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I was born 5 Monica Street in 1943, my earliest memory is of a huge hound leaning over me - for some reason I wasn't frightened. In my twenties looking through some photos with my mum I found my hound, a very small terrier which ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1943 by Janice Rose Nee Mordecai

If you walked around the first corner to the Odeon you got a good view of the old Blast Furnaces that use to turn Corby's night sky orange. It never got dark in the Corby of my childhood. The Candle and all the steel and tube mills lit ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1962 by Kenneth Little

Hi, my name is Roy Mozley & I was born in 1948 in a prefab in Rydal Avenue, Winton. We then moved to Lambton St, Winton. This was our football pitch then, main problem was this guy who, lets say, used to visit a ...Read more

A memory of Eccles in 1950 by Roy Mozley

I was born in Middleton in 1957 and we lived in Pork Street which I believe no longer exist. People I remember living there at the same time are the Woods family, Peter and Trevor Fox with their mum and dad, Conrad and ...Read more

A memory of Middleton in 1957 by Lynda Wilson

I was born at Livingstone Hospital. My parents had the fishing tackle shop at 68 Lowfield Street, Dartford. Both my parents were on the Dartford and District Angling and Preverseavation Society Commity. It ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1945

My parents ran the George and Dragon. I can just about remember the place, but I do remember my brother and I sitting in a paddling pool aged 5 and 1 throwing water over the balcony. Our misfortune was it ...Read more

A memory of Ashton in 1960 by Steven Schrimshaw

I was born in 1933. My family lived in Nansen Street, Salford until 1939, when we moved to 27 Winster Ave off Littleton Rd where I attended St Sebastian School off Whit Lane througout the war. In 1947, by ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1947

1960 to 1983. I was born at the QE in October 1960. My parents lived with my grandparents at number 17. My grandparents moved into the house when it was new (built by Leech) in the late 30s. They intended to buy but the war ...Read more

A memory of Lobley Hill in 1963 by Pauline Koritsa

Nearly every house had an outside brick coal shed, as this was the only method of heating and cooking. Most houses had a short set of about 2-3 steps in the middle due to the slope of the land they were built on, ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1940 by John Harvey

My name is Mike Wilson, I was born in 1952 and lived in Lochore in the prefabs, and then later on Kenilworth Terrace. I moved to the states in 1967. I have great childhood memories of those days. My friends were George Whiskers and ...Read more

A memory of Lochore in 1960 by Mike Wilson