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My Name is William Speirs, in the 1940's we moved from Bellshill Lanarkshire to live in Fishcross, Alloa, Clackmananshire, Scotland. This is a short story about when we were kids in Fishcross from about 1946 till I left in ...Read more

A memory of Fishcross in 1950 by William Speirs

I have many memorys of lingfield from walking home through jenners field in deep snow from school to falling in the pond !!!! Shame the school has gone now though .. would cut through the graveyard down the steps across the road up ...Read more

A memory of Lingfield by Peter Morrell

I was born into a family called Burns, Mother's name Dorothy, Father's name Leslie. They was a hard working family with two daughters Margaret and Patricia then there was three boys, Robert, Stephen and . for me it was a place that we ...Read more

A memory of Icklesham by Stephen Burns

My dad (Brian Gray) moved us down form Manchester in Feb. 1964 to open a new pharmacy on the 'new' High Street. We lived upstairs in flat 111 (I think!) and while mum (Margaret Gray) helped dad start the shop, my ...Read more

A memory of Westbury by Martin Gray

Hi. I lived in Longley Road, Tooting opposite the bus station at the Tooting Junction end of Longley Road from 1950. We lived in a flat above Cussons grocery store until the site was bought and demolished by the council, for ...Read more

A memory of Tooting

I was there 1955 to 1997, apart from trips to Locking, and a final posting to the Shetlands, but RAF Sopley was brilliant. I was a radar mechanic/fitter on the Radar Office consoles in the bunker. When I first went in 1955 it had not been ...Read more

A memory of Sopley by Terry Luxford

I lived on ark street lowerboughton till it was knock down but can't find any photo of the area

A memory of Lower Broughton

I was born in West Park St in 1939. I went to Ordsall school in Taylorson St.I went to St Clements Church and sang in the Choir .I was The Rose Queen in 1953.My dad was called Jim Cartwright and he played the piano at weekends in the ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Myra Greenhalgh

I was at Sister Butler' Orphanage from 1948 to 1959. Still in touch with Sally Hayter although I'm living in Australia now. Peter Edenborough, Sally Stevens and Maureen come to mind as children that were there with me. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Hinton Martell by Richard Kelly

after sharing a house with my aunts in broardview avenue rainham in the late 40s we moved to romany road 1950 we were the first family onto the road , only a few houses were up so lots of brick stacks to play in , the top end ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by woolg.chris