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I once worked in a Cottage Hospital, situated on the edge of Savernake Forest in the West Country. The hospital doctors were also the local General Practitioners. The wards ...Read more

A memory of Savernake Forest in 1967 by Mrs H. L Sharpe

I was born in 1941. I lived in John Street, and hold fond memories of where I grew up, childhood friends were Alan Wilkinson, Maurice White, Jimmy Best, Glines Carr. Went to Blaydon West Boys School. Left Blaydon in 1953 to live in Devon. ...Read more

A memory of Blaydon by Howard Anderson

During the Second World War I lived in Beach Road in a flat on the premises of Lewis's factory. My father was the manager there. The factory usually made men's clothing for the Lewis's stores but during the war it made army uniforms. It ...Read more

A memory of Litherland in 1940 by Joan Rothwell

Born 1937 in Swan Cottage (demolished for road widening), one of four children, father farm worker for the Jeffrey family. Then moved to Port Ledge where father moved to work and lived in a cottage near a big house about ...Read more

A memory of Fairy Cross by Michael Curtice

Back in the 1960s my sister used to take her dolls to the dolls' hospital to get them fixed, they also mended teddy' bears but my best memory of the dolls' hospital was that they used to have a Jonny 7 machine gun set up in the window, it ...Read more

A memory of Guildford by Allen Nicol

My family name was Stebbing, Jennifer, Carol and Sue, and l lived down Beldham Road council estate until my father Robert won the football pools, then he bought a house in Northwood in Middlesex. He was a bus driver and before that ...Read more

A memory of Wrecclesham in 1959 by Bob Warren

I grew up in Rhos on Sea and remember very clearly the group of shops in this photo. I was sent regulary to Reynolds Hairdressers for a "Short Back & Sides" and as a small child sat on a plank of wood which rested on the arms of ...Read more

A memory of Rhos in 1965

I suppose, years ago, there was a Bedford market without old Ben. Can’t have been much of a market though. Anyway, as long as I, or everybody else I've asked can remember, old Ben has been down the market on Saturdays. Maybe he worked ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1972 by Brian Walker

I was delighted to hear (and see) that I was not the only person who remembers the Club House. It would seem that one or two of us lived on the estate (I lived in Coleridge Road) and a comment regarding the primary school ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe in 1956 by Roger Steer

I lived in Harold hill, from 1956 till 1970. We lived in Chudleigh Rd - Mum, Dad, and my sister Susan. I attended Dycourts, then went to Quarles - what memories of Miss Knapton and her dog, Pickles, who she would often ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1962 by May Law