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My name is Pamela Ross, I live in Leicestershire, 40 years ago, i went hiking around the area of Taunton, with my future husband and his friend, after getting off the train, and walking for some time, it was getting dusk and we ...Read more

A memory of West Monkton in 1974 by Pamela Ross

I was born in Dewsbury in 1965 and moved to Chickenley when i was 1 and a half,i no longer live there,we moved out in 1977 to the West Country,it was great growing up in Chickenley.I remember as kids playing on the disused ...Read more

A memory of Chickenley in 1973 by John Qureshi

Hi, Jo Parnell here and we lived at Southern Drive. I went to St James primary 1974. I remember having a lot of freedom to wander. Does anyone remember the electric circus ? I'd love to see some photos of the flats. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1970 by Jo Bacon

I remember that market square very well indeed. At that time I was taking my girlfriend from Stockwell Teachers Training College to my house to meet my parents for Sunday dinner in my father's Hillman Minx. Feeling very grown up and ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1971 by Wayne Ruffle

Growing up in Triangle in the 70s, I was the middle child of three children. My dad was Ian Whippey and my grandparents were Arthur and Lillian Whippey. We lived at 18 Rochdale Road, opposite the Triangle Inn, then run by the ...Read more

A memory of Triangle in 1970 by Sheridan Holmes

Throxenby Hall was a community home, I had the best years of my childhood there, I was there from 1969-74. All the staff were great, I had so much fun. I went to Newby Juniors before moving up to Scalby School, a very good school. ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough in 1974 by Ian Lambert

My wife, Elizabeth, and I bought a house in Sevenoaks when we married in 1971 and had nearly five happy years living just to the north of the town, close to Bradbourne Park lakes before business forced us ...Read more

A memory of Sevenoaks in 1971 by John Howard Norfolk

I was the licensee of the above for an all too brief time and had some regular customers who arrived every week-day evening at opening time and were called "The Club". Among them I remember a Ken & ...Read more

A memory of Colchester in 1970 by Ken Cramer

My father was replacing a back door in my grandmother's house in Tynewydd.  He laid the old one down flat outside while he started to put the new one in. I decided it would be a good idea to walk on the old door and my foot went straight ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert in 1974 by Meirion Hewitt

I visited St Peter's in August 1976 as part of a search for traces of my ancestors, the De Vauxs of Adlington, French Hugenots who first settled from France, in 1630. They became Yeomen farmers on the Leghs Adlington estate and ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury in 1976 by James Logan Bell