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Dear Sir, My parents Derek and Shirley Battye were the licensees of the Globe in 1965 and I have many happy memories of the time we spent there, I would often catch crabs from thec quay and first went to school in Newton Ferrers via the ...Read more

A memory of Noss Mayo in 1965 by Nick Battye

I remember North Thoresby primary school, with it's toilets across the yard. I went to the church St Helens and my Grandma is buried there. I used to go train spotting with my eldest brother Mick and I still keep in touch with ...Read more

A memory of North Thoresby in 1860 by Chrissy O'brien

The park was the place to be on Sunday afternoons, groups of teenagers lying on the grass listening to the top 20 on their state of the art flip top Ekco Radios that contained batteries the size of 6 iPhones, it always seemed to be ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1960 by Michael Yoxall

The picture shown is North Street, where my grandmother & grandfather lived. I always knew the village to be up the hill where some of the shops were. At the end of the houses on the right was the Home ...Read more

A memory of Kingsdown in 1940 by Maurice Lipson

My name is June Griffiths nee Crook I remember living at 3 Wren Street with my three brothers Philip, David and Andrew Crook. Myself Philip and David attended St Marks school in the 50's. I too remember Mr Platt, he used throw chalk at ...Read more

A memory of Gorton by June Griffiths

Dug out my old school report.. teachers on it Miss Holloway "He is still very dreamy in class" and I was top of the class!!!!! ,F W A Donaldson, P D Jackson,L Davis, J Fernee (wife of Jon Fernee) and of ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill by martin.doonan

Does anyone remember Uncle Jack who lived with his wife and mother-in-law in an ancient cottage without electricity or water? Always a willing smile and forever going up and down the road. Should anyone from those wonderful years at Crwys ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boat by griffatgoerlitz

I remember walking through cannon hill park in 1957 8 & 9 in the spring when they had the tulip festival on, there were coloured lights and classical music playing all along the walkway of the boating pond, where there were the ...Read more

A memory of Cannon Hill Park by thorntonkevin29

I was born in 1944 and lived in Cranmer Road until 1958. Our neighbours on one side were Mr & Mrs Norwood, who always sent round a portion of home-made spotted dick for me on a Friday evening when rationing was still in ...Read more

A memory of Edgware by Roger Bowen

Firstly let be be clear I've never visited Whitchurch Shropshire. I was party to a phenomenon which took place there in the 1960s/70s. As a young journalist on several Popular Music Magazines, I became aware of ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch