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One of the shops I remember well was Fosters. It was like a mini department store. We had some of our clothes from there. You could buy things and pay so much a week. It was how we lived then. It was quite ...Read more

A memory of Polesworth in 1960 by Marilynne Connolly

I only have good memories relating to Egremont and its people. I lived in Manchester, but spent all my school holidays in Egremont. I stayed with my uncle and aunt, George and Nell Faron (and cousins Gerald and Marion), they ...Read more

A memory of Egremont in 1948

My grandmother lived at 50 Old Park Road, opposite Bloomfield Park, and I went to school at Franklin House School in Palmerston Road from 1955 to 1960, then the Winchmore Hill Collegiate School from 1960 to 1962. I used to ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1959 by Christopher Liddle

We lived in 40 Anderson Street, Dad worked in the mine in Kirkconnel. I knew James Kerr, Charles Gallagher, Peter Lee, Jim Weir, Bill Russel, Robert Dixon, Tony Milligan. and Jimmy Meikle, who all lived in Anderson Street, and ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm in 1940 by Robert Mc Dicken

I was directed to this site by a friend who was convinced one of the contributors must have been my brother, because it mentioned that his father ran a fish stall in South Harrow Market (our father did) and how ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow by David Lowe

We visited the Lizard during our summer holidays. It was the hottest year for years. We stayed in a caravan, on a caravan site near the Mousehole junction. There was my parents, my brother, sister and in the other caravan, next door was my ...Read more

A memory of Lizard in 1978 by Jean Smith

My sisters Rita, Susan and me all attended Ightham Primary School, the headmaster was Mr Foster, he travelled every day from Maidstone by car, Mrs Kath Gordon, Miss Tomkins being the other teachers, Mrs Hussey replacing Miss ...Read more

A memory of Ightham by Janet Le Saux

Although I was actually born in Holbeach Bank, and spent the first 3 1/2 years of my life in Holbeach St Matthews, I spent my childhood in Holbeach St Marks. My mother and father Ray and Greta ...Read more

A memory of Holbeach St Marks in 1955 by Alan Gray

I was born in Brook Street, Brown Lees, within the civil parish of Biddulph. The village is situated about half a mile north of the site of the former Biddulph Valley Ironworks and the Brown Lees and Victoria Collieries, ...Read more

A memory of Brown Lees in 1940 by George M. Bennison

I remember playing "houses" in the wood with the twins Jean and Betty.  Also great friends with Anne French, Jean Gardener and also Eileen Wolfington who sadly passed away many years ago.  We lived in ...Read more

A memory of Victoria Garesfield by Jessie Taylor