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This is the Church that Father Daniel Cronin worked long and hard to have built. From being very young, I can remember the fund raising that went on to build a new Catholic Church to serve the ever growing numbers arriving in Corby. We ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Moira Jones

I was born in September 1939 just after WW2 had started...My parents who had their house in Waldridge Road decided to move into West Lane to be near my Grandparents while my Dad who was in a reserved occupation was ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street by maps4

We moved to Hertford Road in 1971, I was 3 years old. I remember playing in our overgrown garden which backed on to the Burges road playing fields soon after we moved in. There used to be a horrendous smell from the ...Read more

A memory of Barking by abridgeboy

Pontefract a place I call home, my early years were spent Carleton Home's, it would be 58 years before I saw my real Mum Minne Martin from Castleford. from off the West wood Est. in Cutsyke. I was adopted ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract by michaelscorgie7

I obviously don't remember the common in 1911, but I did live in Old Common Road number 15 from about 1943 until 1955. Where the children are sitting was The Common, and a herd of Fresion cows were often grazed there. Old Common Road ran ...Read more

A memory of Cobham by trevor.cole

I remember once a year (c1961) a man used to ride on horseback from Rochdale to Norden dressed as John Wesley (or his brother?) and he used to go up to Bank House Farm where there was the original pulpit from when one of the ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale by Jane Heywood Fennell

I am Jeannette McNicol (nee Elliott). My brother John and I moved there with my parents ,when I was 13 years old and he was 12. I had found the house when we were having a picnic ...Read more

A memory of Buckland in the Moor by jenner

My family lived on Mountview Road N8, from 1959 until 1971. We were blessed with a ground floor flat with cellar, in an old Victorian House at ,No. 35. We were opposite the reservoir, so had a ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End by kb

I remember getting pregnant in early 1966 I was living and working in London I had a one night stand with a famous person out of a famous band he went back to America and said he would send for me but never did. I ended up ...Read more

A memory of Harrow on the Hill by carolewilson194

My mother and I were evacuated to Dacre Banks in 1941 when I was only 1 year old. We stayed until I was 4 and my first memories are at Dacre Banks. We lived on a farm just outside the village, where we had to walk up to the ...Read more

A memory of Dacre Banks by jomangina