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My grandfather was a miner in the South Celynen. He started off at the age of 13 and was made redundant when the mines closed! But what's more interesting about him was that he had two hobbies. 1. was the love for repairing old clocks ...Read more

A memory of Abercarn

I lived in Curzon Crescent when I met Tony. Was at Willesden Grammar school and Tony lived in Stonebridge Park area of NW10. We briefly lived together in a bedsit near Kilburn and Shepherds Bush. He had two sisters that ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by Marilyn Mason

I had a wonderful childhood in Lower Willingdon - we lived, my brother and I, in a bungalow in St Annes Road and went to the village school in Upper Willingdon where Mr Morrell was the headmaster. I remember in the playground ...Read more

A memory of Willingdon in 1950 by Maureen Wheeler

I remember Salts very well. I worked in the office from 1966 to 1969 - there were 2 separate sites on the Woolworth side of the High St; the drapery, fancy goods, babywear, womenswear, hosiery on one site and the menswear and ...Read more

A memory of Swadlincote by Linda James

Does anyone remember a sequence from the tv show minder being filmed in Percy Road in the early eighties? It was at a house a couple of doors along from Pauline Crescent heading south.

A memory of Whitton by Roy Pryer

Hi When I first started Brownrigg wearing red knee length socks only to find everyone wearing white. Went into Cheviot first and my first encounter with a teacher was Miss Savage - she lived up to her name. Miss Little was the ...Read more

A memory of Bellingham in 1964 by Janice Simcox

I was in Alexander Hospital as a boy of 8 years old with medical problems. I can recall a Mr Hammonds came every week to take some of us to the local church service. I also remember the teacher Miss Latter who came to teach us, ...Read more

A memory of Luton in 1948 by Raymond Marks

I was born in Silver Street in 1946. We lived near my grandma and grandad Firth. My mother was Emma Firth, and I think that she had two brothers and two step brothers. William and Ernest were her brothers, ...Read more

A memory of Whitley by Ian Allison

At the side of the Prince Albert there was a Club called The Cavalier Club, everyone came from all surrounding areas. The DJ played all the records, everyone danced, the blokes all wore suits and ties. It was the best club ever.

A memory of Golders Green in 1967

I was born in 1954 in Queens Crescent, Horndean, to Vera and Jim Thomas (both deceased), I had an older brother Roland (deceased). During the war my dad was in the Horndean Homeguard before being called up and my mum ...Read more

A memory of Horndean by Roy Thomas