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My elder sister and I both went to Ware Grammar School. My sister Christine Beattie from 1953 to 1956 and me, Catherine (Rena) Beattie from 1955 to 1956. We travelled from Hertford by bus to school and back. We left the ...Read more

A memory of Ware in 1956 by Catherine (Rena) Young

Hi everyone, I went to St Pat's 1956 -1962 and lived at 17 Bronze Street. I remember Brian Kidd going to our school. We had a good football team, I think the headmaster was Mr Cassidy who played for United in the ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1959 by Anthony Flynn

I was born in Burgess Hill in 1955 and lived at 18 Peartree Close. There was a rough track behind the house with rear access to garages, and we spent loads of time playing up and down this track and in the woods beyond. I ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1955 by Paul Smith

I was born in Nant Gwynant in 1925 and lived there for the first 20 years of my life. In 1944 I was drafted into the army and served in German and Italy. Upon release in 1947, I decided to try and make a career in ...Read more

A memory of Nantgwynant by Gwilym Evans

I was born in my grandparents' home in Rosedale Avenue in July 1947. I remember Crosby well, the cinema at the top of Endbutt Lane, going to church at St Peter and St Paul's RC Church, seeing the Beatles, and here I am in ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1947 by Ann Hamlet

As a young man with my first car and girlfriend we toured Cornwall and came across Port Quin, wow what a place. No one came here, most of the houses were derelict, the small car park to the left was the only place to park about six ...Read more

A memory of Port Quin in 1969

Yea, brings back the old times, the good times, in Runcorn. On a Sunday night up the Monkey Run lol, the old people will know the name.

A memory of Runcorn in 1860 by John Millward

Just before the 1960’s transformed our innocent lives, all us village boys had a limited choice of tonsorial art; indeed you could count the number of available haircuts (styles wasn’t a word used for men or boys) ...Read more

A memory of Sherington in 1960

Whilst at Priors Marston my grandfather, Rowland Joseph Marsh and his wife Annie Elizabeth Lavender had twins: Leonard and Vera Marsh. They already had a daughter Kathleen Annie. I am the eldest daughter of Kath Marsh, who is ...Read more

A memory of Priors Marston by Pamela Cook

I moved back to Hill House, with my brothers, Adrian, Anthony & Twins Russell & Howard. Micky , John & Julian arrived a few years later. I lived there untill 1963, when I got married, and moved to a flat at Kelsale court. I ...Read more

A memory of Kelsale in 1951 by Ann Crook