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My grandmother grew up in Pye Bridge. Her father worked at the collary for some time. It came with some sadness though, her older sister having drownd in the canal at a young age and then her younger brother being lost in WWII age just ...Read more

A memory of Pye Bridge

This picture makes me feel warm inside. When I was a young boy, 9-11 yrs old, I would fish from the wooden fence in the picture to the lower right, casting under the Newbury Bridge. Hoping to catch a large barbil or Samson the ...Read more

A memory of Newbury by Paul Frith

I was in stowlangtoft hall with my brother Dominic Attard my sister Maria Attard my name is Rita, I believe I was only 6months old my brother was about 6/ 7 my sister about 3/4 years old ,I do remember having a sleep in the ...Read more

A memory of Stowlangtoft by Rita Croston

I lived in Albert Road Caversham Heights from 1948 aged 5. Went to school at Hemdean Road infants then on to Caversham Secondary Modern and left there in 1959. I really enjoyed school, especially maths, history and geography, the ...Read more

A memory of Caversham by Barry Woolford

I lived on Dolobran Road Sparkhill from 1956 (DATE OF BIRTH) to around 1962 when we moved to Northfield. We were the only double fronted house on the street and we fronted Lime Grove where my grandmother lived at Number 1. I ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook by Karen Bevis

born in 1948 in a place called Cappenfield near Bilston, just off Dudley street, just four houses in a row surrounded by fields,, the canal, or cut, as we all called it ran alongside, and it narrowed down to what we called the stop,it was where ...Read more

A memory of Tipton by John Groucutt

As a boy of 11 or 12, I left school everyday at 3.30pm. I then drove the cows to Mr Goodings Mill about 30 or 40 yards away from Mr Shepherd's shop. After being milked I drove them back again. In wintertime I'd grind up ...Read more

A memory of Washford by Claire Allen

Grandmother used to live on the slip; she was housekeeper to Mr. Sales and we used to walk over the marshes to Reedham Swing bridge to visit relatives in Reedham. There was a farm on the corner owned by Chubbocks and I used to collect ...Read more

A memory of Lower Thurlton by Dorothy May Thornton

In 1961 or 1962, as a small boy of 5 or 6 my mum, brought me to Hednesford to visit her grandmother, my great-grandmother, Emily Chetwyn. A diminutive lady, we, the children, called her little nana. I believe she lived in the end ...Read more

A memory of Hednesford by Steve Brooks

This is a swing bridge - it swings horizontally. It actually swings out in two halves to rest over the pointed timber structures that can be seen in the river. These timber structures are known locally as 'dolphins' and are sometimes ...Read more

A memory of Whitby