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This was a weekend to remember! The Clitheroe Morris Men invited several other dance "sides" to join them for a weekend of dancing, music and - of course - beer drinking! By a lucky chance I was ...Read more

A memory of Clitheroe in 1980 by John Howard Norfolk

It's twenty five years gone March since the miners' strike but it does not seem like five minutes to me and my family. I remember it like it was yesterday. Many families went ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1984 by Karen Surtees

My name is Alan Trageser and I was an American Airman living in Westleton from 1981 to 1985. My son was born at Ipswich hospital. My greatest memories are of the wonderful people I met there like the older couple that befriended ...Read more

A memory of Westleton in 1981 by Alan Trageser

My memories of St Combs: When I was a wee boy going out to visit my granny and granddad in Fishie, my granda Paddy used to take me out for a ice cream to the wee fish 'n chip shop in the middle of St Combs ...Read more

A memory of St Combs in 1983 by Scott Gray

Not long into married life we both walked into a miners strike that lasted until 1985. This was very hard having to adjust to married life and without no money because of the strike we both lost our first home. Soon ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1984 by Karen Surtees

I spent many a Saturday, walking the woods of the tower, beating sticks and making noise. After a good 8 hours trudging up and down slopes and in the mud, they feed us a bowl of bad stew and beer. There was always a joke about who got ...Read more

A memory of Hoghton in 1983 by Vicky Keating

I was the village beat bobby from 1983 until 1994, I lived in the police house in lower Farringdon, I covered the villages of Chawton, Newton Valence and east Tisted.I was PC 1609 Clive Cutts, but later changed my surname back ...Read more

A memory of Lower Farringdon in 1983 by clivejac

I think it was 1986. My late mate David Tidmarsh and I were invited to his grandparents' farm for a week. I really enjoyed it. Fresh food everyday picked from the farm and cooked. David's dad, Steve, took us there. We went for walks, ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert in 1986 by Derek Oram

From early 1984 to March 1987 I had the pleasure of being the Landlady of this public house. Many good times (some bad), many lovely customers, some of whom became friends and not forgetting all the people who came to ...Read more

A memory of West End in 1986 by Vee Williams

I remember being a young whippersnapper in the good old Kippers Junction and the man who lived on the end of the street was named Joe Bigs. But he was always smoking about 20 snouts at 1 time. So we used to call him Old Smokey Joe - he didn't like the name but no wonder we called him it.

A memory of Tullibody in 1980