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He was only a few weeks old when he came to us, my mother had got to know about him and thought he was just the thing I needed to cheer me up. I was fourteen years of age and had not long moved home; my parents had decided to ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear

This August 2014, on my way back from Whitby, I took a detour and called at Reighton Gap. The last time I was there was in the late 1950s / early 60's when we stayed at the bungalow my grandmother owned on Boat Cliff Road. I seem to ...Read more

A memory of Reighton by akaye73

My grandad built a bungalow that as far as I know still stands today. It was virtually opposite the shop, next to the car park at the top of the road that led down, past the quarry to the beach. I think it was called Huno Brow or ...Read more

A memory of Reighton by graham.tarran

Southend-on-Sea in the 50’s At the housing estate in Mitcham where we lived they had a tenants association. Every Friday night, two of the committee would go round to the Elm Court flats in Mitcham, where we lived, ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by Carole Baldwin

1945 As a boy of 15 and living in Banstead road carshalton Beeches, I had two friends named Raymond & Peter Colly, there father Mr Colly who was a clockMaker and was badley burnt in WW2. Shortly after the war went back to his ...Read more

A memory of Teignmouth by Brian Shiers

The caption in the Francis Frith book 'Paignton', by Peggy Parnell (p.46), reads: 'With his powerful business aptitude, Mr Dendy quickly installed the most important tourist commodity, ...Read more

A memory of Paignton by robert_slack5

Maiden name Sandra Banbury. As far as I know I was admitted to St Mary’s for convalescence following pneumonia, early fifties, and 4- 5 yrs old. Dr Fuller paid £4.4 s weekly, no idea for how long. He ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs by sandy777girl

As a child living in Blackhall my lasting memory is playing on the beach with my sister Margaret. Moira Hughes

A memory of Blackhall Colliery by Moira Coombes

I was a member of the Eccles Boys Choir which was founded by Allan Warrington who was a teacher at Beech Street School he was also the choir master at Eccles Parish Church and also a part time organist at Manchester Cathedral . I ...Read more

A memory of Patricroft by dfirmageb

We used to visit my Gran and Grandad, Florence Daisy and George Humberstone every summer. They lived at The Bungalow, Front Street (Main Street?) This was on the same side and just past the bus depot heading ...Read more

A memory of North Somercotes by maggie.ledger3