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I have read with interest the memories of Gwynfor and Colin. I moved to the village in the early 1950s and resided with my parents, brother and sister in Heulfryn (The Camp), this small estate if I'm not mistaken ...Read more

A memory of Esgairgeiliog in 1950 by Noel Williams

My Great Uncle John Percy Norfolk enlisted at Wenlock Barracks, Anlaby Road, Hull on 1st September 1914 and became a private in the "Hull Pals". The barracks at 380 ...Read more

A memory of Kingston upon Hull in 1910 by John Howard Norfolk

I lived in Lodge Avenue from 1957 to 1976. It runs off Allum Lane, which was a major road that connected Watling Street to the Railway Station, which opened in 1868. Lord Aldenham, Governor of the Bank of England, lived in ...Read more

A memory of Elstree by Hamish Adam

I Patricia Kenny was at Saint Marys in early 1950s with my two sisters Penny and Pamela. I was 2 years old, Pamela 5 and a half and Penny seven years old. I can remember the dormotories, the nuns and kindly ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1954 by Patricia Kenny

Hello, my name is Chris Hay and my nan was Irene Rooke ( the Rookes that lived opposite the Red Lion PH). I can remember spending time with my mum's aunty, nan's sister Hilda Goose (Rooke) at the time she lived up in Wood ...Read more

A memory of Swanley Village by Chris Hay

Hi, my name is Kevin Watts, we lived in the flats next to the bus garage in Purdon House from 1953 to 1964. I went to John Donne School in Woods Road. Just on the left of the photo is the police station, one of the girls in my class, ...Read more

A memory of Peckham in 1958 by Kevin Watts

I moved to Aberbeeg with my parents, Ron and Edith Burnett, in1957. We lived there for 5 years. We lived up on the hill across from the church in the Foresters House. Dr. Edwards was our next door neighbour. My years there were ...Read more

A memory of Aberbeeg in 1957 by Pamela Krist

Ty Mawr Farm is situated on the breast of the Betws  Mountain overlooking the village of Gwaun Cae Gurwen.  The well known Welsh actress Sian Phillips was born there in 1933.  In the 1950s and 60s it was occupied by the ...Read more

A memory of Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen in 1952 by David Lougher

I was born in post-war Corringham into a large family that had been evacuated from the blitzed East End of London. I was christened and married at St. Mary's Church and I lived in Chamberlain Avenue (down the left fork of the ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1940

During the Second World War my parents, my sister and I moved from Birmingham to stay with my paternal grandparents at New Mill Bridge wher my grandmother Harriet Cook owned and ran the local store "Cooks ...Read more

A memory of Shelsley Walsh in 1941 by Antony Cook