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My dad was born in Howden Clough but he had a rag warehouse at the Smithies cross roads opposite the Grey hound pub. He used to buy old clothing and rags from people known as 'totters' or from householders who took them to him. ...Read more

A memory of Birstall in 1960 by Peter Armitage

What a coincidence, as around 1910 the Smithy was owned and run by My Grandfather also named James ,(a family tradition) there exists a buisness directory in the longshop Museum ,listing many Leiston Buisnesses, showing a picture of ...Read more

A memory of Leiston by James Balls

Not so much as a memory as a search. My family came from Cossington & Chilton Polden. My ggrandfather George Diment was a master blacksmith in Cossington. He made an iron band to repair the great tree outside the Church ...Read more

A memory of Cossington by mike_diment

I moved to Chingford Hatch in 1946 from Hackney, we moved into a new house on Friday Hill. Some of my early memories was climbing the huge elm trees that were either side of Friday Hill. I remember the Old Smithy in what is ...Read more

A memory of South Tottenham in 1946 by Henry Molyneux

I love this photo - those old cars ! I don't remember the old building with the wooden balconies. It must have disappeared between 1955 and the first half of the 1960s. Monday has always been market day in Epping. Years ago ...Read more

A memory of Epping

We'd had our usual five weeks school holidays when Hitler's Luffwaffe gave us another few days off. His bombers scampering back to the continent, after presumably bombing Midlands cities, jettisoned another, on ...Read more

A memory of Flitwick in 1943 by Maureen Kerr

I am very much a novice with the computer and Googled Blackford, Scotland, and to my delight lots of things came up, plus this site which I am so delighted about. I lived in Blackford till I was about 15 a half. I so ...Read more

A memory of Blackford in 1949 by Linda Newport

I was born in 1934 and lived in Iveston for 18 years, leaving reluctantly in 1952. We first lived beside the duckpond, in the cottage attached to Letch Farm, run then or later by Mr and Mrs Harrison. Avis Harrison baked my wedding ...Read more

A memory of Iveston in 1940 by Margaret Dixon

My parents and grandparents bought Clockhouse Farm in 1938, following the break-up and sale by auction of the Stanley Estate.  A photograph of the farmhouse was shown on one of the pages of the brochure ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge

The name is Gareth Davis, and my grandfather (Harry Davis) lived at No 2 Ivor (Ifor) Terrace in Blackmill, although I later lived in Bryncethin I used to travel with the local butcher Clive Heale back to Blackmill to deliver meat to homes ...Read more

A memory of Blackmill in 1957 by Gareth Davis