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I was brought in council flats overlooking Wimbledon train depot and Gap Road Cemetery. It was grim but being young we saw the paved area in the "front" of the flats as a football stadium and cricket field in the ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon

My family and I used to spend our holidays at Point Clear almost every year during the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, and often met the same families each time we went down there. I remember ...Read more

A memory of St Osyth in 1956 by Robert Munn

My name was Mackin when I lived in Great Haywood in the 197'0s. We lived in Elm Close for over 5years. When I began to look through the photographs in the Frith Collection and saw the one above, it brought back memories that the ...Read more

A memory of Great Haywood in 1970 by Valerie Johnson

I remember spending the first twelve years of my life in Haltwick, we lived in Sunnny Side Cottage, my brother and I would go down past the pub to get water from the well and we would play in the woods and fields. We moved to Dane End when ...Read more

A memory of Dane End in 1946 by Pete Young

Born in 7 George Street, in 1963. So many great, wonderful memories of Caerau. Mort`s the fish shop. Tom the Barber. Wendels.Station Cafe. Library, Monkey Hotel. Con club, where every year during the summer they would run ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1970 by Peter Whittaker

I remember playing in the streets when there was back to back houses before they knocked them down. I moved just before then, as far as I know I've still got relatives in Glapwell. I am related to the Blueits Blewits who lived there .

A memory of Doe Lea by David Bramwell

I too was born at Bredbury in 1951 and attended Barrack Hill Primary School from 1957-1962. then went on to Highfield. I have a good memory of those early days and recall teachers such as ( juniors) Mrs.Ridley. Mrs. Lambert, Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Bredbury in 1957 by John Mann

My Great Grandfather was Edward Ashton, he was born at Kirkby House in Harrington Hafleet, Lincolnshire in 1850. In transcribing his son's memoirs he talks about moving back to Louth about 1889 when his father gave up ...Read more

A memory of Louth in 1890 by Bruce Gordon

Born in Mill Lane in Broughton Astley on 3rd May 1926, I started school at B/Astley C of Primary in 1931 as a five year old. We would be 'called to school' by the ringing of the bell housed in the ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by Reuben Reynolds

I was born on High Street in Treorchy in 1959 in the house that belonged to my grandparents and that my mother still lives in today! We moved to Stafford in 1962 for work for my Dad but came to visit Treorchy a few times a year. I ...Read more

A memory of Treorchy in 1969 by Ellen Lockley