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I was born in Runnymede Gardens, near the Bridge Hotel and Greenford roundabout in 1939. I remember Spitfires flying from Northolt and a V1 rocket that (I think) hit part of Glaxo laboratories in 1944. I was in the garden, ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Peter Simkins

Hi I was born in 1936 in Five Locks Road just down from Bert Deacons's grocery shop. My mother was Kathleen (nee Bowen) and my father was Fred Williams the Barber in Pontnewydd village next to Ivy Horton's sweet shop ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd by Bowen Williams

My nicest memories of Coalville was when my grampy (Ray Weeks) used to take me to the Labour Club from when I was about 5 till I was about 11. I remember walking over the two bridges near the Co-op to the Labour Club to play dominos ...Read more

A memory of Coalville by Kiris Weeks

Those were the days - loads of fun swimming in the so called "divvy" (river) at Shotley Bridge in the early fifties - different parts of the river namely; Leveys, Puddlers, chat ties, the dry ...Read more

A memory of Shotley Bridge in 1950 by Joan Sedgwick

I recall, as a young police constable, going for a trip on the MSC barge 'The Daniel Adamson'. This was from no 8 dock at Manchester, just by the Trafford swing bridge. The trip went though Mode Wheel locks, Latchford ...Read more

A memory of Manchester Ship Canal in 1972 by David Timperley

This pub was at the end of Scotland Bridge Road where I lived all my childhood from 1952 to 1974.

A memory of New Haw in 1970 by Barbara Weldon

For anyone who has lived in and around Poole the Hamworthy Lifting bridge provokes memories. In 1991 I met my first wife who was from "The other side" of the bridge and this necessitated regular trips to Hamworthy. The bridge ...Read more

A memory of Poole in 1991 by Graham Fudge

Me and my family would always come to Fairbourne for our summer holiday, staying for weeks at a time with friends. Friends of mine would ask what there was to 'do' there and I would answer 'nothing'. Fairbourne is so ...Read more

A memory of Fairbourne in 1990 by Kelly Fletcher

We used to walk down to Red Wharf Bay on the first night at my aunt's who had a house in the village at the bottom of the steep hill called Journeys End. It was wonderful to go to the paddly bridge as we called it and gaze ...Read more

A memory of Red Wharf Bay in 1950 by Jean Newbigin

The deck of this bridge was removed in 1966/7 and only the piers remain. There is an inscription on the Eastern face of the piers, in english and some other language (maybe greek) (I have a photo). The photograph ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 2006 by Frank Quinn