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I was born in 1954 at 261, Uttoxeter Road, which was where the fire station is now. My memories are of a magical childhood in Normacot, until we were rehoused in Meir in 1970. Some of the places I remember with much fondness ...Read more

A memory of Normacot by Patrick Dono

I have fond and warm memories of school holidays in Bentham. I used to get sent to visit my Auntie Annie and Uncle Jack Heron, thay have a son, Roger Heron. Their house was a small terraced with the ...Read more

A memory of Low Bentham in 1962 by Robert Heron

My maternal grandmother was a Mary Bridgeland, born to Henry Bridgeland and Delia (formerly Quaife), in Catsfield, 12 Feb. 1872. She always said she lived in 'The White House', Catsfield. She married Frederick ...Read more

A memory of Catsfield in 1860 by Keith Fuller

Before John Morgan took over the shop with his wife Bettine (Freebody) the butchers daughter, it was run by two sisters - the Miss Read's from at least 1935. It is reputed to have been a bank at some time much earlier. The ...Read more

A memory of Chigwell Row in 1940

I was born and bred in Washington, in fact one of my claims to fame is I was born behind Woolworths, well No.3 House Terrace. My Dad lived in Washington for almost all of his life and when he past away (2002) he left a hole in my ...Read more

A memory of Washington in 2002

In 1911 my great uncle, Bernard Tomkys, was aged 54 and lived with his sister Mildred (single and aged 45) and a domestic servant called Bessie Hughes (single and aged 19). Bernard Tomkys was a doctor, a GP in medicine and ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1910

My dad, mum and sister moved to Mastin Moor from Tottenham, North London as Dad was a Policeman (PC Leslie Wetherall), this was in 1947. I was born there in 1948. We lived in what was the Police House just below what ...Read more

A memory of Mastin Moor in 1947 by Jennifer Mosley

I remember living in a terraced Street close to 'Vikky Park' as a child. We used to visit the war memorial after standing in the freezing cold watching my Dad play football... sometimes you couldn't even see the game for the fog. I ...Read more

A memory of Leicester in 1966 by Cheryl Cartmell

The houses at the end of the shopping terrace were my home for a number of years. They were called Giffords Cross Cottages. They were decorated for the Coronation celebrations. Attended Herd Lane Primary School and ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1953 by Peter Studd

Am trying to piece together my life while in England. I was sent to some kind of institution when I was a few months old, probably in 1945/46. I believe that place was in the North of England. Then my mother ...Read more

A memory of Heston in 1949 by Paul Langseth