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My school friend Elisabeth Stewart lived almost opposite and I remember going for a swim there with her - we both went to the school at Abbots Bromley, Wonderful times and her parents were so good to me, I remember she had an older sister - does anyone know where they are now ?

A memory of Uttoxeter by Mr Ray Hart

You can't speak about Bradley without mentioning the big pool. Men used to go fishing there - it was great to watch. There was a foundry right next to it and the men used to sit by and have a fag. In the winter it would ...Read more

A memory of Bradley

I believe my mother and sister lodged with a Mrs Bromley in Kelly Bray sometime during WW2. Mrs Bromley was so lovely, unfortunately she had no room for my sister and I, we had to live with a Mrs Pellow, a very severe lady in ...Read more

A memory of Kelly Bray by June Tipping

I remember that market square very well indeed. At that time I was taking my girlfriend from Stockwell Teachers Training College to my house to meet my parents for Sunday dinner in my father's Hillman Minx. Feeling very grown up and ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1971 by Wayne Ruffle

I was born in 1958 and lived in the flats in Bancroft Road. From around 1963 to 1966 I went to Warrington Road Infants School . I remember it as being a big dark gothic looking place that even then seemed hundreds of years old . ...Read more

A memory of Widnes by kbrad58

I lived in Figheldean from about 1949 - 1953, my parents and I lived in the Red Bungalow near the Wheatsheaf pub. My best friend was Wendy Stanfield, sadly no longer with us. Her father owned Stanfield's garage situated in the ...Read more

A memory of Figheldean by Rosemary Coleman

I was at school in Essex in the early 50's but my parents lived in Bideford at ! Cottingham Crescent behind the old Grammar school. My stepfather Ernest Jewell worked for Beers , which I think was a builders, and my mother Edith Jewell ...Read more

A memory of Bideford by Colin Brown

I was born in Bromley, Kent in 1940.My childhood was spent alternating between my mother and father's house called, from memory, either Stafford or Stratford House, on the right hand side proceeding from the Chestfield ...Read more

A memory of Chestfield by Graham Smith

I was in the same class as Christine Fox and remember that the Infants headmistress was Miss Wilcox.The other teachers we had were Mrs Turner, Miss(Sally) Harper, Mr Wrench, and Miss(Audrey) Willisford. I was browsing ...Read more

A memory of Uttoxeter by keithandphylhutch

Hi all, my name is Angela Longstaff I was born and bred at Oakenshaw in 1955 I lived at New Row with my family, Brother, David and two sisters Janet and Veronica and my parents were Polly and Gus. I remember with fondness my ...Read more

A memory of Oakenshaw by ang60marsh