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My dad worked in the colleries so come Christmas we went to a party at Caerau Library,you had good presents. There were church revivals there also, you had a good sing. There was a lot going on, my husband Stan went dancing and boxing there, it was quite a busy place, so big.

A memory of Caerau in 1960 by Eira Waite

I was born and lived at Longdon Green. I started work at West Cannock Colliery No.5 in 1951. I used to cycle to Rugeley every morning and store my bicycle in Jack Hill's shop doorway along with other miners' bikes, then catch the ...Read more

A memory of Rugeley in 1951 by Carl Linney

As a child brought up in Yorkshire, we spent holidays visiting family across the Pennines; mother's family in Liverpool and father's in Runcorn. Although he had done well, now a country doctor, father always seemed to think he ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn by Rob Oldfield

I am assured that my memory is not playing tricks on me when I recall elephants living in the large garden close to Dr Pritchard's old surgery. The nuns at the convent off the A 10 road used to terrify my sister and ...Read more

A memory of Swaffham Prior by Adam Scott

About 1940, at 9 years old, my private school, Willingdon College, was evacuated from Eastbourne to Ven House.  It was a most magnificent building, built in the 1700s and pretty unsuitable for a boys' school. I remember fine ...Read more

A memory of Milborne Port in 1940 by Mike Grizaard

I was at Laleham Abbey School from 1955-7 I remember the name Tania Morley. I think I may have been in her class. Sister Constancia was the head when I went there and Mother Sarah was Superior. She was succeeded by Mother Marie ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1955 by Phyllis Baker

As a child I spent all my summers in Pickmere at my nana's caravan on a camp site just across from the entrance to Pickmere Lake. My nana worked in the Happy Hour Club, and also in Happy Hour ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1963 by debbietaylor61

I was born in Bilston at my granny's house although we moved to Tipton when I was 6 but I spent most of my life around the area and have fond memories of Bilston market (the old one), it was magical when I was small. I was born in ...Read more

A memory of Bilston by Christine Metcalf

Memory, Saturday Night Old Time dance upstairs in theI.C.I Club. My father played there on the drums. I was there with a girlfriend and her mother and father and grandmother, the old lady taught me ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1957 by Robert Welding

My best memories of Porthcawl are when my gran (Mrs Gwen Ware) was alive, she lived at Elm Cottage, in New Road. I was very young in the early 1970s to the very early 1980s. Grampy used to take me to the park and Coney Beach, and every ...Read more

A memory of Porthcawl by peteseaton