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Hi Teddy Peacock, If I can remember, you lived on Dalton Street. How about Freddie Turley (used to sell the late night final). Remember big Millie who lived near Peggys shop who's son Alan fell from the CIS when window cleaning? ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey in 1956 by Mickey Rooney

Coldham Hall was a pub much loved by my family on the riverside in Surlingham, about a half mile downstream from Brundall. The landlord at the time the picture was taken was Billy Breach, who also ran a foot ferry across the ...Read more

A memory of Surlingham in 1940 by Barry Hurn

I was evacuated to Oldham in the early 1940s when London was getting blitzed and was taken in by Sarah and Levi Allen of 8 Bell Street, what a lovely couple. Just a one up one down on the corner of Blanche Street so they had the top and I had ...Read more

A memory of Oldham in 1940 by Derek P Arker

I was born in Oldham in 1944, we moved into a house in Smith Square just off Huddersfield Road in 1948 and stayed there till 1959. This house had no back door, no electric and no hot water. It was a tough life but the people were great. ...Read more

A memory of Oldham in 1948 by Frank Hartley

First holidays I remember 1939 and 1940. We stayed on a farm in Fovant, owned by the Brashers. The farmhouse was very old, had a thatched roof and a huge kitchen chimney with hams hung in it. My great uncle Fred Allen and Aunt Hannah  used to ...Read more

A memory of Fovant in 1930 by David Allen

Born 1933; lived in Lewis Street; relatives (Oldham, Mingay, Mayberry) in Walthall Street and Chetwode Street (candy manufaturing). Moved to Stafford, 1937 (Father with LMS). Moved to Bahamas (Eleuthera), 1966 (teacher and writer). Celebrated VE Day in the Square.

A memory of Crewe in 1930 by Gerald Mingay Oldham

I lived in Loring Street off Droylsden Road. With the war on we spent most of time with my grandparents, Tom and Mary Peaker, who lived in Dixon Street with their youngest daughter Dorothy. I went to St ...Read more

A memory of Newton in 1940 by Graham Tyson

I remember ( vaguely) the top derby pub at the junction of factory lane.i still have a photo of me sat on the steps in my shorts and cap :),it was whit sunday and we were going to the walks on oldham road,i must have been about 4 at ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey

I have very fond memories of Pilgrim Wood from 1980. The children would make rope swings in the woods, pets were smuggled in on occasion. Not such a nice walk all the way up Sandy Lane, and children had to share ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1980 by Jane Finbow

I lived in Failsworth from 1953 to 1961. I lost contact with all of the friends I had then when we moved to Leicester in the Summer of 1961. Their names were Keith Barnett, Peter Rigby, Martyn Payne, Eric Hall, John Roberts, Roger Stafford, ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth by keith.smith123