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My friend came to live at the Summerhill House hotel with her parents, her name was Carol Sanders. It was a very up market hotel, silver service and well run. The Hotel catered for wedding receptions and had a lovely spiral wooden ...Read more

A memory of Kingswinford in 1963 by Christine Turner

My mam, Linda Leggett, had a toy stall at the corn exchange end. Mam and I loaded up a handcart with toys every Tuesday and pushed it from our shop in Commercial Road, next door to the post office. I helped unload and set ...Read more

A memory of Spalding in 1950 by Janice Brutnell

I remember when we lived on Devon Street facing the old All Saints school, they built the new school at the end of the street. Our student teacher Mr Barry mad ea film called the vanishing machine where the children made the ...Read more

A memory of Farnworth by Christine Barrett

I lived at the base with my parents my father was inspector in the naval police we had a bungalow just inside the main gates. I went to school in bowness a bus picked us up and dropped us off. in the evenings I was allowed to ride my ...Read more

A memory of Anthorn in 1953 by Diane Pryor

My father ran the sweet shop on Bexley Road and Ramsden Road i think its name was for Mr Walker and as we lived above the Bexley Road shop i was born there - i remember looking out at the old club house watching the ...Read more

A memory of Northumberland Heath in 1960 by Lyn Beeson

You may like to know that I today attended the funeral of the chatelaine of The Manor, Lady Valerie Guinness. After the war my father Peter bought the rectory at Sculthorpe about three miles from East Barsham and the ...Read more

A memory of East Barsham in 1946 by John Labouchere

I remember going to Alma Road school back in the early fifties when they still gave you a good hiding with a cane if you got into trouble. We changed schools to the new Secondary School in Bexley Lane when it first ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup by Gerry Horn

I have fond memories of Haydn Williams having been brought up in Coedymoeth Road and my parents taking Co-op milk. A ride to the end of the road in his van was a treat. I left Aber in 1971 to work at Rolls-Royce in Filton near ...Read more

A memory of Aberbargoed in 1973 by Brian Jones

I used to stay with a school friend in Sneyd Lane Essington when I was about 14. We went to Ely House School in Wolverhampton. We used to go riding somewhere around there and our friend Sylvia Merrick also lived in Essington. ...Read more

A memory of Essington in 1965 by Christine Turner

The personal views of Resolven expressed in these pages reflect my own fond memories of Resolven, the Vale of Neath and its people. In 1953 I returned to the valley as a teenager, little did I know it was to become my home. I ...Read more

A memory of Resolven by Barry S Britzman