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Hello, my name is Barbara Wearing (Nightingale). I had my first job at Robinsons bakery, I was 15, I felt so grown up. I came from Wednesbury but spent happy times at West Brom, I used to go to watch the ...Read more

A memory of West Bromwich in 1967 by Barbara Wearing (Nightingale

The picture of Cove, West Heath Corner, is the bottom of Minley Rd. To the right is what was then called Hawley Rd, to the left is what was then called Fleet Rd. The large house between Minley Rd and Hawley Rd belonged to the ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1944 by Anne Terry

The large building on the right is the Community Centre, built as an art school to improve the standards of design which in the 19th century was very poor, particularly in the glass industry. Opposite was a parade of shops, just ...Read more

A memory of Wordsley in 1950 by Geoffrey Lowe

My house backed onto Wyndham Hill and I spent my childhood playing over there. My cousin and I loved to watch the steam trains passing by and sometimes (if our parents weren't nearby) would run onto the bridge at Pen Mill ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1966 by Kim Cavanagh

When I was a little girl growing up in Norwood Green in the '60s, I can remember being sent over to the shops to fetch our daily bread order, a loaf of Mother's Pride in a red & white striped waxed wrapper. The parade of six ...Read more

A memory of Norwood Green by susan-mills

The Lion & Swan Hotel Congleton Story has it that The Lion & Swan in Congleton was made from ancient timbers, even today there are some solid twelve inch by twelve inch supports on display but who knows where ...Read more

A memory of Congleton by Alec Coles

I well remember living on Sandford Hill very close to Whites farm,which is now taken up by the estate known as Saxonfields.Myself and friends regularly played football and cricket where the Old Sal pub is now built. How well I ...Read more

A memory of Sandford Hill by fotosplease

My father grew up in Dinnington. He lived on The Crescent with his mum, dad and 2 older sisters. Once married, he settled in Manchester, where my 2 sisters, my brother and myself were born. Having no family car, visits to my grandma ...Read more

A memory of Dinnington by Maureen Oates

As a boy of thirteen, with my family, after the war, I spent all my school holidays in Cornwall. Six weeks with my Uncle Arthur and Aunt Mabel in a tied cottage on Lower Tregantle Farm near Torpoint. The very air was ...Read more

A memory of Lower Tregantle by Brian Conn

Rock House in chipstead lane i think. I, Tony Renwick, lived in marlborough crescent went to amherst primary school in the 1960s. I remember an amusing boy fred and another girl from rock house ...Read more

A memory of Riverhead by renwick10