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This is about Christmas Day 57 years ago, and how things have changed. Even though we had nowt it was still a very exciting time, as it is now, but money was tight and we could only have the presents that each family could afford. What I ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

The old St James Barton area of the city was demolished in the late 1950s to make way for Bond Street and the bus station. The rebuilding of the city started almost as soon as the Second World War had ended. ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

My grandmother lived in Little Comberton, I used to visit her when we lived in Clevedon. When I was 11 in 1967 I spent 6 months with my Ggrandmother before my parents, my brother and myself emigrated to ...Read more

A memory of Little Comberton in 1967

I was born on Shotford Heath in 1952, what a place to be brought up. My earliest memories are of gathering hogweed for the 100-odd rabbits that we used to have, and the hard winters, snow and heavy frosts, when ...Read more

A memory of Weybread in 1952 by David Keeble

1946 was a very bad winter, we were snowed in for weeks.The promised Christmas pantomime visit to the Theatre Royal in Exeter never materialised. It always seemed to happen like that in those days. ...Read more

A memory of Shillingford St George in 1946 by Rosemary Morris

My uncle John Cooke owned the gravel pit mentioned along with the brush factory. We lived in Staplehall Road and used to go across Farmer Howard's field to the pits and go on the very same beach. In the winter my brother ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1950 by Roger Clarke

Used to live over the cafe, then downstairs when it was closed and made into a flat; the younger two of our four sons were born there (one upstairs and one downstairs!). our two eldest boys went to the village school, and ...Read more

A memory of Beadnell in 1962 by Derek Bee

So sorry, I do not have any photos of Collyhurst, I went to school there but actually lived in Miles Platting, The Ram on Oldhan Road. My school memories of Collyhurst are of St. James Primary School, the most special of ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by Janet Ellam

My Memories of Lifton. I was born in 1946 lived in Lifton until I got married in 1971. I lived in Fore Street, next door lived Mr Brown, he used to repair shoes in his little shed in the garden and I used to watch him working. ...Read more

A memory of Lifton in 1960 by Brian Keighley

Does anyone remember my mother who was born in 1932 so I expect went to this college 1943 on? She used to relate stories of great hardship (!) And being made to swim in the sea in winter!

A memory of Cliftonville by Sarah Nayar