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I was born on Albert Street in 1936, so I have seen a few changes in Featherstone, I still live on Albert Street, I don't think I could live anywere else! Just a few houses down, nearer Station Lane, Station Lane was a lovely ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1940 by Florence Willis

My family moved to Blandford Forum in 1970 and we left in 1973, my dad was in the Royal Signals. I have 2 sisters and 2 brothers and the time we lived there really was the most fantastic time ever. I have vivid memories of ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp in 1970 by Christine Unsworth

I was born and lived in Reada Terrace near Frizington, Cleator Moor, my parents were Jerry and Margaret Hayhoe and we moved down to Doncaster in Yorkshire roundabout 1964. I can remember St Paul's School in ...Read more

A memory of Cleator Moor by Alyson Jarvis

when I was about a year old I moved to the Hough from Englesea Brook, where my parents lived for a couple of years. I went to school at Shavington and was good friends with John Addison, Alan Giller (the latter ...Read more

A memory of Hough by Mark Tyrrell

I was a paper boy for Mr Watkins, in the High Road, and delivered bundles of newspapers to Claybury Hospital seven days a week. There were so many bundles, I could not ride the trades bike as it was all up hill, even up ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1950 by Frank Bedford

I first came to stay in the area when I was about 4 yrs old, I was born in 1951. We stayed in a tent on a farm just outside Llanrhaeadr on the Pistyll Falls lane. The farm was owned by a man called John Jones, his wife ...Read more

A memory of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant in 1955 by Rosemary Porter

Childhood memories of Felmongers from 1953 to 1973. Playing in the woods, the park. attending Tanys Dell School annexe Mark Hall. Mark Hall Secondary Modern School, and friends that I am still in contact with from those days.

A memory of Harlow in 1953 by Peter Smith

My first memories of Salford are living at 40 Moorfield Rd - just down the road was Holy Angels Church. I went to the brownies there and remember doing the maypole on the green outside the church. I went to St Johns Primary ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1960 by Janet Durham

I was born in Tithe Barn Road in 1953. When I was about 9 and 12 some mates and me noticed this small building that looked like a small house. A pointed house with no windows, just a solid oak ...Read more

A memory of Wootton by Graham Ward

Dear Marie, This is Jean Lewis, nee-Howells, calling. It is special finding you on the internet, I have thought about you now and again over the years, thinking how you got on in Australia. I have still got the ...Read more

A memory of Merthyr Mawr in 1956 by Jean Lewis