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I was born in Aylsbury in 1952 and lived in Linslade for the first 7 years, then moved to Bracknell. My grandfather, William Evans, and great grandfather, Joseph Evans, had both been the village bakers in Little ...Read more

A memory of Little Billington in 1956 by David Evans

In the early 1960's Bob Simpson and I opened the Harrogate Jazz Club at the Beechwood Court Hotel on Cold Bath Road. We booked the best bands from London and Birmingham; Ken Collier, London City Stompers, ...Read more

A memory of Harrogate by Barry Walker

I was born at 1 Donaldson Road. My dad was John White a marvelous singer, he worked at Haigs Distillery, Cameron Bridge for 46 years. My elder brother was Ron White. I played in the Methillhill Pipe Band in 1946, with Pipe Major Jock ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1930 by Doog White

Went to live in Crook: Rosedean, West Road, in 1937. Everybody spoke a foreign language even though I came from only a few miles away, Northallerton. Or maybe I was the one who spoke a strange tongue. Many happy memories of playing on the farm ...Read more

A memory of Crook in 1930 by Ernest Hall

I lived in Blenhiem Road, North Harrow in the 1950s and did a paper round covering a lot of North Harrow. During the late '50s I joined the Kenton Road Club and took up cycling seriously as a sport, we used to hang out at ...Read more

A memory of North Harrow by Ian Willis

My first holiday as I recall was at a caravan site called Willow Tree Farm. I think the site was at Peasmarsh on what I believe was the Burmarsh Road. The Prince of Wales pub was nearby but of no interest until I was much older! We used ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1954 by Laurie Packer

Hi, I lived at No 4 John St from 1948 to about 1960 before moving to Ann Field St and then up the Hilltown to Ann St (Carnegie Tower). The town council must have found out that I had moved down to the West Midlands, for when I looked ...Read more

A memory of Dundee in 1960 by Jim Mackin

We used to live at 96, Church Road where I lived as a youngster between 1956 and circa 1962 when our family moved to a new house in New Haw. I was 11 years old when we moved there from Rodborough Hill near Milford. The canal was always a ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet by Derek Russel

I used to spend my summer holidays at my grandmother's house in Middle Street and remember spending many hours in the Olympia amusement arcade at the top of the road that led into the old town. There was a juke box which ...Read more

A memory of Hastings by David Gerrard

Harlow as we know it today was the first London-area ‘New Town’ to result from the Town and Country Planning Act of 1946, a long-term plan to build a number of new towns around London to ease the housing crisis after the Second World War, ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1960 by Julia Skinner