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Yes name was Nora Cleghorn, and we lived next to her mother in Burrs Road in the early 1950s. Nora was well known for bringing the Donkies along West Road from Jaywick for their daily ride home by the now Martello ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea

hello . my family lived in two or three addresses in west gorton. in the 1930;s to 1950;s my grandma had a chip shop and i wondered if anyone remembers any of my family. the collens and the morans i would love to hear from anyone with any memories of them.

A memory of West Gorton by tanyfoel.holidays

just trying to see if shes remembered she was from the west midlands and lived here a long time x

A memory of Broadstairs

Hello everyone. I have quite nice memories of Hutton Poplars. I was there from 1959 - 1963. My name then was Jennifer Saunders. I was 13 when I first there having come from Woodvale in West Norwood. It was ...Read more

A memory of Shenfield by bashfull1946

This a request on behalf of my daughter and her partner. They are renovating a house in Old Road West which they think is Victorian. I have found the occupants there in the 1901 Census but not in the 1891. It is possible ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1890 by Angela Haddrill

My name is June Griffiths nee Crook I remember living at 3 Wren Street with my three brothers Philip, David and Andrew Crook. Myself Philip and David attended St Marks school in the 50's. I too remember Mr Platt, he used throw chalk ...Read more

A memory of Gorton by June Griffiths

Born and bred in Pumpherston. Went to Pumpherston primary in 1955 to 1960. High school then at West Calder. I remember the days when the milk was place on the radiaters to defrost. I stll hate warm milk to this day. We had ...Read more

A memory of Pumpherston in 1949 by David Mc Cormack

Moved to Nailsea in 1961 as a newly wed.My wife Anne and Mother in Law Marjorie converted Mr Freeths(I think ) vegetable shop at west end into a ladies hairdresser 'Anne Marie'.Well remember PC Genge standing on the corner in the middle ...Read more

A memory of Nailsea in 1961 by David Jay

I was born in 1931 in Bollingbroke Nursing Home and lived in Belleville Road next to Belleville Road School. Our house was requisitioned and knocked down to enlarge the school and so we moved to Hayes, Middlesex, in ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1930 by Marie Cull

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 ...Read more

A memory of Malborough in 1940