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My nan and grandad were Barking people, my nan was born on a fishing smack moored in the quay at barge aground area of town. My grandad was a hero of the battle of Jutland. My uncle Tig lived and died in Barking so did many of my ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1952 by Bob Warren

I remember Dreamland because I used to hang out with Derek and Brian Brenner whose father manufactured and ran racing machines there. You would sit in front of a sloping board and roll balls through holes in order to ...Read more

A memory of Kingsgate in 1959 by John Waite

At 17 years of age, after interviews at British Railways commercial HQ at Cymric Buildings in Cardiff, I started work as a Booking Clerk at Senghennydd Station, replacing David Sellick who lived overlooking the station ...Read more

A memory of Senghenydd in 1955 by Arthur Davies

My sister and I lived for a short while at a place called Portrac Camp between 1949-1953/54. We think we were living with our father, Richard Denis Stephenson and our mother Winifred, (formerly Mansell) (both deseased in ...Read more

A memory of Darlington by Helen Whitty

My grandfather James McCormack was brought up at this address and I am trying to find where exactly this is. He was a North Motherwell man; can anyone can point me in the right direction? I think it might be Jerviston in Motherwell but not sure.

A memory of Motherwell in 1930 by Michael Mc Cormack

I remember Tommy Johnson who used to be our Scout Master and I spent many happy times when the troop went camping all over the country. I moved from Pittington to Sherburn Hill aged 2 in 1939 to 6 North View where I lived ...Read more

A memory of Sherburn Hill in 1948 by Cecil Pritchard

In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more

A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by John S. Batts

Not so sure of the date, I was born in the cottage hospital in 1936 and spent all my holidays with my grandparents the Brockbanks who had a pub in North Lane called the Heroes of Lucknow. I had many trips to the Lido with my brother, we ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1947 by Anne Vines

Mr and Mrs George Cleave's house, on the left in white... used to give me sixpence when I collected clotted cream for my auntie May Alice and uncle, and Ernie Jeffery! Such a lovely man, high up in the military...related to Mr and Mrs Parker, North Close.... Susan Greenway (nee Barratt).

A memory of Kilkhampton in 1962

Started in the 2nd year when Mr Moore started as headteacher. Was put into 2A and managed to stay in the A's although maths always eluded me! Went on a trip to Interlaken in 1961. Still friends with Sue Such (now Cole). Lived in Worcester Park/North Cheam.

A memory of Stoneleigh by Yvonne Turner