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I lived in Bassaleg from the age of 3, (1955), when Church Crescent and surrounding area was being developed. I lived in Church Crescent with my family until I left for Manchester in 1976. I went to the ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg in 1966 by Linda Sullivan

I was born in 1956, in Wiltshire, but my first memories are of Pawlett, where we moved, when I was very small. It was a smaller, quiter village than it is even now. I went to the village school, on the village green, next to ...Read more

A memory of Pawlett in 1961 by Rene Rees

When I look back, they were probably the best years of my life though I didn't think so at the time, my mam had parted from my dad, I was 12, had never heard of Cargo Fleet, had lost my dad and was taken to this place Id never heard ...Read more

A memory of Cargo Fleet in 1968 by Alison Jones

I think it was 1964 that the Town Hall burnt down. I remember it well. I was about 11 at the time. I do remember that at the back of the TH, was the Police Station. My brother and I got in some "trouble" and the two of us were ...Read more

A memory of Hove in 1964 by Alan Ogilvie

I was born opposite the clinic in, I think, High Street, My dad's name was Melbourne Haig Scurlock, my mum's Ann Cleverly before marriage. My dad had TB whilst he was young so he worked in the Remploy which didn't pay very ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1962 by Fiona Scurlock

I started work at the age of 15 years as 'the boy', apprentice mechanic at Mossford garage. I remember going down the High Street to Pither's bakeries to get ham and cheese rolls, as well as pies for the mechanic's tea breaks. The ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside in 1965 by Glenn Savill

The large Horse Chestnut tree to the right was very popular when conkers were in season with boys searching the ground and throwing whatever came to hand at the tree to try and dislodge the nuts that were temptingly out of ...Read more

A memory of Harworth in 1964 by Steven Farminer

If you head down Lampits Hill and carry on past Giffords Cross road on your right, you then enter Church Road, the next road on your left is Fobbing Road. Opposite this junction is a building called the Old School House, this was the ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1960 by Dave Coombes

I remember playing on 'The Patch' at the top end of Filey Road. It was mostly long grass in those days, except where the lads had trod it down in the middle playing footie. Every year all us kids would collect wood for a huge fire on ...Read more

A memory of Fordhouses in 1965 by Julie Rowley

I remember going to school in Loughton from 1961 until 1965 when I left to start work. I would love to make contact again with anybody that remembers me from way back then, especially my friends Susan Hunter and Sandra Stock, both ...Read more

A memory of Loughton in 1961