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My father was a patient at Heswall in the late 40's. He was suffering with Perthe's disease (a disease of the hip) and he was there for about 18 months. His name was Alan Rudkin. He was ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1948 by Alan Rudkin

A great place to grow up. All day when off school, girls and boys would play manhunt and see who could go the highest on the swings. The park keeper Jock; we'd hide when it was time to close the park. Paddling in the boating lake... great times.

A memory of Crosby in 1968 by Paulette Bernstein

Who remembers going to the Swing Park at the bottom of Lodge Hill? We used to play pick up the lolly stick - laying down on the roundabout. And a blindfold game was played on the Big Umbrella - The game was called L O N D O ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1972 by Joanne De Wit

I lived at 11, wickham highams park until I got married in 1968. Went to Selwyn infants which was mixed then went next door to the junior girls school as the boys school was the otherside of the infants. At age 11 went to Sidney ...Read more

A memory of Highams Park in 1947 by Christine Bouchard

Does anyone remember or attended Northcliffe County Secondary School in Shipley during the early 60's. I can remember the Headmaster being Mr Bartholemew. Our RI teacher was Mr Scott, Geography teacher Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Shipley in 1965 by Liz Matthews

I have fond memories of Luton, I came with my mates from Markyate village on the 364 London transport bus to Park Sq. we would then board a red corporation bus for the swimming pool off the New Bedford road at Leaside, ...Read more

A memory of Luton in 1952 by Neil Fleming

I was born 1965 at Walton Hall and for the first few years of my life lived at Warmfield Lane opposite George Shaw's farm. We then moved to Woodland Ave in Kirkthorpe, a small house with a huge garden that ...Read more

A memory of Kirkthorpe in 1970 by Ian Shaw

My father, Samuel Thomas Harrison, worked on the Birmingham Co-Op Nurseries between 1948 and 1952. We lived in a flat over what had been the laundry for the 'Big House'. Later the laundry was developed into a very attractive house ...Read more

A memory of Moreton Paddox in 1940 by Geoffrey Harrison

I can remember going in J E Cooke shop for chocolate and papers, and just past this shop on the left was Amblers fish shop where we went for our fish and chips. On the other side of the road I went into the butchers for meat ...Read more

A memory of Mansfield Woodhouse in 1955 by Maureen Hawkins

Scouting Life during the Forties I was born in January 1936 in a large village, Lemington in Northumberland, England. Lemington bordered on the limit of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was a working class area ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1944 by George Ritson