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Forgot to mention that in those days there was Jones Fish and Chips, opposite the school. My mum cleaned and peeled potatoes and I would press the potatoes into chips with a hand press over a grid thus making chips when you ...Read more

A memory of Mangotsfield by mikeel

Each year, the excitement mounted as summer drew near. Dad would drag out the large wicker hamper and Mum would start to fill it with clothes, wellies and tins of food from Galbraiths or the Co-op. By school's end, the carriers ...Read more

A memory of Dunoon

My mum ran the raga muffin second hand shop in the satisfied from 1971 It was relocated when the new saimsbury a was opened in the mid eighties. I remember elliot butcher shop in West Street and the fish shop in swan street. Wales the ...Read more

A memory of Warwick by eaugerr

The butchers across from Cuffs used to have sawdust and a very distinct smell, nevr smelt since

A memory of Woolwich by romasembi

I went to live in Findern in 1967,my first home after getting married in Crewe in Cheshire. My then husband and I had got jobs at Rolls Royce in Derby. I have very fond memories of the village then. We lived in a newish three ...Read more

A memory of Findern in 1967 by Cynthia Oldham

I remember living in Bells Close from early 70 to mid 80s, in fact I delivered papers to Bells Close and Sugley from the paper shop that used to be along from the new Lemington Centre, on the block that ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1977 by Michael March

My grandparents Fred and Rosa Clarke lived in Lessingham Avenue. My mother Peggy also lived there is until her marriage to Sydney George Compton. I am their daughter Jeanette and I have a brother Terry. My parents are now dead. ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1945 by Jeanette Smith

My Father Frank Garrett was stationed, very early in the Second World War, in an Army Camp in the Treacle Bolly area, west of Malborough. As a Butcher by trade he was a, or maybe the ‘Mess’ Butcher for a field Mess, I think, in the ...Read more

A memory of Malborough in 1940

I my name is Brian Jones i used to live in forge st i was born in 1952 i went to lower rhymney infants school and wellington school then to the annexe i was friends with David davage. Phillip price. Ieighton Walters also Keith jarman ...Read more

A memory of Rhymney by ann.jones53

I was an evacuee to Cefn |Hengoed, My mother said that |I was 6weeks old when we got there and I was born beginning of November 1940. I understand that after being placed with different families we finished living with Mr & Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Cefn Hengoed by patcheeseman