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My parents owned Unlawater House from 1963 until the 1970s. It was their first house when they were in their twenties and they ran it as a private children's home. I spent the first eight years of my life there and have great memories of ...Read more

A memory of Newnham in 1966 by Elizabeth Prankerd

It was a happy childhood, I was born in Etwall in 1954 and our council house in Windmill Road is still our family home. Some of my fondest memories are the simple pleasures of life as a young lad in the 1950/60s. Always keen to get home ...Read more

A memory of Etwall in 1963 by Vince Cooper

Having lived at Downton from 1958, I grew up opposite Downton Holiday Camp. My father owned the builders next to the pub and I bought my first car at the garage 2 doors to the right. Somewhen in the mid 1960s  I met the new ...Read more

A memory of Downton in 1960 by Jeremy Jez Caesar

I can remember setting off to London to see my sister from Boldon Colliery station and this started my interest in railways. I was hooked and was a regular at the station in the years of 1959 to 1963, trainspotting and ...Read more

A memory of Boldon Colliery in 1961 by Eric Davies

My memorys of Nefyn: Our family used to stay on a caravan site just outside Nefyn village up by the little garage and football pitch. We came from Liverpool, and me and my sisters Ann and Tereasa and ...Read more

A memory of Nefyn in 1967 by Ronnie Proffitt

I think I was one of the first Spanish students that went to England to learn English. This was forty years ago, and I suppose that I have lost a lot of my English. I lived in the Franciscan Convent School from September 1969 ...Read more

A memory of Copthorne in 1969

I was a summer season driver of these boats during my college holidays in the early 1960s. We operated four boats, Silver Foam, Silver Stream, Silver Crest and my own boat, Silver Dawn, which I believe came from the Norfolk Broads. The ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1960 by Edward Donnelly

The old High Street was a hive of activity especially in the summer months, I remember the Acropolis coffee bar which was run by a Greek family including Archie Aggro who was a very tough character and stood no ...Read more

A memory of Folkestone in 1966 by First Name Last Name

I grew up in Malden Road and went to Wallington Grammer School. I vividly remember having to walk to the bus stop in Ewell Rd every morning and sometimes having to run for the bus as it waited at the traffic lights. Luckily it was one of the ...Read more

A memory of Cheam in 1966 by Trevor Warr

I am just remembering Moss Hall and Mr and Mrs Yaylor and their son Stan who lived in a cottage near the copse, and how at a night time you would stand outside and listen to badgers crying, it was really such an amazing place, the ...Read more

A memory of Gresford in 1965 by Philip Kersey Smith