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I grew up in Parkgate when there were three pubs and three shops, I schooled at St Pauls Junior School, Headmaster was a very strict Mr Moore with Mr Teare, Ms Bowness I think, Miss Martin and Mrs Crossthwaite. Those were the days ...Read more

A memory of Frizington in 1955 by John Isaac Johnston

My family moved to Magham Down in December 1953, when I was nearly 5.   The Red Lion was run by the Mounsey family.  The shop and post office was run by Joyce Russell.  In the shop were sweets in large glass ...Read more

A memory of Magham Down in 1955 by Barbara Margaret Fletcher

My first visit to Newchurch was to see my grandparents who rented a flat at the back of the vicarage. My grandfather was Alfred Rigden and my step grandmother was Dorothy, nee Billing. They were retired at the time, ...Read more

A memory of Newchurch in 1954 by Doreen Bishop

My nan lived at 11 Basket Gardens, which was near the pleasaunce, and she would take us there when we visited her. It was a wonderful place, my favourite being the stepping stones which led through a small stream, My school, the Gorden, ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1954 by Jill Parish

I was brought up in this small village, lived at 1, St John's Road with my grandparents Frank and Emily Potter. Then, when the prefabs were built in Graig-Felen, my parents and my two sisters moved there. My dad ...Read more

A memory of Clydach in 1959 by Kathleen Potter

My name is Michael Mancey. In 1949, when I was four years old, my parents, youngster sister and I, moved to a brand new council house in Windsor Road. Although the postal address was Hounslow West, it was in reality ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1950 by Michael Mancey

My family moved to Waltham Cross in 1955 when I was 4 years old and I have many fond memories of the place . As a child I used to go to a little sweet shop that was between Aspland's on the corner of Park Lane and The Castle Public ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Cross in 1955 by Sandra Norris

For a decade or possibly longer I spent many happy hour at Fordell. We had the Moss Wood, the panies and the old ruins that the civil defence practiced at known to us boys as the 'civiy'. One of my best friends was ...Read more

A memory of Fordell in 1955 by Ian Horne

I was born in School Road, just off the High Street in 1943 and lived there till 1968. I remember Inwood Park with the boating lake and the paddle boats. The paddling pool, the tennis courts and the playground. I worked for four ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1951

We lived at 26 Stenton Drive at that time that mother was widowed. My mother, Katie, married my stepfather James Maule after being widowed. My father was James and his father was a saddler. Our house was burned down, there was ...Read more

A memory of Wishaw in 1955 by Peter Chalmers