Search Results

I too have very fond memories of the open air swimming baths in Congleton in the late fifties and the sixties. I can even remember Alec Coles. Happy days. The water was freezing and it was always best to run and dive in ...Read more

A memory of Congleton in 1960 by Alan Brennan

Mrs Ingman, my Sunday school teacher, lived in the first house at Mill Terrace. The houses were so small inside, maybe two rooms downstairs and two upstairs but they had so much character.  Mrs Ingman seemed so old when I was ...Read more

A memory of Bersham in 1963 by Erica James

I was born at number 13 on 4/9/1950 and was happy there until my mam died, then me dad and I moved in with Sylvia and Fred in Woodbine Ave. I went back up home in 2006 and it had all gone, streets in my memory alone. I used to watch ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1960 by Pam Shepherd

Although I used to take my two children to the pool from Stubbington when we lived there in the 1960s my memory is of the 1940s when it was an adult pool with a high diving board.   A swimming gala was put on by the Navy and we sat on ...Read more

A memory of Lee in 1965 by Gaynor Boyd

I Moved to Wembley in 1948 at age of 2 and lived there for 22 years. We lived in Ealing Road opposite Lyon Park Ave. My friends and I used to go up Lyon Park Ave to the Iron Bridge which crossed over the railway lines and do ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1960 by Alan Riddell

I left in 1966 to come to Australia, I went to West St Infant and junior then to Ludford St. My mum was Betty Brownell, Nee Fleet. a tailor at C.C. Dad, Alf Brownell, a tool maker, worked at the Railway work shop until he ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1966 by Pamela Fawcett, (Brownell)

Tottenham. I was born in Tottenham 1948. I remember the White Hart Inn, Devonshire Hill Lane, and the dance hall at the back. Also the park round the back of the White Hart, where I spent so much time with all the kids from my ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1960

I lived in Ty Isaf, Park Avenue from 6mths old till 1964. I lived with a Mr and Mrs Macey. I was Underwood then, my friends were Jayne Vaughan, Barbara Walters, Janet Williams, Julie Rees and Gwyneth Clements. I have contact with ...Read more

A memory of Risca in 1963 by Susan Williams

My name is Ken Pickles, I have been in the Western Gazette may times over the years. Stories on my life that I had in Kingsdon and Somerton in 1963 to 1966. Visited Somerton every year since I left in 1966. I want to move ...Read more

A memory of Somerton in 1964 by Ken Pickles

My name is Bernadette McDonnell and I have memories of the convent between roughly 1959 - 1965. Does anyone remember Sister Alberta from that time? She used to work in the kitchens. Does anyone know if the cemetary is still there as ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island in 1960 by Bernadette Mcdonnell