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We lived in Gerrard Street, Lozells, until I was about 6. My father had an allotment where we would go and play, I still have a photo taken when I was about 4 of my father, older brother, and myself at the ...Read more

A memory of Birmingham in 1952 by Paul Carney

I was born in Abercregan in Prossers Terrace (41) along with my parents George Chewings, Edna and my two older brothers Michael and Thomas, also a younger sister Janice. My grand parents lived at no. 44 Tom and Cassie. ...Read more

A memory of Abercregan in 1966 by Alan Chewings

Hi I live in Auckland New Zealand, but my grandparents came here from Tyldesley in 1922 with their three young children. Both my grandfather Fred Needham, born in 1889, and my grandmother Charlotte Dutton, born in 1898, ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley in 1920 by Sharyn Arthur

My father was born in Kessingland in 1915 and as little children my sister, brother and me would go regularly to visit my grandparents there. They ran a grocery shop in Chapel/Church Road, the first house from ...Read more

A memory of Kessingland in 1953 by Sue Robertson Danells

I was born at County Hospital in Wakefield, and I recall living at Number 1 Smith Street, long gone and situated roughly where the bungalows are just below the crossings. I remember a cart coming round weekly to empty the ...Read more

A memory of Streethouse by Cyril M Woodhead

Hello I am researching for a book and need any information on a Dorothy Morgan who was born in !925. She was saved from drowning in Forge pond in Tredegar in Aug 1932. I don't know if she lived in Tredegar or was visiting during the ...Read more

A memory of Ebbw Vale in 1930 by John Michael Taylor

I grew up in chadderton born in 1945 mellow street then moves to Leslie ave bus driver with Oldham Corp then to Canada played drums in a oldham band in the 60s toured with the Hollies Kinks Moody Blues as a ...Read more

A memory of Shaw by Kevin Clarke

I grew up in 18 church street until 1955/6, when we moved to 69 Holts Lane it was a brand new house at the time, then in 1962 "I was adopted", and we moved to 47 field avenue Hatton also a brand new house, a new 'name' for me, my ...Read more

A memory of Tutbury in 1955 by David Babbs Mear

I, too, remember Birkheads with great affection though in rather earlier times. I was born in what is now called "Ashby House" which is being converted from an office building into a restaurant and flats but which then was the ...Read more

A memory of Walton-on-Thames in 1930 by Malcolm Macleod Carey

this is the hospital i was born in .My parents moved to london in the 50s from south wales. They have both past away ,we moved back to wales in the 1970s

A memory of London in 1964 by Catherine Jones