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Sutton as I remember it holds many memories. I was born and brought up there, attending school at the Council School, Sunday School at the Chapel and using the facilities of the Park from an early age until I ...Read more

A memory of Sutton-in-Craven by Alan Pickles

I can remember going to the fair when it was held just behind the old Cardigan Arms. What is now a park that goes up to the White Hart . Also just past the Public Toilets was a Barbers Shop. I think it was Called Bishops

A memory of Corby by Bryan Roberts

I was born in Colliers Wood but moved to Tooting soon after and lived in Fishponds Rd throughoutthe Second World War, I attended Broadwater Road School and Ensham Central in Fransiscan Road. I must admit I don't remember the war very much ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Constance Freeman

I was stationed there 1955 to 1956. Met my wife in Swindon.

A memory of Swindon in 1955 by John Krueger

I am now 63 but it wasn't till a couple of years ago that looking at my BC I actually took in that I was born at the Holbrook Maternity Home June 30th 1947. I'd always put down Belper as my place of birth as I'd only glanced at ...Read more

A memory of Holbrook in 1947 by Roger Taylor

My mother was Ellen Rosekilly, she was born at Malton Colliery in May 1906, she was one of a large family. Her brothers worked down the pit. One by one they left and moved on. My Aunt Louisa continued to live ...Read more

A memory of Malton in 1944 by Doreen Brunton

My mother worked in Foxton's the bakers which was on Stocks Lane. It was cobbled with granite 'sets' and I think it had tram lines. As a boy, I was sometimes allowed to go out with the driver of the the bread van to make deliveries to ...Read more

A memory of Rawmarsh in 1963 by David Ardron

Re: St Mary's wednesday morning church service at Dewhurst Secondary as it was known in those days, I remember Stan Mathews falling asleep on his knees as in prayer. My mother now lives in the alms house next to the church, so every ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt in 1963 by Trevor Monk

I was born in 1945 at the end of the Second World War at was then 3 Park Villas, Goff's Lane, the home of my grandmother, Alice Emma James. House renumbering during the 1950s resulted in the house becoming 393 ...Read more

A memory of Goff's Oak by Leslie Selby

I had recently passed my driving test and drove a Morris Minor Saloon, to practice my parallel parking I used to drive down South Street after work or on a Sunday and park outside of Woolworths or ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester in 1969