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been trying to pin down Mick Jackman pianist and surfboard shaper, I met Mickey in newquay when he made my surfboard and he also played in the tall trees club along the front, Met him again at his parents home in ...Read more

A memory of Mawgan Porth in 1966 by Frank Power

I went to this school from 1954-1957 ish. My elder sister attended too. I did not enjoy anything, at the school, even less the two weeks spent as a border when my parents went on holiday. There was one nun ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1954

The Old manor had a legend that highwayman Dick Turpin made an escape by taking the cellar tunnel under Church Road to the Hind's Head (the white building). At Sandy Lane Infants School, my friend Andrew ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell in 1930 by Keith Bennett

Shute was a very strict English boarding school, which we were told was once the home of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for nine days, at which time she was beheaded. The long standing rumor was that on a full moon, ...Read more

A memory of Shute

i was born in kidsgrove in 1958 at 42 gloucester rd my name is tony villella. i remember red rock,was very hard to climb and the black hills and the old tower.does any body remember the broken down church behind st johns,the grave yard ...Read more

A memory of Talke in 1970 by Anthony Villella

This half burnt out mansion and wonderful Japanese garden holds very special memories for me.Although it had notices saying it was private and to keep out,not to mention trespassers would be prosecuted,I ...Read more

A memory of Harrow on the Hill in 1966 by Pauline Coles

I was born at 109 nether street , a great place for a kid to grow up , the castle , ravenscraig park hill 60 The old grave yard , we were never bored as kids ,why would we be with all that on our door step .We moved to wright ...Read more

A memory of Kirkcaldy in 1950 by Peter Lees

My Father Frank Garrett was stationed, very early in the Second World War, in an Army Camp in the Treacle Bolly area, west of Malborough. As a Butcher by trade he was a, or maybe the ‘Mess’ Butcher for a field Mess, I think, in the ...Read more

A memory of Malborough in 1940

I was living opposite the school, so when i first started i was four and a half, i se to go home on the break for my milk and biscuits. I remember Mr Cox and Mr Threpleton very well as i do Mrs Hill, she was the ...Read more

A memory of Lower Town in 1953 by Ian Drury

hello to all . my name is denis Archibald steel ,I was born in 1940 at 365 Cumberland street gorbals. when I was 4yrs old my granny who was looking after me ,fell from the kitchen sink and broke her leg .she was carted of to hospital .as ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1944 by Denis Steel