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Ernie Styles and I started work on my stepfather and mother's farm (Patrick and Annette Lawford) when we were both 17 (1957). There was also Reg Whittear (mechanic/tractor driver, John Spreadbury and George ...Read more

A memory of Meonstoke by Fairfax Luxmoore

I only have great sunny memories of Halifax as a child. A lot of these photos in the 1960's show the sunshine... just how I remember it. My granddad worked on the buses and in the photos he may have been on one of those! His ...Read more

A memory of Halifax in 1966 by Zoran Milovanovic

Born in 1947, I grew up on Babington Road, Streatham. I remember the Home Guard a few houses up and Robin Hanson and I would play on the search lights left over from the war when we were four or five. ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1960 by Paul Chandler

I was born in 44 Leazes St 1941. I remember playing in Burdon st with our gords and top and whips. My nana who lived in 36 Leazes St. used to send me to toddys beer shop for her jug of beer. I carried it back with a plate on ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1941 by Victor Petersen

Early Twenties. I can remember, because most tradesmen used a pony & trap to vendor their wares. The pony needed to have space to relax, eat and so forth. Billericay had a brick field pug dug out and made into bricks. ...Read more

A memory of Billericay in 1920

My two brothers, my sister and I were all born in Minster in what is now called Turner Cottage but was then "The Swifts". My granddad was a village postman and my best friend's granddad was also a postman and we ...Read more

A memory of Minster in 1968

The school bell would be rung around the playground. Dinner time. The children taking school lunch would cross to the church hall. My best friend and I would race away up the school brae and further on till we reached 'the ...Read more

A memory of Kinnoull Hill in 1951 by Winifred Lilian Macdonald

The ruins of Ashby Castle also hold memories. Some are of sitting at school, gazing morosely out of the window while well-intentioned teachers attempted to impart the joys of adding up using letters. At the ripe old ...Read more

A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch by Bill Davey

I used to see some poor wretched people tramping the roads when I was a kid. I remember one particular man, news went quickly round that a tramp was on his way up Skirbeck Quarter. As kids we would stand at the top of ...Read more

A memory of Boston by Bob Marriott

My memories of the village are so precious that I wished it to be preserved intact with no alterations whatsoever, which of course was ridiculous. The main change is the size. When I was a child, in the '40's and ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong in 1950 by Dorothy Blake