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Good times. No electric, log fires, paraffin lamps, everything cooked on the old faithful black lead grate which I had to clean every week. No running water - my job every night when I got home from school was to get the ...Read more

A memory of Four Ashes in 1954 by Michael Jones

I am trying to trace a very old friend. She was Ann Williams and her father was the landlord of the Dyfryn Hotel in Caerau. Ann married someone ? from Clarks Shoe Shop in Bridgend in around 1953/54. Is there anyone out there who ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1953 by Brenda Smith

My nan and grandad lived down here, I can remember walking down here hundreds of times, sometimes with my mum and others with my auntie Joyce, I really loved her she used to give me tomato ketchup sandwiches, and my grandad's front ...Read more

A memory of Merrow in 1956 by Christine Vaccaro (Mundy)

In my father's diary for 1952 - I have all his diaries here in Frankfurt, Germany, where I have lived since 1973 - there is an entry : Stanley Watson, Governor of the Harris Orphanage, was sent for trial. ...Read more

A memory of Preston in 1952 by Diana Dioszeghy

Does anyone out there remember the appalling air crash in The Valley, Bemerton Heath. If so, I would be interested to hear further comments and stories. I was very young at the time maybe 3 years of ...Read more

A memory of Salisbury in 1951 by Gabrielle Collins

There was another children's home in Hitchen Hatch Lane, Sevenoaks which I believe was called Hitchen Hatch House. I do remember calling there once, can't remember why. The Rock House home was in Chipstead Lane and I had a ...Read more

A memory of Riverhead in 1954

Hi, I lived in the village when I was a boy. I went to the junior school. My dad worked on a farm, we lived next door to the farm. My friends were Pat Jennings and Gordon Petch, we did everything together, lots of ...Read more

A memory of Worlaby in 1958 by Derick Smith

How exciting it was to find the Reference to Elm Farm. As a boy I grew up on Elm Farm and remember very fondly collecting eggs up in the hay barn & milking the cows. Mrs Tompkins was my mum, selling eggs & produce. I can still ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1953 by Bruce Tompkins

Porch Cottage must be called the happy house because as three little girls from a chemical town in the North West we also spent our summers there......of course we are now aged 58, 61 and 63 years ...Read more

A memory of Luccombe in 1958 by Maggie Fowler

What a joy to read all the memories. I lived in the terrace houses down the side of the Welfare, leaving when I was 12 to live in the new Coal Board estate. All my childhood was spent playing down Green Lane on the pit stacks, ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1950 by Susie Williams