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I was a day boy between 1966 and 1970. I was always in trouble and spent most of my meals on the punishment table. The ruling was tyranical, you had to eat everything on your plate and couldn't leave the table until you had done ...Read more

A memory of Bradford-On-Avon in 1968 by David Hammond

We spent part of our honeymoon here in April 1968. I had a tummy bug and used to go down to dinner not daring to look at my husband's plate full of food. All I had was a cup of coffee. He had saved up for a long time to take me ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale in 1968 by Wendy Oakins

I was Christened here in 1960, we lived at Bankside London Road. I remember walking from Reigate Hill down Gatton Bottom which comes out by the church when I was about 7 with my grandmother, it seemed to take forever.

A memory of Merstham in 1960 by Clive Jerman

I grew up and played around the Welfare Hall,r ows of pit houses were situated behind it, Pretoria Street, Earle Street, Kimberly Street. We would watch the shows in the Welfare put on by the Featherstone ADS, and I attended the ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1963 by John Barker

While living in Helensburgh, Scotland, I met and married a handsome blue eyed gentle man from Invergarry. Shortly after we moved there to live in a council house with his two children from a previous marriage. Soon we were ...Read more

A memory of Invergarry in 1966 by Joan Barron

My family lived in Stanner House, a lovely old house in Clara Vale from 1952 until 1964 - my parents moved there shortly after they got married in 1951. I was born in 1958 and can remember the house as if it was yesterday. In the 1800's it ...Read more

A memory of Ryton in 1963 by Helen Mc Guinness

We had a caravan in Kingsford Lane, Kinver from 1960 to about 1963, my dad bought it from someone in Wollaston and we used to stay there all the school holidays and weekends and my dad would go to work from there to Fry's ...Read more

A memory of Kinver in 1960 by Alan Hinton

I lived in Simon Crescent from 1967-1985. I had great times growing up in the crescent. All the people I remember are: Tam Taylor, the Dunnigans, Sandy and Jackie Crookston, the Smiths, the Mcmahons, Tam Page, the ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1968 by Colin Rollo

I remember being on the beach the day of the hovercraft coming to Penarth. I was there with a couple of my friends, I would have been nearly 16. We were really excited as we watched it approach then suddenly when it came on to the ...Read more

A memory of Penarth in 1963

I rmember playing football in Elm Road, going up the donkey woods, catching newts down the bottom wood, deep snow in winter, happy days.

A memory of West Cornforth in 1966