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We came to live in Thaxted in about 1950, and though we lived in one of  the Borough Cottages, Bolford Street, which then were in a bad state, for me,  fresh out of an institution ( I was only eight), it was the most wonderful ...Read more

A memory of Thaxted in 1950 by Pat Weedon

I was born in Darlington in 1944, and in 1958 I moved to Newton Aycliffe with my mum, dad and two brothers.  We moved into a lovely brand new 3 bedroomed house at 38 Macmillan Rd which was heaven compared to the two up ...Read more

A memory of Newton Aycliffe in 1958

I remember this scene very well as I used to live a little way down the road to the right, on the way to Vines Cross. I lived there, in fact, until about 1967 when I went to study in London. My parents continued to live there until ...Read more

A memory of Horam in 1958 by Sandra Reynolds

My lovely memories are of going to South Shields from London to stay with my mum's brother, we stayed in Marsden Street and my cousins lived round the corner. We would leave London about 5 in ...Read more

A memory of South Shields in 1950 by Margaret Foyle

I passed for Tonyrefail Grammar school in 1953, what excitement. It was so strange changing rooms for every lesson, hockey, tennis, Urdd, teachers wearing cap and gowns. The headmaster was T.Bowen Jones and was called Boss. The ...Read more

A memory of Tonyrefail in 1955

A year too young,but nobody cared.The "White Hart",right beside the photographer on the left,and the "George",is the building across on the left."The start of a miss spent youth".Arkells had a beer,B B B, but we had a take on ...Read more

A memory of Fairford in 1958 by Geoffrey Herbert

I am trying to put together something special for a dear but frail old friend of mine and have been tracing the name of old employees at his workplace Evan Cooks around 1952 - in particular at their garage which was 72 ...Read more

A memory of Peckham in 1952

I was born and brought up in Widnes but we used to go for holidays in Bagillt where we stayed with an old friend of my parents, Father Holcroft. He was the local Catholic priest and we stayed in his house which had a farm adjoining ...Read more

A memory of Bagillt in 1959 by Brendan Flynn

I was a patient at the Southstoke Hospital in approx 1950 and again in 1952/53. I recently visited the village and was sad to find that the beautiful house appears to be 'run down' and the ...Read more

A memory of South Stoke in 1951 by Jan Bayliss

My Grandfather was Harry Kibby the Stores, Aberbeeg Bakers & Grocers. I remember visiting as a child every Saturday and sweeping the yard, my reward was a bottle of Coca Cola, unknown in those days. I collected my Beano from Lou ...Read more

A memory of Aberbeeg in 1953 by Glyn Davies