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or thereabouts. Blackcurrant picking somewhere in the Drayton area, the smell of them today knocks 60 years off my age. Used to go fruit-picking during the Summer holidays with Janet Basham who lived on Highland Road, ...Read more

A memory of Drayton in 1949 by Pat Bye

I lived in Hepworth for 26 years, it broke my heart to move away, there are so many memories there for me; first the church I was christened in 1970, confirmed there in 1986 and was in the choir for many years, me and my ...Read more

A memory of Hepworth in 1976 by Julie Small

I was evacuated to Barnacre, in 1941, in a little house called Mons Villa, close to Shaws Farm, and my foster carers were Ruth and Chris Townson, I was there for a year. I went to Calder Vale primary school during that year, along ...Read more

A memory of Calder Vale in 1941 by Elizabeth Gibson

This picture named Redhill Hospital 1908 is in fact the porter's lodge at the main entrance. When I nursed there in the 1970s we all called it "Rose Cottage" as apart from housing the switchboard and the porter's lodge it also housed the ...Read more

A memory of Redhill by Ian Brooker

In 1959 I moved with my mother and father from Portsmouth to Sunnyhill in Derby, an adventure at my age of only 10 years. My father was in the Ministry of Defence Police, and we settled into an address called Sunnyhill Camp, an ...Read more

A memory of Mickleover in 1960 by Peter Whyatt

"...I used to play in the castle and what we thought were dungeons in the middle to late 1950s. It was our playground for many years. We went to the beach nearly every day summer or winter..." Maybe we know each other? ...Read more

A memory of Kirkcaldy by brainyfurball

The bottom of Silver Street on the other side of the bridge ended at the river with some railings over a drainage outlet.  This was a good place for children to get into the river from the middle of the village and paddle upstream under ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1962

As Mum went out to work fulltime, Nan looked after me before the age of 3.  She would take me shopping to this row of shops regularly. The shop with the long awning was a chemist's shop. There was also a Post Office, and a ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1955

I remember going to my grandparents' house in Low Row, Addison. It was a colliery village and it was always a treat to go there in my summer holidays. The house was basically a two up, two down but the downstairs back ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1952 by John Wood

I grew up in Woodhouse Eaves from 1943-53, living in Beacon Road, number 65. My grandfather Handley lived in the last house in that row of white cement-rendered houses, it had the only garage in the row in which he kept his ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Michael Handley