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I lived at Harker Grange in 1973/4. At that time the main house was owned by the Meisner family who also owned Kangol. The rear of the house was not used by the Meisners and was rented out to other Kangol staff from ...Read more

A memory of Harker Grange by Marcia Kell

I was born in Easton Street in 1941 and remember seeing the air raid shelters in the street, that would be about 44/45/46 time. The street had a shop and a old stable like shed which sold veg and ...Read more

A memory of Thornaby-on-Tees by john.sweeney20

I began my working life as a junior clerk at the Wood Green Branch of the National Provincial Bank in September 1949. my starting pay was £2.13.6d a week. In those days we used dip in pens and bank statements were typed on a ...Read more

A memory of Wood Green

I myself live in Battersea London , I was about six or seven at that time, and I had never seen the sea befor. Their was a neighbour who had a girl called yvonne and her brother malcombe and they asked my mother whether ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick by Charlie Keeble

My father ran this wonderful pub, Edward Armstrong. Our family lived there from 1950, s my early memories were of a grand staircase , a smoky bar , clattering of glasses, laughter , noise, great atmosphere. ...Read more

A memory of Bramhall by tessa.stonier

My grandfather (Frederick William Steward) was a gamekeeper and lived with his wife ( Florence )and there 6 children in a single story cottage,it was deep in the woods, we always went for a weeks holiday there,my father always had a ...Read more

A memory of Frenze by janetmains

The medical welfare of the Jesuit students of Heythrop was the concern of Brother Edward Toon S.J., (1901-1979). He entered the Society of Jesus in 1922 and took his final vows in 1932. He was the ...Read more

A memory of Enstone by michaelpeterpeyton

My mum Vera Thurgood, eldest of 6 children was born 1914 at 96 Surrey Lane. Grandad James, married to Katherine was a coal merchant with 12 work horses in the back yard. He used to give me rides on them in the yard. The laundry, ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by Penelope Dudley

My Grandparents, Charlie and Frances Hawkins used to live at 1 Whites Hill in Tilmanstone, in the 60s and 70s. Back then it was a little white wooden house,a two up two down, with up and down wooden floors with ...Read more

A memory of Tilmanstone by wendyhawkins1961

Birkenhead in the 1950s – it bears no resemblance to how it is today – it doesn't even look the same. Most of the places I remember are gone. The streets where I grew up have gone – the geography of the place has changed ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by mcgraa