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Tosh and I and easy pickings Hi everyone, It's me again with the continuation of my wee story. I was taken by surprise how many people liked and responded to the ...Read more

A memory of Newarthill by Peter Laird

This is a lovely historic photograph showing the backs of the houses in Herbert Avenue in Pontymister. The Avenue was built roughly between 1922 and 1932. Herbert Avenue is now to be found under postcodes NP11 6JS AND ...Read more

A memory of Pontymister

My family moved to Lancing when I was six months old, living first in Orchard Avenue and then Tower Road, which had a bad reputation - totally undeserved! I liked the fact that there were always children to play with, ...Read more

A memory of Lancing by Avril Boyd

I was born in 1950 at Orsett Hospital, a few minutes before my twin sister and on my mothers birthday no less. We lived at 28 St James Avenue East until 1968. The house was in fact that of my maternal grand parents and my ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by Chris Doggett

I remember playing golf in St Chads park, it had a 18 hole, well kept course. There was a paddling pool, were I sometimes sailed my model boat. I also remember the Council run playleader scheme, were you could borrow sports ...Read more

A memory of Chadwell Heath by peterphelps06

I don't suppose that many of my friends will have watched the last Coronation on TV, partly because it was 70 years ago, but mainly because very few people had a television. My father, Frank, had a Radio and ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow by Howard Hill Lines

I was a "Calder girl" from 1951 or 52 to 1959. I didn't like it much at the time, but now of course, I have many, many memories. I know so many of the hymns in the English hymn book because we had to learn them for punishments. Not ...Read more

A memory of Seascale by Frances Ellis Nee Birkbeck

I'd like to reply to Shirley who recalled all those wonderful times around George Road and Dale Road Selly Oak in the 50s. I lived at 72 North Road. The Carpenters family you mentioned were my relatives. I went ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak by Mick Carson

I started at Harold hill in September 1966 as An apprentice electrical fitter. My lodgings were in Clock house Lane and I went to college at Hornchurch where I spent many a happy hour in the ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Ricyard Luxford

I was three years old when I went to Charnwood Forest for four weeks to convalesce in late spring 1949. I was recovering from pleurisy and pneumonia. My parents didn't have a car so I was ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves