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Getting up in the morning, before your mum & dad, meet your pals at the corner, head around Kilarnie Farm going to the River Devon to guddle some trout. We sometimes found a waterhen's or duck's eggs, so we would build a fire, ...Read more

A memory of Steelend in 1956 by Phil Mcintyre

I was born in Tean and in about 1957, when I was 8 yrs old, I was allowed to travel to Cheadle alone on the PMT service buses. I was 8yrs old. My gran would meet me at the cinema stop on Butlers Hill. She would ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle in 1957 by Janita Plant

We lived in St Michaels Avenue, just a short distance up the hill from St Mikes - and I attended Pen Mill Primary, which was a little way down the hill from this church. Our morning assemblies were held in the church hall, which had a ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1952 by David Stuckey

I used to live a few doors from auld Jimmy Sample and his wife Carrie, his son John was married to June and they lived in Francis Terrace. They had their rag and bone yard down the Winnin, anyway I would spend summer nights, weekends and ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1955 by Jimmy Burrows

I grew up at the Masonic Arms in Belle View, Shrewsbury. When I was a child my mother and I used to cycle to Bomere Pool near Bayston Hill to pick primroses in the spring. She used to tell me about the legends that ...Read more

A memory of Bayston Hill in 1956 by Sylvia Ashton

My memories as a son of a daughter of the valleys are: Rugby allowed in for free a half time Trains, lying in bed hearing the clang of the wagons moving coal and steel to and from the works Armageddon when the ...Read more

A memory of Ebbw Vale in 1952 by Bob Morgan

Dear friends of Burrow Hill School, has anyone got a picture of Mr and Mrs Rees's red sports car, I think it was an MG open top, can you help me please? Regards, Eric

A memory of Frimley Green in 1952 by Eric Morris

I grew up in Finechty and spent most of my childhood years down at the beach or climbing the Bin Hill or the Hill of Maud. The Hill of Maud was a good place to find seagulls' eggs.

A memory of Findochty in 1950

Dear friends of Burrow Hill School, my name is Eric Morris. I am asking you if you knew my brother Raymond Morris, he was at Burrow Hill School when I left in 1953, Easter time. He was there about September 1953 until ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1954 by Eric Morris

Hi, I was born in 1952 at Silver Terrace, Southdown, lived there till 1965, went to primary school at Blindwell Hill. I still have relatives living there, lots of older relatives buried there. Great memories of long summers wandering ...Read more

A memory of Millbrook in 1952 by Stephen Mewton