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I spent a year living in the Abbey House from Sept 1967 to July 1968 with my dad, mum, and younger sister. My grandfather, Hugh Leir, owned the house and lived in the older/original part of it for that year too. I was 11 years ...Read more

A memory of Ditcheat in 1967 by Brian Salter

I was born 1949 and lived at Townfoot Farm till 1957. I knew of the Tinniswoods, I am not sure which generation. My dad was a friend of Loise Judson and I remember the son John. I had a friend in Andrew Kidd and were good friends of ...Read more

A memory of Lazenby in 1957 by John Harold Siddall

We had a caravan in Kingsford Lane, Kinver from 1960 to about 1963, my dad bought it from someone in Wollaston and we used to stay there all the school holidays and weekends and my dad would go to work from there to Fry's ...Read more

A memory of Kinver in 1960 by Alan Hinton

Back in early 1977 I worked at Brantridge House, Balcombe of which I have very fond memories. Perhaps someone knows how I can make contact with either Gladys from Corwall, or her daughter, who would now ...Read more

A memory of Balcombe in 1977 by Eugene Weldon

My memories of Chickenley was learning how mutch we depended on each other, neighbours were important, we all used to go to the tip (football/recreation ground) to play our games. I now live in Mirfield, I am retired, and ...Read more

A memory of Chickenley in 1958 by Kevin Mcaulay

I was born during the Second World War in 1942, the 8th child to my parents at Goose Bridge, Matching Green. My parents were Scottish and people thought they were foreign. My dad worked for Mr Gemmill's farm ...Read more

A memory of Matching Green by Mary Burton

In 1977, my late husband, Ron. and I moved from Melbourne, Australia into 28 Stoke Lyne at the end of the village. It was very dilapidated, consisting originally 2 workman's cottages. They had been converted to one ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Lyne in 1977 by Pat Shelton Astley

Hi Mate. You wrote under Greengate and Irwell banner. During the late 1940s, I worked at The Salford Electrial Instrument works in Silk Street. Many a day I walked to Victoria Rail Station via Greengate on my way home ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1940 by Donald Isherwood

The BBC is looking at the day that Margaret Thatcher introduced the 'Right to Buy' scheme, allowing people in council houses to buy their own homes. The film will look at the benefits for several million people ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1979 by Real Life Media

I remember going to the Odeon every Saturday morning, it cost 6d (about 2 new pence). We used to go to the 'pictures', as it was called then, as a family most weeks, and I well remember coming out at the end of the ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1940 by Pamela Harman (Keene)