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Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

I have just bought a print of Frith's postcard of Courtney Street in 1955 and am delighted to see the premises named "Stilings Pharmacy" on the right of the picture. My father ran this business for the Misses ...Read more

A memory of Newton Abbot in 1940 by Philip Richards

I guess this photograph is looking down the valley with the photographer standing near The Square. I can't quite remember the name of the hill (Alexandra Road?) just out of shot on the front left of the photo. It had a pub halfway up on the left, and a doctor's clinic if I recall correctly. Paul

A memory of Pontycymer in 1955 by Paul John

I think it was about 1963, I was sent to Heswall, to a Home for children. I was about 4 years old. My Mum said our Doctor advised for me to go there, because I wasn’t eating. I don’t know what the place was called, & I can't ...Read more

A memory of Heswall by Rose Hopley

I was born in nunhead in 1939,lived in barset road,nunhead,i survived the bombing years,was avacuated for a while,then returned to hide in the Anderson shelter in our back garden,went to holidale road school,then on to Peckham rye ...Read more

A memory of Nunhead by Peter Mills

I did my nurse training in Huddersfield 1966 - 1969. As Huddersfield Royal Infirmary was not due for completion until after I started training, my nursing career began at Huddersfield Old Infirmary, situated in the ...Read more

A memory of Huddersfield by Molly Brearley

I spent many childhood holidays visiting our Auntie, Uncle & Cousin Jersey. On one particular occasion, when I was about four & a half, I received the news of the birth of my sister in 1950, at the time my relatives lived in St. ...Read more

A memory of Jersey by Raymond Garfield

Just after the war Dad, Mum and I would travel every other weekend to visit aunts and uncles and cousins on our Norton motorbike and sidecar. We usually based our visit with Aunt Flo and Uncle Stan (a wartime despatch ...Read more

A memory of Andover in 1940 by John Scott

My sister Kathleen Taylor (former name) was cook in the kitchen for the retired old ladies. I was always staying with her during school holidays. Her husband then (now deceased) was Barry Taylor and they had two children, Sarah born ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1970 by Stuart Mitchell

I was born in rented 'rooms' at Wordsworth Road in 1936 and came to move with my parents to five different addresses at Easington before I moved away from the area, when I married in 1963. But although my ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1900 by Harold(Harry) Barnes