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My earliest recollection was sitting waiting for Santa on the staircase in my granny's house watching the glistening Christmas tree. Also sledging down the bank from Tantobie Road ends down to Sleepy Valley with my ...Read more

A memory of Tantobie in 1958 by Jennifer Cain

The road you see, scarring the middle left of the picture, is known as Bow Road. Apparently there was a farm at the top of this road known as Bow Farm. The housing estate that was subsequently built in the post war years after 1945, ...Read more

A memory of Greenock by Hugh Gurney

An update to my earlier post where I say my mum and dad live in a tenament building with an outdoor toilet shared with two other famillies, I saw that same house up for sale recently £850,000!!!!

A memory of South Ockendon in 1960 by Glenn Spicer

My gggg grandfather Hamilton or James Biggar born in mid 1700s married to Marion McKie. I am looking for any info on the Biggars who lived in Lochrutton. Dumfriesshire around that time, Their son William b 1798 in Lochrutton d ...Read more

A memory of Lochrutton Loch in 1870 by Derek William Biggar Dickson

My name is Sam Burrow I was born in Hartland in 1936 - the family moved to Clovelly in 1939 and lived in Home Lodge. My father, J A Burrow, was the estate foreman. My mother, Florrie, was the school cook throughout ...Read more

A memory of Clovelly in 1949 by Sam Burrow

Moved due to circumstances to Douglas West from Lanark to a two roomed terraced miners cottage without a bathroom. The small kitchen had a toilet off it, the living room still had the bed recesses and there was a ...Read more

A memory of Douglas West in 1968 by Susan Gilbert Nee Mead

My aunt and uncle, Christine and Alan Benning, have lived in Little Marlow all of their married lives. As children (and as adults) we visited our close cousins and aunt and uncle since we were born. The ...Read more

A memory of Little Marlow

'The Stream' ! We always have called it 'the brook' - Broughton Brook, and still do. However, the brook is in fact a tributary to the River Soar, it may in fact actually be the River Soar but simply not ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by Reuben Reynolds

This picture is taken from the roundabout at the junction of Moorside road and Woodsend Road. The Shopping Centre featured on another of these photographs is behind the photographer and to the right, about 150m away. The shop just ...Read more

A memory of Flixton in 1965 by Roger Hare

My memory goes back to 1945, my surname was Virgo and I lived in Cluster Cottage next to the brook. I remember standing by the brook with my cat in my arms; I must have been about 4 years old. A man took a photo of the ...Read more

A memory of Blakeney in 1945 by Rosemary Fortnum