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I lived at the Cross House under a Mr Evans. My grandfather Bill Griffiths, and my father Willis Griffiths lived up the Dingle around the year 1916. My grandad Bill Griffiths, married a Mrs Ellway and lived there until the year 2000.

A memory of New Radnor in 1963 by Valerie Williams

It is my 'auld maw' that used to stay in Townhill, her maiden name was Lessells, my gran & di were Catherine & John, my mum was born in 1930, she too is Catherine (cath). There are ...Read more

A memory of Townhill in 1930 by Wendy Mcgeary

I was born in Holback, but moved to Farnley in 1959. I went to Lower Wortley School, as I remember there were prefabs for us little uns down at the bottom, next to the ringroad, then on to Silverroyd. I spent many a happy ...Read more

A memory of Lower Town in 1959 by Margaret Morris

Hi, Just looking at some old family photos of us fishing by the Swans Neck at Birlingham back in the early 60s when I was about 12. I come from Birmingham and the place my father worked was Mitchells and Butlers brewery who ...Read more

A memory of Birlingham by Michael Lewis

Hello, I was born in Crewe in 1947 and lived in Lockett St with my mother and father and 3 brothers. When I was about 3 or 4 we moved to the village of Weston about 3 miles from Crewe. We lived in Weston till 1963, ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1960 by Alan Pitchford

I love Binstead, met my first wife there Carole, who lived in Beatrice Close. We walked all around the village but the best walk was from the Church of the Holy Cross up to Ladies Walk, a truly beautiful place which I still enjoy at ...Read more

A memory of Binstead in 1960 by John Smith

Back in 1971, I joined a friend from London on a surfing trip to Polzeath. I'm from America, and was in the middle of a year-long jaunt around Europe and North Africa. I hadn't gone surfing in several months and was ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath in 1971 by Joel Sanoff

I was born at West Middx. Hosp in 1940. Christened at St. Mary's Church, Osterley. I lived in Syon Park Gardens until I was 34. I remember Thornbury Road and can remember some of ...Read more

A memory of Osterley by Clive Warneford

I have vivid memories of Tolworth Broadway. As a child I was born in Tolworth (strictly Kingston Hospital in April 1948 just for my birth that is). Mum, my sister and I would go to the Broadway ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by Christine Roberts

I was the born at the Green in Wallsend. I used to live in Holy Cross and I remember the burn, the old cemetery at the top of our road and shopping on Wallsend High Street. My dad was a supervisor at the Rising Sun Pit. We also ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by Lesley Kovacs