc but also worked at Cowleys ironmongers on Saturday's,delivered papers from nearby papers shop on Sunday's.went to st Mathews ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1950 by Bryan Elphick