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This shot faces north towards the "T" junction where Queens Road runs across the North end of Camp Road. The road running off to the right in the foreground is "High Street" and used to be the terminus for the Aldershot and District bus ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough in 1965 by Billy Moon

I can remember going to the circus in the car park in Park Lane. It would have been in the early 50's which then became the site of the Tech College in later years. Also across the road was the fire station, before St George's tower ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Liz Morgan

My name is Debbie Sharples, I was born at 456 Great Cheetham Street in 1958. My dad was Alec Sharples and my mother Joan Sharples (nee Massey). My grandparents, Sarah and Harold Massey, were coal merchants who lived on Broughton Lane ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Deborah Sharples

Hello my name is Muriel Minshull, I was born in Whitefield and lived at 1 Statter Street, the two cottages are no longer there. I went to school in Whitefield, my teachers were Miss Cook and Miss Roland, oh she gave ...Read more

A memory of Whitefield in 1951 by Muriel Minshull

My grandparents and father were born in Brentford, so armed with an address from the census and a new-found enthusiasm for family history, I made my first ever visit. I walked along the High Street and found a large supermarket and car ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1978 by Celia Cotton

Hiya. My auntie was Hilda Bowcock married to Uncle Jimmy Flanagan who was the son of Mary Ellen Flanagan who lived at 52 Crown Street, Hulme. That was my grannie "Nellie". I wonder if Hilda was one of the Bowcocks you referred to?

A memory of Hulme by Janice Nelson

I think this was the year my dear Uncle Jim Crawford died and left my Auntie Isa and my two cousins Helen and Isobel.....all very dear to us in memory. We used to visit them in Polmeur Road, cannot remember the number but it was an end ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm in 1962 by Sarah Butt

I moved to Thetford from York when I was 2, my father bought a house in St Marys Road. I used to wake up to the smell of freshly baked bread from Barretts bakery. The bells of St Marys Church would ring out every morning at 7. My two ...Read more

A memory of Thetford in 1950 by Carol Boreham

This reminds me of John Rawlinson, Timothy Greenhow, Paul Manning and Anthony....? all good friends I left behind me when my family moved away from Leicester to Lyme Regis, Dorset in 1964. These ...Read more

A memory of South Wigston in 1963 by William Pedley

I was born over the butchers shop in Harborne Lane, my parents Harry and Gertrude Ludlow owned the shop. My mother kept the shop open all through the war years and I can remember marking off the meat ration books when I ...Read more

A memory of Harborne in 1956 by Graham Ludlow