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Moved to Farraline Hall, Errogie in 1950 from Leeds. Dad was estate manager. Me and my brother Jeff and sister Jennifer in the back of a 7 ton flat lorry, sat on mattress under canvas in the back of it. I went to Errogie school, had to ...Read more

A memory of Errogie in 1950 by Christopher Robson

My family moved from Bermondsey, where we shared my grandad's house, to Enfield, where Mum and Dad had managed to buy their own house (for £2,000) in 1960. It was some years before Dad could afford driving lessons and then a car. We ...Read more

A memory of London in 1966 by Carol Fisher

The car in this picture is parked outside my old home. I wonder, was it my Dad's car? Not many of us had cars then. I spent many hours under the lamp-post as it got dark, before I got called in. We were pretty safe to play out in ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1960 by Dianne Lam

I attended Kirkburton First School (School Hill), prior to this I was sent to a Catholic school in Huddersfield, although living in Burton at the time, there was no comparison, Kirkburton School was like heaven following ...Read more

A memory of Kirkburton in 1958 by Mary Ryan

I was born in St Ives in 1939 but lived in Earith at what is now number 43. Next door was my Grandad's grocer's shop - Bert Russell. I moved to Peterborough in 1958 where I still live in Werrington Village. ...Read more

A memory of Earith in 1940 by Lawrence Wright

We moved into Avon Carrow in November 1991, just after the M40 motorway had been extended to Warwick, and started the most rewarding living experience of our mature lives. The Carrow has an interesting history for such a ...Read more

A memory of Avon Dassett in 2009 by Ian Hiley

Memories of War years 1939 -1945. By John Beal. Little did I realise that I would be involved in the army when war broke out in 1939. I was attending Hatherleigh Central School in Newport at the time and as a ...Read more

A memory of Newport in 1940 by John Beal

September 1958 I meet a vagrant I knew. In 1957, I was appointed to be Village Constable, at Lower Penn, Wolverhampton, an upper class district of wolverhampton. My station, was in Springhill Park. The beat was divided ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall in 1958 by John Mellor

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which was ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore by Peter Jewell

After passing the 11+ at St Johns School, Milton Road, West Hendon, I attended Orange Hill from 1947. I had quite a journey, having to take the trolleybus along the Edgware Road then a walk down the Watling Avenue ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by Ann Midson