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My grandfather G. A. Smith took the tenancy of Springs Farm on Edingley Moor in 1931, when I was six months old. A builder by trade, and a sergeant in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry during the First World War, he ...Read more

A memory of Edingley in 1930 by John Watts

1955 - onwards My Aunt and Uncle had a caravan on the site which was adjacent to the main road and my family used to stay there during the summer holidays. My favourite memory was being allowed to go to the wooden hut to hire a ...Read more

A memory of Shoeburyness in 1955 by Jane Millward

I was born in 50 Hopkinstown Road, right by the school. My name was then Heather Jones. I am now in Austraila, NSW. I have been back and it all looked so small and the roads. I was in the jazz band and was in pantomimes that my uncle would do, his name was Bill Price, and it was a lot of fun.

A memory of Hopkinstown in 1950 by Heather Segboer

I started working for the ministry (ancient monuments) in 1969 at South Wingfield Manor. At the time it was owned by two brothers, Sam and Bill Critchlow, who ran a dairy farm situated at the side of the manor, in ...Read more

A memory of South Wingfield in 1969 by Stuart Chambers

My memories of bath times goes back to when Mum would once a week fill the copper again, in the corner of the scullery. The copper was built of bricks if I remember, with a tin liner, below was an opening, where you would light a fire ...Read more

A memory of West Ham in 1949 by Joan Doble

I remember my father taking me in the pub at Sunday dinner times, I think Mr and Mrs Parker kept it then? I have fond memories of Harry and Kath Cooper, Herbie Veni, Bill Rowlet, Arthur Gunns and Ben and Jack, George Murphet, Andy ...Read more

A memory of Leverington in 1953 by John Bassett

I came to know Drummore when I met my husband in 1957. We married in 1960 and this year is our Golden Wedding. My memories of Drummore include Crawfords shop, The Queen's hotel with the great family feeling you got ...Read more

A memory of Drummore in 1957 by Sheila Mc Gaw

The smell that came from the foundry... I used to go see my dad and the cold damp stench used to burn your eyes and fill your lungs. The building was cold and damp and yet the heat from the ladles of molten iron would burn your ...Read more

A memory of Auchtermuchty by Kathleen Litts Dean

When I was young we would holiday in a caravan at a site near to Hollicombe in between Torquay and Brixham. As we lived in Walsall in the West Midlands this journey, by coach, was not to be undertaken lightly and a day ...Read more

A memory of Brixham in 1956 by Michele Alberto

Eeh! Remember potted meat? You could eat it as it was or put it on bread for a sandwich, where is it now? Then there was dripping which was quite solid and spread like margarine on your bread for sandwiches. I worked in Leeds on the ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1950 by Jimmy Burrows