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I remember much of a childhood in Hounslow. We moved there approximately 1955/6. Grand parents Alice & Arthur, mum Shirley, stepdad Fred, Jennifer, me, Wendy & Christopher - Billy arrived a bit later. Some happy days. ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1960

The Seagoing Years. I must have left the Army sometime in August or September of 1949, and went back to C.J.King & son, tug owners, to carry on with my job as deck boy. This was not to my ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1950 by Arthur Cottrell

Some time in York I'd spend an hour or so within the Minster itself, and for me it was not fascination that brought me into the place; it was because its past history which was revealed. Take the Jews, many of which had came from Israel ...Read more

A memory of York by Roland Mitchell

I suppose, years ago, there was a Bedford market without old Ben. Can’t have been much of a market though. Anyway, as long as I, or everybody else I've asked can remember, old Ben has been down the market on Saturdays. Maybe he ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1972 by Brian Walker

My memories of the above are vivid in my memory, I remember Shawhead from about 1959 when we first moved there, when we moved in there was an old railway line that ran in front of the shops which then were the ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge by George Mc Conville

I remember moving to Pelton Fell at about the age of eight, number 9 Ferndene Avenue. The house was new and we were the first to occupy it. There was a small alley at the end of the street that led to the railway line. A ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street in 1954 by John Moffatt

Hello, my late father, Mr Royal S Flaxman (of Edinburgh Road, Lowesoft) and Dean Parkin wrote a very good book about the Lowestoft floods of 1953 called 'Wall of Water'. There's very few good books written about this ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft in 1953 by Simon Flaxman

It's the 5th February 1953 in the front upstairs bedroom of 15 Elm Street, and Abercwmboi welcomes a new resident - me! The house belonged to my grandparents, William Joseph and Claudia Morris. I was to remain a resident there for ...Read more

A memory of Abercwmboi in 1953 by Martin Wale

My mother, then called Billie Gwilliam, was living in New Cross in South London with her parents Bill and Connie Gwilliam during the Blitz of the Second World War, and has many memories of what it was ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1940 by Julia Skinner