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Across the A20 from the windmill was the Windmill View Tea Rooms.  Shortly after the Second World War, in the mid 1940s, my aunts would often take me to the Tea Rooms and while they sipped tea I played with my friends ...Read more

A memory of West Kingsdown by John Osborne

In this picture, the post in the middle of the path is an old canon barrel. When I went for walks along this canal as a kid, I can remember running on ahead of my parents a short distance with my brother and sister to the canon ...Read more

A memory of Pontymister by Martin Blandford

I moved to High Lane with my parents when I was 15 in 2000. It was a tiny old fashioned village, so tiny infact that there was only one house and everybody in the village lived there. There was one village shop (run by Tubbs and ...Read more

A memory of High Lane in 2000

My first memories of school were of Miss Barwood the First Year teacher. She lived in Oulton, driving to school in a china blue Morris Minor. The school was heated by coke fires in each class which a monitor would ...Read more

A memory of Somerleyton in 1959 by Julian Burdett

My school was one of the first to go to Dukeshouse Wood Camp School just outside Hexham. This was in November 1945 shortly after the Second World War with the lads from  Gateshead at Alexandra Road school. ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1945 by Les May

Hi, my name is Richard Bierdrager. I went to Hurn Court School from 1975 to 1980, after which I returned back to my home country of Thailand and finished my secondary education with a high school diploma. The friends I had there ...Read more

A memory of Hurn by Richard Bierdrager

My family came to live in Ottershaw in 1952 when I was 5 years old. My father, Charles Coulson, had moved us from the North of England owing to lack of work since his de-mob from the RAF. He was employed as a ...Read more

A memory of Ottershaw in 1952 by Denis Coulson

I moved to Burnt Oak in May 1940, to 84 Fortescue Road. I was 4. My memories are like a batch of video clips, as follows: Moving in. Removal men trying to get a wardrobe into the front bedroom by ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1940 by David Brusselen

I was born in London, and my family moved to Culberry Cottage in East Pennard when I was about 8yrs or 9yrs old.  That was a short but happy stay in the area amongst the farm lands, animals and walks in the fields picking wild ...Read more

A memory of East Pennard in 1951 by Brenda Carter

My family lived in Woodhouse Eaves for a short while - it was a beautiful town and although I have few memories now, I do remember a local Doctor - Dr. Wykes, who taught me to ride a horse. I often wonder what happened to ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves in 1951 by Ann La Coss