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This used to be a very busy street, with the Coop Store, butchers and the office at the back of the butchers, also the coal yard at the back. I worked at the Coop 1957 to 1963, very happy times. In the winter, the ...Read more

A memory of Moulton in 1957 by Jackie Tyrrell

I was born in Coundon in 1949, back then my parents and grandparents lived in William Street which does not exist anymore. My dad and grandad were both called George Gowton; my mother's name was Irene and my Grandma's name ...Read more

A memory of Coundon by Audrey Klueter

Born in blanchland street (well Richard Murray hospital) in 1944 . Lived there till 1952 then moved to bridgehill, lived there till married, now living in Scotland but still very interested in all that goes on in Consett.

A memory of Blackhill in 1944 by Helen Cassidy

this is the hospital i was born in .My parents moved to london in the 50s from south wales. They have both past away ,we moved back to wales in the 1970s

A memory of London in 1964 by Catherine Jones

I was born on the 06/08/1947, a home birth in the same bed as my great grandfather died in. His name was John Thomas Hare. My mother was Betty Hare and my father was Arther Buttle. My mother's father was David Hare who ...Read more

A memory of Ormesby in 1947 by David Buttle

On my grandmothers birth certificate in 1894 it states that her mother was called Isabella Green-Kaye and the address is 132 Mercer Street, Newton-Le-Willows. In the 1901 census it states that Marjorie lived with Charles & ...Read more

A memory of Newton-le-Willows in 1890 by Daryl Selbie

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

My birth certificate states I was born 1940 in Byfleet in an Emergency Hospital. Does anyone know where that would have been. Have no idea why I was there except my mother (a Canadian) was returning home to Canada ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1940 by Mrs Harris

I have vivid memories of Tolworth Broadway. As a child I was born in Tolworth (strictly Kingston Hospital in April 1948 just for my birth that is). Mum, my sister and I would go to the Broadway ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by Christine Roberts

At the time of my birth in the early 1940's, my mother was living at the top end of the village at 101 Main Road with my elder brother Tom - dad was in the army. We left Moulton when I was 7 ...Read more

A memory of Moulton by Peter Byrom