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Any information or memories of the Empire cinema? I remember it as fairly run down in late 50's but you could always get in to see the the horror films, even if you were only 11 to see over 16 films! Other names ring a bell - "the flea pit" (probably shared by many cinemas) and " dirty dicks".

A memory of Crumlin

I used to visit my grandmother - who lived on the aptly named Hill Street - throughout my childhood. My Gran was Ruth Robbins (nee James) who lived all her life in Hill Street, two of her daughters and their families also ...Read more

A memory of Abertillery in 1952 by Monica Wakefield

I was born in the spring of 1944 in my mother's parent's home, Thomas and Eveline Bowes who then lived in Thornlaw South. I visited them often, and loved to go for walks and going to the pitures at the bottom of Thornley with ...Read more

A memory of Thornley by Margaret Sewell

I was born at 27 Croft Court, Smallthorne, in 1948, my father was born at 8 Back Crof in 1920. From when he left school in around 1934, he went to work in the coal mines. During the war years he went to join the army ...Read more

A memory of Smallthorne by John Turner

I grew up and played around the Welfare Hall,r ows of pit houses were situated behind it, Pretoria Street, Earle Street, Kimberly Street. We would watch the shows in the Welfare put on by the Featherstone ADS, and I attended the ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1963 by John Barker

My family lived in Stanner House, a lovely old house in Clara Vale from 1952 until 1964 - my parents moved there shortly after they got married in 1951. I was born in 1958 and can remember the house as if it was yesterday. In the 1800's ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1963 by Helen Mc Guinness

I was born during the Second World War in 1942, the 8th child to my parents at Goose Bridge, Matching Green. My parents were Scottish and people thought they were foreign. My dad worked for Mr Gemmill's farm ...Read more

A memory of Matching Green by Mary Burton

My father worked at Denaby Main Colliery as a steel erector, installing pit head plant. My memories of Denaby Main are of staying with my dad's landlady and her family. They were the Grindle family and their ...Read more

A memory of Denaby Main in 1961 by Tom Harper

I was born in Maceado Square, Hunslet, not a blade of grass to be seen, the small house was behind Winterburns store, everyone shopped there, along with Cardis's pork butchers. Pub opposite. Trams stopped at Balm Road, Miggy was not ...Read more

A memory of Hunslet in 1930 by Roy Brining

I worked at Langley pit and coming home one morning from work on my motor bike, a 350 AJS, I hit the milk cart, Barney was dragging Toby across the road in front of Nuttalls shop having come from hillside, no one hurt, head ight broken, happy days.

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1957 by David Leckenby