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Hello, my name is Philip Glass. I spent two years in hospital, one at Alton and one at Hayling Island. I am approaching retirement age and am desperate to see old photos etc around about the time I was there; I went in 1950 and ...Read more

A memory of Alton in 1950 by Philip Glass

I was born in Coleman Street, Ardwick, in December 1939, just as war broke out. I went to St Aloysius school. I have a book full of photos, memories of St Aloysuis etc. and I still remember every street in ...Read more

A memory of Hulme in 1945 by Pauline Wild Nee Mayoh

Not quite a historical memory. But only last year I began some serious searching into my father's mother's family. She died when he was a wee child, and he lost touch with her family. He is now 94 years old, and this year I ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 2013 by Lavinia Moore

Its the year I was born, so I don't have immediate memory. I grew up there and went to the infant school at the top of the hill on this photo, the corner store on the left is the beer off licence where I would go and get ...Read more

A memory of Swallownest by Charles King

HI .it may be a long shot my dad was out there during W W 2 I HAVE A PHOTO of him and two of his mates....in uniform. there are not many men left now .my dads name was bill kemp he was a cook at the time he was in PORT SAID .on the photo. Mabey some one will remember him.

A memory of Port Said by Bill Kemp

I went to Downshall Infants and Primary up to the age of 12 when I then went to Ilford Country High in Gants Hill. I remember the daily walk along Meads Lane calling for a sour grapes gob stopper that would dye our mouths ...Read more

A memory of Seven Kings in 1963 by Linda Bell

Born in the Green Maternity Hosp 1954, lived in Windsor Drive, Howden, Sandown Gardens, Howden and Prospect Ave. I remember being taken to the Masons Arms at Bigges Main in a pushchair, parked outside the corrugated iron lean to ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by Barry Hislop

in 1944 we were taken to St Agnes, me, my two sisters and my mum. I was only 5 years old. They put us in the hotel Driftwood Spars, St Agnes. I went to school there, I can't remember the name of it. My mum worked in the pub in ...Read more

A memory of St Agnes by Marie Sparkes

The gentleman in this photo is my grandfather Mr James William Arthur Reffold late of the Pump house that lays to his left behind the shop.the horses name is Jimmy he was a large ginger horse. I lived in Shackleford through ...Read more

A memory of Shackleford by dreffold

Firstly, does anyone have any photos of a thatched cottage that stood up on the back, opposite Ospringe church, as this is where I lived with my parents for a while. My surname was Hogben and I can remember my mother and my sister ...Read more

A memory of Ospringe in 1956 by Tony Hogben