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My memories of the village are so precious that I wished it to be preserved intact with no alterations whatsoever, which of course was ridiculous. The main change is the size. When I was a child, in the '40's and 50's, ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong in 1950 by Dorothy Blake

During the war years in 1940, we moved from Doncaster to Rossington. My father worked on the railway and felt we would be safer in the country. We lived at 254 Gatehouse Crossing and later in 1948, at 383 Gatehouse, Bessacarr. ...Read more

A memory of Finningley in 1940 by Beryl Goforth

My mother is Olwen Jones (nee Haigh) of the old post office in Bodorgan from 1937 to 1953 when she got married to Vivian Madoc Jones of Newborough. Her parents Randolph and Janet Haigh ran the post office from 1937 ...Read more

A memory of Bodorgan by Alison Scott

My mum (Win) worked in Parsons the hardware shop and also the grocers. I remember helping out a couple of times with grocery deliveries by riding the big black bicycle with a large basket on the front which was stacked with cardboard ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1961 by Patricia Barber

I could not think of a better place to spend my early years than overlooking the old reservoir. My grandmother's timber cottage was one of eight built long ago, probably to house estate workers. Each cottage appeared ...Read more

A memory of Elstree by John Gates

The gas lamps in Station Road, Kilbirnie, were the responsibility of staff on duty at the High Station. This line went right through to Glasgow Central Station and of course it was the age of steam. Sanny Dillon ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie in 1955 by John Allan

So far as I know never was called Oxford Street its always been called Oxford road. My grandfather also Frank, met my grandmother, Dora, when they both worked for Macilroys before the Great War. I believe Macilroys was the large ...Read more

A memory of Reading by Frank Waddom Brown

I can remember going to the shop almost everyday (I was born in 1967) with my mother, Gillian Boyland (nee Channon). I used to sit on the steps opposite where a lady by the name of Mrs Gill used to live. Mrs Marsh was the ...Read more

A memory of West Monkton in 1967 by Kate Reed (Nee;Boyland)

I moved to Westward Ho! in 1952 with my parents and two sisters. My parents owned a guest house call Beacon Lights in Nelson Road, sadly it has now been demolished to make way for flats. I remember the floods at Lynmouth in ...Read more

A memory of Westward Ho! in 1952 by Jennie Smeath

After we were bombed out in London my parents bought a house in Romford, Essex. My father was working for the Ford Motor Company that had converted its assembly lines to manufacture Bren gun carriers and other war time vehicles. ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1940 by Ray Tricker