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My parents (Mr C and Mrs P Gosling) used to own a fish and chip shop for 6 years. I have a fantastic memory growing up with my 6 brothers and sisters in that big house (please see photo). It had 14 rooms ...Read more

A memory of Wroughton

This memory is from the year of the Coronation (1953), I was 10 then and the street parties were on, we had ours in Spencers Steel Works canteen and we got a Coronation mug. We went to sleep by the sound of the steam hammer at ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

The War Memorial stood at the bottom of what was called the "Camels Hump" in "The Dean" - a wild adventure playground for all us kids. The Hump was used for sledging down in winter and ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1955 by Trevor Turner

I too spent about 6 weeks there in the early sixties. i had recovered from Polio but was very sickly. i remember sleeping in the woods at lunch time if the weather was good all the ground sheets where stored in a ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by baker.andrew

When I was sixteen (1967) I worked at the Eaton Stud and one of the large paddocks was called the Crook of Dee ,each winter it would flood so was never used or able to be used for for grazing , the flooding was looked on as a blessing ...Read more

A memory of Crook of Dee by allanperry1

In 1965 we bought a pony called Brownie from a family in Sicklesmere/Whelnetham. The house was up a drive off the main A134 road with paddocks either side of the drive and a barn on the right near the house. I think the owners also had a ...Read more

A memory of Sicklesmere by Tina France

My name is Jim O'Hanlon. I am 66 years old. I have just discovered this site and have seen a couple of places written about which provoke many nice memories from my childhood and early teens. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by johanlon2002

I was born at hopedean in elswick 1953. My mothers name was Eva may haddock. I wasn’t adopted but placed in a children’s home in hebburn when I had just turned 4 years of age. All my brothers and sisters were all adopted but I ...Read more

A memory of Elswick by Kevin Haddock

When we moved here in the summer of ‘83, we were so enchanted with the hall and grounds that even included a gaggle of geese in the adjoining field. They were great ‘guard dogs’ so to speak, as we never ...Read more

A memory of Llangwstenin Hall by Jamie Cuthbert

Used to live over the cafe, then downstairs when it was closed and made into a flat; the younger two of our four sons were born there (one upstairs and one downstairs!). our two eldest boys went to the village school, and ...Read more

A memory of Beadnell in 1962 by Derek Bee