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I cannot remember how old I was when we started going to the south coast of England for a Sunday trip, but it was when my father sold his Norton motorbike and bought a Golden Flash with a sidecar ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton in 1955 by Carole Baldwin

I live in South Alloa and my mother did too, and she still does. My mother told me about a whale that came up the Forth near South Alloa, many people came to see this whale and many came to help move it back into the sea. After they ...Read more

A memory of South Alloa

It was 1952 and the NAAFI Club held dancing lessons. Now, trying to learn to dance in hobnailed Army boots was impossible, but I did chat up a NAAFI girl and arranged to meet her after her work, which I did. She had, to me, an ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by Graham Vahey

My husband and I are Australians and went to Britain on a driving holiday in 2007. We stayed in some marvellous B&Bs but one that will always be memorable for us was at Anna Steel's farm 'Laigh Langmuir'. What a welcome we had - ...Read more

A memory of Kilmaurs in 2007 by Kay Armstrong

I was born at 87 Victoria Street in 1945. My father was a miner and worked all his life in Caerau colliery. My mother came from London with her brothers and sisters, they were evacuated to Caerau after their house ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1953 by Colin Evans

My mother has often said to me "You don't appreciate what you've got until you lose it". She is wrong, for I will never forget the wonderful garden of my childhood and write below the memories that I will hold for ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

Some months later, how long I cannot remember for the passing of time means little to a child, except that it always seemed so long for things to happen; but I found myself again seated in the back seat of another ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

Beside the strawberry bed grew a large cooking apple tree that produced enormous green apples. We had a variety of both eating and cooking apple trees in the garden, the fruit from which was harvested and then ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

I was born in the former Mechanics Institute in Derwent Street, Blackhill in 1946 where my grandfather was the caretaker. My name was Ann Wall and my grandparents' name was Redshaw. My mother lived with my grandparents in the ...Read more

A memory of Blackhill in 1946 by Ann Westgarth

I left Wath Grammar School in 1948 after 7 happy years. My father was the owner of Waddington Bros. Ironmongers in West Street, but the shop and all the rest of the shops in West Street were demolished around ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne by Betty Harris