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Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

I was not born when the photo was taken in 1906 but I do well remember our weekly shopping trips to the Watford market just after world war two. There would always be time to visit the top end of the high street to admire ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1946 by Leon Moore

I lived in Arreton from birth until my marriage.  My family consisted of Dad and Mum, my sister Gill, my paternal grandparents and a retired infant teacher Miss Muskett. She taught me at home before I began school at the village ...Read more

A memory of Arreton in 1940 by Pat Phillips

We lived opposite Barham Park. Great place for playing, catching newts in the pond, throwing "bangers" at the park keepers. Remember watching Wembley FC at Vale Farm and swimming in the open air pool. Art ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by John Marsden

As I was brought up in Menith Wood from the late fifties until the early sixties I attended Pensax School where Miss Jones and Mrs Attwood were our teachers for every lesson. I remember some of my school friends like ...Read more

A memory of Pensax by Derek Hall

I left East Ham behind around 1983 for Essex, my mother and father told me we were moving because East Ham was changing, becoming dirty and run down, I was devastated. Recently I have met up with old class mates ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1983

My father moved to Cold Meece in 1960 to take up his job as a prison officer at the nearby Drake Hall open prison, and we stayed there for a couple of years before we moved to live at the prison itself. At the time I was between 9 ...Read more

A memory of Coldmeece in 1962 by John Grehan

My sister Kathleen Taylor (former name) was cook in the kitchen for the retired old ladies. I was always staying with her during school holidays. Her husband then (now deceased) was Barry Taylor and they had two children, Sarah born ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1970 by Stuart Mitchell

It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the  streets ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by Dave Southern

Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Andrew Evans