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I spent many hours in the park, not just playing, but the Scout Hut was there too. It was a wooden building with gas mantle lighting and a coke stove for the winter. In the summer the windows, which had metal bolted shutters over them, ...Read more

A memory of Shirley by andrewcrumplehorn

As children after my father was invalided out of the RAF he took a gardeners/maintenance job with a Mrs Hitchcock who lived in a large house in Hollywood Lane. She owned a thatched cottage nearby where we lived. It had a huge garden ...Read more

A memory of Wainscott by nita_luce

My father took a position with Costains, the big construction company. They had recently built several hundred semi-detached homes in a new development in Elm Park; Dad decided, as we needed a new place to live after ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Denman Lalonde

Ruby Gowen born Stokesby 1933 now known as Elizabeth Robinson. Among my early memories is being taken “down the Ferry” to see the steamship the Queen of the Broads go by. First in the distance the smoke would appear and ...Read more

A memory of Stokesby by lizbeth.robinson

i was born at larch terrace tantobie in1941 name harry hall i remember the old picture house the gaff i was in the boys brigade went to school tanfield lea and burnhopefield great days hard winters but we enjoyed them i now live in suffolk but will never forget tantobie

A memory of Tantobie by marion.hall2

My name is Arhur Brown and I moved to Potters Bar from Tottenham when i was about eight years old along with Mum Doris Dad Arthur and sisters Sylvia and Jeanette and two years later my brother Stephen arrived on the ...Read more

A memory of Potters Bar by Arthur David Brown

I was one of a family of Seven children(two girls and five boys) born to Louise and George Tawn. We first lived at Pinkney park where my father was employed as a farm bailif. Due to his affair with the farmers wife we were ...Read more

A memory of Malmesbury by mahoneyrosie21

I was born in December 1947 at 124 Clowes Street, West Gorton in a terraced house between William Street and Elizabeth Street, directly opposite Bert Hall's butcher's shop and next door to the Beswick ...Read more

A memory of West Gorton by clowesstreet

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 ...Read more

A memory of Kettlethorpe in 1955 by Gillian Emerton

On this photograph there is a little 'bump' on the horizon just below Warsett.  That 'bump'  is 3 railway cottages and my Dad lived in No. l with his parents and brother and sister around 1912 - 13ish when he was ...Read more

A memory of Saltburn-By-The-Sea in 1947 by Georgina Smiles