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I lived in Dunston from 1946-1964. This area of Dunston was a place I knew quite well. The lamp post on the left was almost outside a dental surgery. I well remember the experience of having a tooth extracted here, and the ...Read more

A memory of Dunston in 1950 by Malcolm Cowley

I moved into Oldyards on the estate fresh from Leeds, totally unprepared for a life up there, but it was the best time of my life. I got to know the estate pretty well and was interested, Captain Buchan was a mine of ...Read more

A memory of Auchmacoy in 1990 by Lynne Bell

In 1956 I came to work in Scotland having been transferred from Yorkshire by the NCB. I needed a house and the semi derelict house known as Roanshead House was available, but boarded up and was not on mains electricity. My wife ...Read more

A memory of Easthouses in 1957 by Douglas Jenkinson

What a lovely life. Playing in the station, the copse and by the river at Double Bridges. We lived in Alexandra Terrace and the first house opposite the Inn was run by Mrs Wicigrin (spelling?). We used to play in the ...Read more

A memory of Broadclyst in 1952 by Mary Hutty

In the 40's and early 50's the Goodland family lived in one of the pair; with their son Norman, and during the war a boy called, I think, John Hunt lived in the other. No relation to the Hunt family who ran the Post Office and shop, ...Read more

A memory of Chilbolton by Colin Johnson

My grandmother, Kate Elizabeth Wicks, was born in Hythe on 16 June 1887. She was a Roman Catholic and attended the school run by The Austin Friars Church, in Hythe. They lived in Eltham. She married my ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1880 by Christine Wise

This is the junction of Barrack Road, and the Main road running through Stoughton, Worplesdon Road. On the far corner ..the Butchers Shop, although ceased trading for decades (until recently a ...Read more

A memory of Stoughton by John Phillipson

The 1861 census shows the school being run by John Collard, his wife Elizabeth & assistant Samuel Waters. Two servants Emma Willams and Jane Ward (my relative) with 9 boys as boarders aged 8-13 years. On a recent fact finding ...Read more

A memory of Alcombe in 1860

My name is Paul Oates. Well, K.B. and G.P. made my life hell. Only one that was good was Mr Lucas, he was great. Me, Ray Lynch, Mick Duffy and Paul Wattkinson was always running off, but K.B. was like a blood hound and found ...Read more

A memory of Chapel-en-le-Frith in 1870 by Paul Oates

My Aunt Freda used to run the show boat and when we went to Ponty to visit my dad, Spank Mattocks, I spent a lot of time in there. We live down south, a lot of my family lived up Chequerfield Drive and some still do. My cousin ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract by Deborah Ayres