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I was born 21st august 1943 at 60 Bellefield Road, a house that is still standing, only a blue brick terraced house with a cold tap and an outside loo. This was quite posh because some people had to share their toilets with ...Read more

A memory of Winson Green in 1951 by John Hughes

I worked at the butchers, Rotherhams, delivering meat on a bike. My wife workd at Laidlers the chemist. Does anyone have any photos, or any info on when Waugh Bakery started and where?

A memory of Ellesmere Port in 1950 by John Wallis

From 1954 to 1965, every summer, I would travel from Belgium and spend the entire month of July at the Old Mill in Hightae. I will never forget. I would get on Grandad's bicycle and visit my uncle in Lochmaben, I would also spend hours at the ...Read more

A memory of Hightae in 1955 by Robert Dalgleish

I was an apprentice motor mechanic at Jarvis & Sons from 1957 until 1963, a most interesting time in my life. We had an unofficial motor bike club and did some lovely Sunday runs around the Surrey countryside. It wuld ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1957 by Michael Graham Williams

Both my parents were nurses at Claybury during the 1950s. My dad worked days and my mum worked nights. I can remember her telling me that when she did 'the rounds' during the night she used to ride her bike through the dark ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1950 by Hilary Hughes

1958 My parents, my two sisters and I lived in Stoke by Clare at a thatched house called Thatchety, opposite the Red Lion hotel. My father's aunt, Maudie Firth, owned the mill at Wixoe. My twin sister, Lynda, and I would ride our bikes to ...Read more

A memory of Wixoe in 1959 by Gerald Boyd

Surprisingly I remember a man setting up the tripod to take this, a short time before I had seen the same process under taken for the school photos. I wondered what he was photographing. I wasn't ...Read more

A memory of Godmanchester in 1955 by Andrew Mackey

My first memories of school were of Miss Barwood the First Year teacher. She lived in Oulton, driving to school in a china blue Morris Minor. The school was heated by coke fires in each class which a monitor would stoke ...Read more

A memory of Somerleyton in 1959 by Julian Burdett

I was born in Ewell in 1945 and lived with my family at 156 Banstead Road South from 1950 to 1966. My first school was Miss Attrel's at the top of Station Road opposite the garage. I used to walk from home and back although a bit ...Read more

A memory of Belmont in 1951 by Hugh Soper

In the 1950s as a young Scout, our Troop regularly did a day hike to The Cloud - getting the NorthWestern bus from Crewe to Congleton, then walking to Cloud End as we called it. there we played 'wide games', and brewed up on primus stoves - happy memories.

A memory of Congleton in 1953 by David Siddons