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As children we stayed at North Side Head in Middlesmoor .. the farmer was called Tom Whitfield, his wife was Mirriam. We stayed in the cottage next door to the farm. As children we fed orphan lambs and collected eggs and had a wonderful freedom ... Happy days

A memory of Middlesmoor in 1966 by Jan Mcculloch

I should have said it was "Over the Way" that was the boarding house opposite Pitts Cottage that belonged to the same people. "The Old Way" was a tea house at the Croydon Road end of the High Street - there was a "co-op" grocery store opposite.

A memory of Westerham in 1963 by Marion Del Favero

I was born on Church St, Greasbrough, gran and granddad lived close by in a row of cottages alongside the top club now a car park? My father worked in the local pits and we moved several times. At age 10 we moved back to Church ...Read more

A memory of Greasbrough in 1963 by Mike Plant

We have many happy memories of the Bower Yard in 1962. We moved into our first marital cottage at 75 on the day we got married. The cottage was mid terrace overlooking the river and the wharfage on the opposite side. We paid the ...Read more

A memory of Ironbridge in 1962 by Ann Beddow

Re: St Mary's wednesday morning church service at Dewhurst Secondary as it was known in those days, I remember Stan Mathews falling asleep on his knees as in prayer. My mother now lives in the alms house next to the church, so every ...Read more

A memory of Cheshunt in 1963 by Trevor Monk

I was born here in 1956 at 5 Vaynol Cottages. The house with the plaque. I remember the trees across the river. I used to run from Pen Lon all the way home as they were very scary in the dark .

A memory of Llanberis in 1964 by Pauline Griffiths

I was brought up in Nailsea. My parents owned a toy and gift shop on Station Road rented from Bob Vance, later we moved to Noah's Ark Cottage. Built in 1666, it had all the original features intact, the stone ...Read more

A memory of Nailsea in 1960 by Martin Smith

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

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 have many childhood memories of Mevagissey. My parents bought a cottage in Cliff Street, Mevagissey during the late 1950s. We used it as a holiday home until 1965 when my father retired from designing Colt Houses (all timber ...Read more

A memory of Mevagissey in 1969 by John Hilder