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There stands the Craig, dark austere majestic, landmark to mariner, constant proud monastic. Lonely place viewed from afar, awesome place much to adore, volcanic rock in form and mode, midst jagged rocks the birds ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie in 1960 by John Allan

I was born in 1941 in the Maternity Home in Honeypot Lane. We lived at 595 Kenton Road just opposite the Church where we went to Sunday School and Brownies. There was a garage on the corner, opposite a row of shops and waste ground ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by tara1999

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone we ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

Millers Yard was in Grove Street opposite the Old Oxford Bus Company. Millers yard was founded by Mr Edward R Miller given its name of E.R. Miller until the late 40s / Early Fifty’s when sold to Mr Ivor P James, later taking on ...Read more

A memory of Wantage by martyn.litten.james

I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

My family lived on the Royal Air Force housing estate in Raleigh Road at the top of the hill in 1968-1969. I remember cutting down through the most beautiful meadow and through the Church to the shops. The village was unspoilt, ...Read more

A memory of Padstow by tara1999

Since my birth coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in the September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity;  I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey house ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1945 by Heather Rohrer

I remember buying fish and chips in Gallaway Road, Greengates 1955+. Unknown to me at that time this fish shop used to a greengrocer's shop owned by my grandfather Lister Carter around 1935/40. My father was born at ...Read more

A memory of Greengates by Keith Carter

My brother and I were packed off to Scotland from London each summer to visit our ancestral homeland, whence we would visit our Aunt Daisy and Uncle Adam at their place next to the old Braidwood school near the bottom of the ...Read more

A memory of Braidwood in 1967 by kwilson_57

It was that cold, cold winter of 43/44 during the war that I remember so well. Please forgive me for I was not a Fair Oak boy but my memory is from there. I lived in Bishopstoke as a lad before, during and after ...Read more

A memory of Fair Oak in 1943 by Frederick Cannock