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During WW2 my uncle Bob was billited in the area, and my mother took me up to visit him. I was only a child, but I have a memory of being allowed to stand on this bridge while it was being turned. Was this possible? I also have a memory ...Read more

A memory of Selby by derekjay

i remember in the mid 60s my friends and i jumping off the farleigh bridge, how on earth we didn't break our necks i will never know, we stayed almost every summer week-end in the hopping huts, and had to come back to london late ...Read more

A memory of East Farleigh by flamefix

I moved to Three Bridges when I was 4 years old, in 1958, with my parents and twin brother Andrew. We lived in Mill Road. Heavens how it’s all changed. Gone are the open spaces at the bottom of the road, where we ...Read more

A memory of Three Bridges by kfosdike2

I live in Australia now . I grew up on Alan Avenue [off Lord Lane] . I was the eldest of 5 children [the Martins] . We had a great life there. I have countless memories of those days in the early 1960s. Walking to Stansfield Road school. ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth by andy9martin

I was born in Morpeth, lived there until I was 14 When my family moved to New Zealand. I have never forgotten my childhood days, I have so many fond memories. Our family moved into a house in West Park in the early 50’s, we had open ...Read more

A memory of Morpeth by Susan Law

Does anyone remember the the big empty house over the plannie ?that we called the haunted hoose ,in the 1950,60 ,also the huge big rock we all used to sit on when we were youngsters,i think that it is a residential care home for the ...Read more

A memory of Carntyne

This photo is taken from the old Court House Railway Station at the bottom of Regent Street, the only railway station in this country to have that name. There was a stone viaduct following this plate girder bridge, entrance ...Read more

A memory of Barnsley by Robert Goulding

My mother often spoke fondly of living in Bearpark from 1920 -1926 when the family came down to London. My grandfather, Edward Leadbitter, was a miner at Bearpark pit. He worked on an 18 inch seam, lying in water in the semi darkness ...Read more

A memory of Bearpark by Pamela Annison

A while ago, a lady who came from Walton, was sharing her memories and mentioned she had been on holiday on the other side of the world. She had met someone who lived there and who had said they new of Walton, and of a ...Read more

A memory of Walton on the Hill by Elizabeth Waters

Hi, born in 1941 and lived at 5 Downing Road. I attended Arnol Road School, then Gorsbrooke, would love to hear from old friends' Chris Case, Teddy Martin, Alf Cornell to name a few. Cannot remember to much. Mum and dad both ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Thomas Potter