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The long low building to the rear of the picture I remember as the Key factory (Huffs), my mom worked there for some time and we would rush to meet her on payday to get our treat. It was one of the few places in Essington to employ women ...Read more

A memory of Essington in 1965 by David Hector

My father was deputy head porter at the hospital, he worked there for 40 years. When I came out of the Royal Air Force in 1959 I did not work for a few months until early 1960 when my father gave me a job as a porter at ...Read more

A memory of Shotley Bridge in 1960 by Alan Sanderson

My Grandfather was the doctor for Kilcreggan from 1953 -1970.He and my grandmother lived at Kenilworth which was on the Shore Road.He was called John Campbell Miller.Our family holidayed there every year during the 1960s. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Kilcreggan in 1960 by Ann Liddell

the doctors more potty.too much booze

A memory of Powick in 1963 by Arthur Shields

In February 1963, when I was six and a half, my parents bought their first house, in Thorpe Road, East Ham. It was and had been a very cold winter, and when we moved in we had difficulty opening the back door, as there was so ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1963 by Jackie Craig

I remember the doctor used to visit the village once or twice a week & set up his surgery in Mrs Benton's house. Mrs Benton, (Alice, or was that her daughter?), lived in the cottage at the end of the row, furthest away in the ...Read more

A memory of Bulphan in 1960 by Vee Holt

I cannot remember the exact year but it was very cold. I was a TV repair man at Raylec in the High Street and we had a call from a doctor living in a house at the Asylum. She complained that the picture on ...Read more

A memory of Banstead in 1961 by Adrian King

The house on the right of the picture, I lived in in 1963, and was then called Pennyburn. The house next door on the corner was the local doctor whose name escapes me. I attended Holyhead Grammer School and went by train everyday from ...Read more

A memory of Rhosneigr in 1963 by Nicholas Farmer

I lived as a toddler in Kings Road, Cowplain, between 1958 and 1963, in the days when it was a cul-de-sac. These photographs really bring back memories. If I'm not mistaken, the small building on the right of the ...Read more

A memory of Cowplain in 1963 by David Crouch

I worked in racing stables in Exeter Road. In the spring of 1960 I was injured when a  yearling I was exercising suddenly reared and I 'went out the back door', narrowly missing the edge of the pavement, but hitting my unprotected ...Read more

A memory of Newmarket in 1960 by Eunice Chambers