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We arrived in Knutsford in September 1955: two bewildered parents and four children, the youngest only 10 months old. My father, a major, had been sent by the Canadian Army to take a year-long course in ...Read more

A memory of Knutsford in 1955 by Ted Gale

Hello all you Yorkshire people, wherever you may now be... Here is a poem I wrote about good old York. Enjoy. Shopping in the Shambles on a snowy Christmas Eve Playing hide and seek in Acomb Wood Watching Andy Pandy by the fire in our front ...Read more

A memory of York in 1955 by Anne England

I was born in Preston Hospital in January 1955. I lived in Charlotte Street and went to St columbas School. I remember being sent to get me mams shopping at the Co op in coach road.I still remember her co op cheque number 4575 this ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1955 by Mary Mand

My father, Ken Hatton, worked as a surveyor with Cementation, a civil engineering company from Bentley Nr. Doncaster. They were driving a water tunnel under the Trough of Bowland. At that time we lived in Clitheroe at ...Read more

A memory of Slaidburn in 1951 by Stan Hatton

I arrived in High Wycombe in as a young girl in 1946, from Scotland. I attended St. Bernard's Convent school. It was situated in a very large old house on the London Road, across from the Rye. We wore school uniforms, green ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1955 by Maureen Ingram

I spent a few weeks at the now long gone St Mary's Children's Convalescent Home overlooking the sea in Broadstairs, Kent. In the summer of 1956, when I was nine years old and my name was David Welsh, I was ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1956 by David Rayner

My parents opened Roselyon School, on the St Blazey road out of Par, in 1953, when I was nine years old, and ran it until they retired in 1970. Hence I knew Par pretty well both as young boy, teenager and young adult. Walking into Par from ...Read more

A memory of Par in 1959 by Richard Tomlinson

I was born in Singapore in 1950, my parents were in the Air Force. We moved to North Summercoates in the late 1950s/early 1960s. My father bought a pub and it was called the Bay Horse Inn, it was run by my mom and dad, sister ...Read more

A memory of North Somercotes in 1954 by Michael Mccandless

My sister Catherine and I attended Laleham Abbey from 1947-1952. Sister Margaret Rose was the Head and Sister Catherine Mechtilde her Deputy. We were sent away to boarding school after various entrance exams to day schools. My ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1950 by Clare Glover Wright

I was born in May 1950 at 85 Killingworth Avenue, Castle Park, Backworth. I was the only child in the street for a few years and I remember going into everyone's house for biscuits. I played with everyone's cats and dogs and ...Read more

A memory of Backworth in 1950 by Susan Monk (Nee Dakin)