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I think Furnisses was a pork butcher ? I remember seeing whole pigs hanging up in the shop. We used to buy pork scratchings as a treat.

A memory of Selby in 1965 by Katharine Hope

I was born at number 15 Swan Street before my parents moved next door, No.14. My family had people living all around the area, maternal in Swan Street/ Hargreave and paternal, from Model Place. We had a ...Read more

A memory of Darlington in 1960 by David Preston

I moved to Ham in 1959 from Kew and left in 1984 after coming back from a short spell of living abroad with work. I went to St. Andrew's school (now St. Matthias' church) then, St Richards with St Andrews on Ashburnham Rd. We lived in ...Read more

A memory of Ham in 1965 by Ray Gillon

I started school at Cranford Infants School 1974, Mr Hill school headmaster. I remember Ms Hickmett, Music Teacher teaching us in one of the huts and running to the school fields up to the river Crane where ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1973 by Appollo Mathews

I worked in Toll Gavel from 1967 thru 1973 at Greenwoods Menswear which used to be next to Mackmans Bakers. I used to have their meat pie dinners on a silver foil tray and they were yummy and cheap. Saturday lunchtime was fish'n chips ...Read more

A memory of Beverley in 1967 by Christopher Atkinson

This is my father sat in the boat fishing on the Ancholme. His name is Jack Waters, a well known Brigg butcher (Waters and Sons) at that time, in business with his father and a brother in Wrawby Street. The photo was more than likely taken on ...Read more

A memory of Brigg by Patricia Briggs

I lived in Suerry Grove from 1967 until 1981. Went to Pudsey, Primrose Hill from 1972 until moving to Pudsey Grammar School 1978 to 1983. I worked for a time at the Oven Bakery on Lidgett Hill and have great memorries ...Read more

A memory of Pudsey by Ian Falkingham

My name is Moreen Chadwick (nee Crandon) and I was born in Tyla Coch, Llanharry in 1941 at the home of my grandparent's, Herbert and Mary Crandon, grandad was always called 'Joe'. In them days it was just a street of ...Read more

A memory of Llanharry in 1941 by Moreen Chadwick

my first job at Tanners butchers that sold the best pies sausages and other foods ,I was there from 1959 till 1970 . fantastic place to work met lots of the stars of that time , and the locals were always so kind and giving ...Read more

A memory of Canford Cliffs in 1959 by Cyril Duffin

I was born over the butchers shop in Harborne Lane, my parents Harry and Gertrude Ludlow owned the shop. My mother kept the shop open all through the war years and I can remember marking off the meat ration books when I ...Read more

A memory of Harborne in 1956 by Graham Ludlow