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I stood standing, in my new school uniform, outside the doors of the new Grammar School in September 1955. I was one of the first first years who started that day. Before the school opened, the children who passed the old 11+ had to ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Moira Jones

Starting from Tesco Express: This used to be a block of about 2 or 3 shops which included a building society and a travel agent. Next to this was Barclays Bank which closed down in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It remained ...Read more

A memory of Cranford

Born in Dunfermline in 1946, but we lived in Cowdenbeath at 45 Blackburn Drive - in a postwar aluminum prefab. Attended Foulford School from '51 to '54 when we emigrated to Canada. I remember the "tunnel" open to the front of the ...Read more

A memory of Cowdenbeath

I lived on Hesleyside Road, Wellfield in the late 1950s/early 1960s and as a boy knew all the local fields and highways and by-ways. Although I left the area some years later as I entered my teens I never really lost touch with ...Read more

A memory of Earsdon by Neil Johnson

I worked in the NAFFI in Norton which was in Worcester inJan 1972 where I meet my hubby Michael Woodcock we went out for a bit and got married in the April no I was not pregnant.We got married in Pershore ...Read more

A memory of Malvern Wells by Elsie Woodcock

as the oldest member of the garvie clan .I thought I would leave my memories of the family on the Internet so that our grandchildren could always look back and see where our past started. the family consisted of Mary ,Theresa,Charles Helen ...Read more

A memory of Caldercruix by Matt Sloan

Born in Chelmsford in 1946 I grew up in Gt. Yeldham but after a career in the Fleet Air Arm the flying side of the Royal Navy I settled in Somerset. The small town where I now reside though quite away from the coast ...Read more

A memory of Great Yeldham by John Waller

Growing up and the family - Part 1 My grandfather William Morgan Cockram (son of Lewis Cockram) and grandmother (Mary Cockram) (granny and grandpa Cockram) took over the ironmongers after the death of John Richards. ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by Catherine Delahay

I was born down Roman Road Ilford sadly as long ado as 1947 but life in Ilford was good. Went to Mount Secondary School but left at the age of 14 and started work as a jnr legal secretary in a firm in Cranbrook Road. It was so great ...Read more

A memory of Ilford by chrishicks4honey

You mention two boys from long ago who were my friends. I wonder if they are still alive. Ridley became head boy at Ravenscroft, if my memory serves me right, and I believe Hoddinott ...Read more

A memory of Beckington by Richard Eaton