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This is the place where in the early 1960s I took my mother to visit and stay with her sister Bertha. During our stay my mother and Bertha (there was another sister called Freda, she ...Read more

A memory of Misterton by Anthony Spracklen

This is from about the 1950s. Along Grange Road was a huge piggery and it was owned by the Liddle family, by, did it pong. Further along you came to the railway crossing with the sign STOP, LOOK, LISTEN in red, this was where the ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

We moved to Bromley Cross about 1947 just before my sister Virginia was born, it was a lovely new prefab, but I don't remember much about the inside of it apart from the wood-burning stove, that sticks in my mind for some ...Read more

A memory of Bromley Cross in 1947 by Julie Christo

our family lived in the huts at cross keys militia camp for around 10 yrs or more.yet nothing much is revealed in the history of roxwell about these camps.the cross keys camp housed homeless families till it was closed down.yet ...Read more

A memory of Roxwell by fraxinus10a1

I was so homesick. The song "Deep Purple" made me cry because I'd heard it at home. We had two visitors the first Sunday of the month from 2.0-4.0. We went home for a month at Pesach. I wasn't allowed to go to my brother's ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1942 by Berenice Greenberg

And so i became a full teenage worker, ha ha , off to earn all that fabulous money, to buy all i wanted and roll around every where in style, be like the grown ups , drink beer down the pub or up the pub in ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood in 1966 by Nicolas Fumarola