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I am trying to find Photographs, Drawings, or Paintings of the houses and if possible the Old Farm Cottages opposite the Heeley Parish Church on Gleadless Rd. Heeley. They consisted of a block of 4 bay windowed terraced houses, numbered from ...Read more

A memory of Heeley in 1956 by Leonard Young

Aged seven I would join the queue outside the cinema each Saturday morning for the children's matinee accompanied by an older cousin. Once the doors were opened we were ushered in by a man with a voice like a sergeant major,he needed ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin in 1951 by Lawrence Michael Whitfield

My father used to work at Astmoot Tannery until it closed in 1957, he wound up the books and company. There used to be a small shop in a person's front room, in the row of cottages at the bottom of Summer Lane and the owner ...Read more

A memory of Astmoor in 1957 by Paul Stephens

Many of the things that happened at D Y P were taken as normal. During the winter we ran around in the snow without shoes on, and why? because we did not have a second pair of shoes. The only pair we had were school shoes ...Read more

A memory of Dan y Parc in 1953 by David Palfrey

My sister, Mary, was born in 1946, where I was born 1949. She'd take me on the bus from Royston to see some films at the Staincross cinema. The only thing that I remember was that it was somewhat run down but yet had a feel about ...Read more

A memory of Darton in 1959 by Roland Mitchell

I was born in the Cottage Hospital in Upney Lane in 1950 and lived in Beccles Drive (Glenny Estate) until I married in 1976. My grandparents lived at 26 Upney Lane, next door to Mr and Mrs Welch (Vera Lynn's mother and father). I can ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1953 by Susan Mitchell

Half way down Garfield Road was the Recreation Ground; better know to all as simply the Rec. It was quiet a large area bounded on one side by Garfield Road and the other by the River Wandle, about which more another time. Along ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1954 by David Aubrey

I was born in Fiddington in 1947, in a very old thatch cottage, so I was told. we moved to Northway in 1950 to a new house in Elm Road - number 6. It was a three bed and living room and kitchen, we felt very pleased ...Read more

A memory of Northway in 1950 by David Trenfield

I remember attending the village school opposite Holy Trinity Church of which I was a chior boy for a few years. We had a local football team made up of choristors - we were very good. I lived at the bottom of the village in New ...Read more

A memory of Long Itchington in 1950 by Roger Sheasby

I was born on Room's Lane in one of three cottages near to the train station. My father worked for Roland Humphry. We moved to St Bernard's not long after I was born, the house was the previous horseman's home, My dad ...Read more

A memory of Morley in 1951 by Leslie Kershaw