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I was brought up in St Helens and Billinge was a hilly country village that was five miles away. In the summer of 1949 or 1950 a group of us children of all ages took sandwiches and bottles of pop or water for a picnic on Billinge ...Read more

A memory of Billinge Scarr in 1950 by Sylvia Kendrick

My aunt and uncle - Mr and Mrs George Pratt - used to manage the market gardens in Escrick. We had many happy holidays there, and I remember the peaches and apricots growing up the wall, rows and rows of ...Read more

A memory of Escrick in 1950 by First Name Last Name

I moved to Streatham from Clapham in 1956. I have an early memory of sitting in a taxi with Mum and my Nan while Dad went into the Estate Agents for the keys! I lived there from the age of 22, when we moved to ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1956

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

I lived with my grandmother who was Sara Catherine Roberts and we lived in Liverpool House, Penisarwaun. I was a teenager and lived there for about three years. I went to school at Llanrug, the one down the bottom of a lane. My ...Read more

A memory of Penisa'r Waun in 1958 by Wendy Ann Preston

My sister and cousins all went to a school in West Moors in the 1950's. Our family names are Spreadbury, Andrews, Stevens, and our parents were Olivers who lived in Grange Road, St Ives. ...Read more

A memory of West Moors in 1957 by Janet Timms

I was born in St Helens Hospital in 1957 to Eric and Phyliss Croucher. My dad owned the village Newsagent at the time and my grandfather Frederick Croucher and a Mr Fuller owned the grocery shop in the High St. Both my grandparents ...Read more

A memory of Robertsbridge in 1957 by Lynda Clarke

I was born at 15 Nelson Cresent, Percy Main on 29 April 1952. I was the youngest of 5 children of my parents Henry and Edna May Lake. My sisters were Elizabeth Beryl, Patricia Heather, Veronica Norah and Edna May. I grew up at the ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1952 by Graham Lake

I am originally from St. Helens, Lancashire, and met my husband, Roy, at Burtonwood AFB where I worked. He was stationed at Wethersfield but came on occasion to Burtonwood. When I moved south to be married, I had to live in the ...Read more

A memory of Shalford in 1958 by Anita Watson

I worked as a nurse at the hospital from 1955 to 1956 and went back for the first time in June of this year. It was really nostalgic to be there again, even though the hospital has long gone the Botanic Gardens are ...Read more

A memory of Ventnor in 1956 by Marjorie O'sullivan,Nee Brown