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I was born at 12 Lyndhurst Ave Southall on January 1941. My parents moved into this property in the late 30s. I remember a bit of the war when I was about three or four as we had a shelter in the back garden as we ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Eric Wedderburn

I live in one of these houses with my grand parents and my parents. As my grandfather work on Bulmer Farm as a herdsman. Before he retired. My mother work at Beatrice Webb. As the Cook.

A memory of Holmbury St Mary in 1966 by Ann Manson

August 2012. Its a small place Newcastle how about this for a coincidence. I was out on a walk between Wylam and Newburn and as I passed the Tidal Stone (which I mention in my stories) I met this man walking his dog, we chatted and I ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1910 by Jimmy Burrows

Hello, It was Frith's photos, but I'd given up! Lovely to make contact. Mum's brother was Lawrence Scurry, who married Myra's sister Louie. I was only a few months old when I first visited Kirkham in 1949 and Uncle Lawrence ...Read more

A memory of Kirkham in 1950 by Brian Buxton

Looking for a book about breamar in the 1940 because my partners mum lived up there with her mum dad sisters and brother

A memory of Braemar in 1940 by Anne Fraser

Having just re-read Professor A.H Dodd's "A history of Wrexham" He was amazed at how much history, buildings etc had been swept away in the name of progress from 1850 to 1950. He published his book and died in 1975, lamenting ...Read more

A memory of Wrexham

I was born in Selsdon in 1947 at 1 Farley Road and lived in same house for almost 30 years.  I attended Selsdon Primary and Secondary School from 1952 - 1960.  Classmates included Linda Smith, Christine Lucas, Sally Hughes , ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Christine Jacks

My father Basil Leader was manager of the Co-op Funeral service which used to be the site of the Angel Inn and we lived in a maisonette above the premises. At the back were two branches of the river Colne - a fast ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1954 by Denise Mangles

My Grandmother lived in Yew Tree Cottage, The Ryse Hatfield Heath with Bob Challis. I was a little girl growing up in London, and would visit at Weekends and school holidays. Uncle Bob was a stockman on the farm but later due to ill ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield Heath in 1965 by Jane Puddephatt

Sutton in Ashfield History I am writing a book that follows the First World War experiences of my Great Grandfather, Albert Edward Wingrove. He used to have a Off Licence premises at 58 Outram Street in ...Read more

A memory of Sutton In Ashfield in 1910 by Andrew Winrgove