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Remember Mrs Griffiths, the radio and Listen with Mother with Daphne Oxenford? Mr Griffith's class, new schools broadcasts? Learning tables, sometimes for days, no national curriculum for him but I have found knowing my ...Read more

A memory of Woolfardisworthy in 1955 by Mary Edwards

I was born in North Shields and know all the photos shown ...was my school holidays. I married my husband, a Northumberland Fusilier from Haltwhistle in January 1959 and in April we left from Newcastle on ...Read more

A memory of Tynemouth in 1959 by Patsy Norman Nee Quinn

My brother, Terry Vivash attended Tidworth Down School from 1948 until around 1950 when he was accepted for the Adcroft School of Building in Trowbridge. Terry passed away in 2007 but, amongst his effects I found a ...Read more

A memory of North Tidworth in 1950 by Paul Vivash

My name in 1950, was Joan Wood. We lived in Newtonhill but went to Bridge of Muchalls School. It was a lovely little school. We were taught by Miss Betty and Miss Mary Geddes. Every year we had a concert - ...Read more

A memory of Bridge of Muchalls in 1950

Every year on my birthday my mother and father made June 21st. (or the closest Saturday) a very special day for me. Since I was old enough to remember I had strawberries on my birthday. However, that was not all. The ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Denman Lalonde

We used to call it the hotel, it was the hub of the village, there was a bottle and jug at the side door and me dad would send me down to get a bottle of double maxim and let me have a little taste when I was just a bairn. We ...Read more

A memory of Lynemouth in 1967 by Ruth Purvis

I was born and grew up in Perth, going to Caledonian Road Primary School and then to Perth High School. I lived in South Methven Street until I was about 12 when we moved to Muirton. My teenage years were spent visiting coffee bars ...Read more

A memory of Perth in 1960 by Joan Hall

My grandfather, grandmother and mother came to America in 1923; Harold Hubert, Violet Mary (Abbott), Mary Doreen Shrimpton. My grandmother (Violet) was born in 1896 in Dalton-in-Furness and bought a small three handled cup while on vacation in Frizington in 1902.

A memory of Frizington in 1900 by Vicki Bradley

Hello. I was born at Crumpsall Hospital 1945 and lived at 59 Dalton St, for seven years. Mother is named Eileen and dad was Fred. I had an older sister Barbara. My Aunty Peggy and Uncle John lived a few doors down - they ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1945 by Jennifer Greenwood

I lived in New Mill, but I thought it was Cononley. I went to school there and had some wonderful years charging around the village, this is going back from 1947 to1963, when I got married. I then left to live in Scotland until 1967, ...Read more

A memory of Cononley by Win Mccall