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My grandma's unmarried brother and sisters lived in Knott End. Me and my many cousins - all post-war boom babies - would spend many days there in summer. The biggest buzz of all was when the 'Wyresdale' was operating. How I loved ...Read more

A memory of Fleetwood by Paul Blackwell

Not exact on the dates but went to Lowestoft from Norwich on the steam train for our annual day out by the seaside. We saw the Punch & Judy, watched the men fish off the quay and went to the Kensington gardens (?) for a ride on the ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft in 1954 by Gerald Wase

I was born in Leicester in 1958 and shortly afterwards my dad and nana bought a caravan that was sited at Mr Metcalfe's site on Brick Lane. Our caravan was called Niaroo and was sited next to an apple tree. We ...Read more

A memory of East Runton by Carole Smith

I lived in Temple Fortune about a mile north of Golders Green up the Finchley Road, along which passed buses and trolleybuses going up to Finchley and Barnet, and south to Baker Street, Trafalgar Square and London. In the 1940s ...Read more

A memory of Golders Green in 1953 by R Stonhold

I first saw Littlehampton when my primary school made an end-of-year trip in 1963, and my memories were dominated by the figure-of-eight dodgems at the amusement centre, and some intrepid soul getting stuck in the river (God ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton by Tony Gorton

My first introduction to Fairbourne I think was in 1953 (the same week that we heard that Everest had been conquered and the Coronation). As a child resident of St Christopher's Railway Orphanage in Derby, we went camping for the first time ...Read more

A memory of Fairbourne by Peter Studden

As a young lad we visited the Constitutional Holiday Camp for a number of years, as far as I can remember I went with my parents from about 1949 to 1955. At that time my parents were living in East London which even ...Read more

A memory of Hopton on Sea in 1940 by John Allen

YEAR 1953 The steam train was known as the Dilly, it would haul trucks with shale etc from Throckley to Lemington on a single track to where the pit heap was, the trucks would go into a shed one at a time and a huge barrel type thing ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

This is about 1951 and Millfield Lane was opposite the allotments and the clay field. On the dark nights we would tie thread to the door knockers and lead it across the road and up the bank to a grassy hollow where we could see but ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1951 by Jimmy Burrows

It was about 1957 and before, when the Willows was a place to picnic on a Saturday and Sunday afternoons. It was a very popular place, with the Shuggy boats and the river to play in, and there were houseboats galore ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1957 by Jimmy Burrows