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I attended the old primary school via School Lane through the 1930s and early 1940s, the teachers were E L Richards (head), Mr Withers, Miss Austen, Miss Lewis. The school by the old canal was a very happy school, and through ...Read more

A memory of Gilwern in 1930 by George Evans

My grandfather, John James Lewis, was Station Master at Builth Road station and lived at Station Villa, (the first house in Railway Terrace). I was born at Station Villa myself, and lived there with my mother and sister, Helen, ...Read more

A memory of Builth Road in 1947 by Jennifer Lewis Haakonsen

I was born in Ashington in 1940 and moved to 10 Wood Row, North Seaton Colliery with my mam and dad Sadie and Harry Seymour, my brother Gordon and sister Joan. I remember that the street was full of rats ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton in 1945 by Harry Seymour

Memories are the garnish of our later years... During my extreme youth, the closest we ever got to a summer holiday was a week spent with our maternal grandparents. My father would trundle us through to their ...Read more

A memory of Felixstowe in 1957 by Mo Haarhoff

Any news /photos/records of Uxmore Farm, Ipsden would be welcome. I have been to Ipsden Heath and Stoke Row, visiting relatives but not actually visiting Uxmore Farm. since my father and grandfather farmed there in the early 1900s ...Read more

A memory of Ipsden by Yoga Prakash Saraswati

I worked and lived at the Golden Lion Hotel, beginning when I was 19, fresh out of Westminster Hotel School, when I was a trainee/assistant manager there from 1959-63 or 64, with the exception of the winter of 1962/63 when I worked ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1959 by Dylan Rivis

My parents moved to Higher Bebington Road in 1960. We lived almost at the bottom of the row of houses shown on the left hand side of the photo. I too played in the park and jumped through the gap in the hedge! When we ...Read more

A memory of Bebington in 1960 by Peter Lea

I remember the Odeon on Kingstanding Circle. We used to wait for my dad to come home with his wages and then mum would take my sister and myself to the Odeon. We used to queue for ages to get in the shillings! and always ...Read more

A memory of Kingstanding in 1960 by Marlene Sale (Nee Hodge)

My mother and her family lived in Ramsden row in Thurgoland, and their name was Caswell. My mum was Dorothy Joan and her elder sister was Gertie, who became, I think, Heap when she married. I believe the Heaps lived further along the ...Read more

A memory of Thurgoland by Lorraine Zima

As a young lad born in Shelldale Avenue, and having lived all my young life in Portslade, I used to spend many hours down by, and on the canal at Portslade. I loved seeing the ships, mainly coal-boats moored at the gas ...Read more

A memory of Portslade-By-Sea in 1954 by George Mower