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I am trying to find my Grandparents who lived in or around Alton. They were John Power and Martha Power (formerly Martha Brown). My father John Robert Power was born in Alton 18th November 1926 at 7, Tower Street Alton. He ...Read more

A memory of Alton by john.power

I remember chellow dene fondly from walking with my mum and our dog Lassie. Yes, I remember the ice cream place and water fountain. It was a place we always went to and then, when I grew up, I took my boyfriend who later ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1962

Late 1949 early 1950 I stayed with my mother, Mrs Dorothy Violet Lee (nee Gobbitt) at The Convent, Bocking. Born 1943 I would have been aged 6-7yrs. My time there was to await the move into our new home at 140 Church Street, ...Read more

A memory of Bocking in 1950 by Diana Lee Gobbitt

I lived in Keighley Drive, opposite Crossleys sportsfield until I got married and moved to Bradford with my husband. I have so many lovely memories of Illingworth and Ovenden. My brother went to St. Thomas More school and I ...Read more

A memory of Halifax in 1965 by Sylvia Moore

The name of the cinema at the top of Batley Carr was the Collins. I went there many times as a lad. I lived on Upper Cross Street on Bradford Road near the bottom of Mill Road.

A memory of Batley Carr in 1958 by Arthur Mortimer

This is not the Chadwick museum in Queens Park, but the Chadwick Orphanage on Bromwich Street. The park is located on Bradford street which is the road out of Bolton from the railway station towards Bury, at its ...Read more

A memory of Bolton in 1963 by Peter Lodge

Down St Mary School was built in 1878 on the site of the Bell Inn by the Rev. W T A Radford. In the 1930s I was a pupil in the infants' class which was divided from the upper class by a green curtain on a pole. There were ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland

Hi, my name at my days at Warnham Court was Elizabeth Jones. I was captain of Lewes. I have very fond memories of my there (1963-65). I was given the esteemd position of preparing Mr Savage's toast of an evening for ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1963 by Elizabeth Wall

I was born in Bradford 1947 and grew up at Redcar Road. I remember Glovers the newsagents on the corner of this photo and across the road in New Line just down from the Roebuck pub my mum took me on the bus every ...Read more

A memory of Greengates in 1947 by Allan Fawcett

This memory relates to the late 1830s and early 1840s. My great x3 grandfather, William Makepeace, was Olivia Bernard Sparrow's Footman. A number of his children, including my great-great-grandmother ...Read more

A memory of Brampton by Anna Barraclough