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My grandmother was born in Vine Cottage Kingsdown and all my great aunts and uncles lived there. We spent many a happy holiday either staying in Vine Cottage in the attic as there was only ...Read more

A memory of Kingsdown by Jane Hussey

In 1960 I was 5 years old and lived in Tyseley Lane with my older brother, mom and dad and also gran and great-gran. My grandad had died the previous year and I often wonder if his shed still stands at the bottom of the ...Read more

A memory of Tyseley in 1960

My husband Roy Webb was a policeman in Earby for 2 years before we emigrated to Australia in 1967. We lived at the police house next door to Sergeant and Mrs Bent. They had a son Robert (and a white poodle). Inspector Derek Hardy ...Read more

A memory of Earby in 1965 by Valerie Whitby

This was the meeting place where local kids gathered most evenings. I dont think it's changed much. I remember Guiness Trust doing all the houses up.

A memory of Riddings in 1975 by Rebecca Wilde

I moved to Streatham from Clapham in 1956. I have an early memory of sitting in a taxi with Mum and my Nan while Dad went into the Estate Agents for the keys! I lived there from the age of 22, when we moved to ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1956

I lived in Consett from the mid-fifties onwards and have many mixed memories. One distinct episode was the burning of the REX cinema. I was living in the Black Horse in Front Street at the time and ...Read more

A memory of Consett

I was born in Battersea in 1939. We lived at various addesses. There were five of us. I was the youngest and my eldest brother Charles was born in 1930 in Victoria Dwellings. I went to William Blake Secondary Modern ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1930 by Joyce Justice Maiden Name Hawkins

My family moved to Tetchil from Lancashire in 1956, the year after I was born. My Dad got a job as a meat Inspector at the abbattoir in Hordley. We lived in Val View until my parents purchased a cottage & some land at ...Read more

A memory of Tetchill in 1956 by Lynn Pennington

It was a good place to be living, in Caerbont, I had some real good years there. It was not too far from my grandparent's house and not too far from where I started playing rugby up in ...Read more

A memory of Caerbont by John Fuge

I lived in a flat which was part of Duncombe Hall which was later knocked down and flats built on the land - still called Duncombe. It was fine old house - my flat was the servants annexe above the kitchens. I used to walk ...Read more

A memory of Staines in 1966 by Lynda Gale