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Lived at No. 99, house backed onto school. Earliest memory of Miss Bjork as headteacher. Remember Sainsburys in high street which became Woolworths. Edward Adams, Tudor Library and Buckinghams. Drove through Selsdon recently. Not the same ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by markgregorian2003

I was born in Aldershot in June 1946. I believe the event was at the General Hospital at the top end of St.Georges Road. For the first year or so I lived with my parents and older brother at the bottom end of Victoria Road. We ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by geoffroberts994

The swimming pool someone asked was next to the Canch and I think the other side of the memorial garden. and across from The Priory. . I was born and grew up in Worksop and my father was a dentist on Newcastle street. My parents built the house which was also the surgery when I was young.

A memory of Worksop by chrisdeboer36

I am looking for any information about my grandparents. I recently found out that my Mum, Patricia was adopted by my grandad, and there is no father's name on her birth certificate, only my nana's, Sarah Gorman ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by clairelgreen15

Hello I am putting together a history of Cook/Cooke Street, Salford as a member of the Salford Archaeology and History Society, where the Threlfalls Brewery was situated. I have looked at old maps which show ...Read more

A memory of Salford by peachimid

I think to reminisce is great. At 76, I find myself doing this quite often and am drawn back to Shaw, and to High Crompton, where I was born. The house I was born in on Rochdale Road, near the Bull's Head Pub, is still ...Read more

A memory of Shaw by harmonicajoe

Does anyone remember Rene Donnelly's Sweet Shop on the corner of Wilton Street & Bradford Road? I remember buying Smith's Crisps with the little blue packet of salt. There was a sign in the shop that read "Please don't ask ...Read more

A memory of Batley by marg.gpl

I was born at the Ravensbourne Nursing Home , opposite All Saints Church in 1943. At that time my father was in the army and my mother and I lived with my grandparents in Henry Street, my oldest aunt lived next door. My ...Read more

A memory of Gosforth by bunz

My Twin sister Georgina and I (Catherine) would run up from No77 East Street once a week to spend our pocket money at Bennetts,we used to get halfpenny chews they were called Black Jacks and were liquorice( they used to make our ...Read more

A memory of Wareham by catherinesevans

hi diane i too lived around duchess street & began my working life at 87 duchess st the butchers & greengrocers owned by geof n kath garlick around 1974ish i also remember we would go digging for antique bottles at the back of the shop,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,HAPPY DAYS

A memory of Shaw by ian1958freeman