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Carol Jakes used to take me to school! The cinder path to St George's school (now tarmac and very steep) collecting wild flowers in the fields, swinging on the tarzan and making dams! New Mills Grammar School with bottled green ...Read more

A memory of New Mills in 1955 by Janis Hett

Paul, I remember you building huge constructions in your garden. Happy days. I still talk to uncle Jack Edwards.

A memory of Seascale in 1960 by Tim Hollier

I lived, as a 10 yr old in Valetta Gardens and went to the local school from 1966-68 before we were posted to Germany. Many fond memories of running around in the fields especially Rabbit Hill.

A memory of Lower Stanton St Quintin in 1967 by Susann Phair

We used to live in the grounds of Riddings House in the cottage to the left of the main house. The two cottages used as accommodation for the head and assistant gardeners. I used to go with my dad up into the clock tower to wind up ...Read more

A memory of Riddings in 1954

One of my first memories was hiding underneath the sideboard in the dining room with silver ornaments on our heads; my sisters Judy, baby Michele and myself, Deirdre, ...Read more

A memory of Holywood in 1930 by Deirdre Sarnitz

Move to 31 Playford Gardens when they were built in 1955 as a kid. I remember the steam rollers still laying the main road, the new doctors at the bottom of Mancroft Ave, with Doctor Page and the open fields at the back where the M5 runs now. Good times and some great friends made there.

A memory of Shirehampton in 1955 by Steven Morgan

Well here goes, what can I say about Taxal? It was the best school I have ever been to, sometimes I wish I never left . Just like to say Mrs Dale is still well and alive. I remember all the teachers with fondness. I ...Read more

A memory of Taxal in 1974 by Clive Beedell

When I spent a couple of years training as an RNMS at Bromham Hospital, I used to live in Nurses Quarters at 1 Albany Road, Embankment, Bedford. I celebrated my 21st Birthday whilst there & my parents brought my brother & ...Read more

A memory of Bedford by John Smith

My aunt and uncle owned a house called Ferndale in Postbridge. It was just inside the signpost for Postbridge, coming from direction of Warren Inn, where the horsemen and their hounds used to meet. I was a young girl of ...Read more

A memory of Postbridge in 1960 by Pamela Lewis

Mum, Ivy Ironmonger, and her sister, Edie, were evacuated from London during summer of 1944 and I was born on September 19th that year. Mum gave birth in the front bedroom of number 78 Excelsior Sreet, Waunlwyd, one of the ...Read more

A memory of Waun Lwyd in 1944 by David Ironmonger