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I attended this school 1974 to 1977, doesn't seem to have changed much, that's how I remember it. Can't say that I enjoyed school when I was there (spent many a time wagging). But looking back now, yes they were the good old ...Read more

A memory of South Kirkby in 1974 by Jan Pearson/Sanders

The memory of that quaint old village reminds me when we lived there in the 1950s, in the small white cottage called (Welsh sounding) Te Revil, or Te Effiel. I was two years old, a twin with my sister Carol, the local children took us ...Read more

A memory of Llwyngwril in 1950 by Richard Lowe

My paternal grandparents came from Evesham, they moved to Birmingham in the 1930s I think, but we still had relatives still living in Evesham. On a Sunday we would go and see my grand auntie Lott and my second cousin Patricia and her husband ...Read more

A memory of Evesham by Elizabeth Ballard

I remember good times even though I hated it first day, we had loads to do, virtually every sport you can think of and the camping trips were amazing. The trips to watch the spooth film airplane had me in ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1979 by Anthony Archer

I first went to Sheepwash in the summer of 1945 with my parents and girl friend. I was 15 at the time. We stayed at the Half Moon Hotel for two weeks. Because it was towards the end of WWII my father ...Read more

A memory of Sheepwash in 1944 by Sheila Bartlett

As a young child, these were good days, we had very little but so did everybody else, Mum had a few chickens, and we lived in a little house on stilts, brick piers, my Dad was working for the Thames Valley, and when the floods ...Read more

A memory of Purley on Thames in 1954 by Micbhae,]]] Michael

I do not have any memories of Manaccan, but my gt gt grandmother Mary Glasson was living there when she married my gt gt grandfather in 1825. Sadly I have not been able to trace her parents or their origins. Mary died in 1844 from a ...Read more

A memory of Manaccan by Lillian Bradley

I went to the sea training school in September to November 1959. It was tough but you had to do it to have a chance to go to sea after it. I remember the food was awful, especially the scouse we had once a week, but I ...Read more

A memory of Sharpness in 1959 by William Westwood

I was born in Ilford in 1928, I now live in Australia, came here in 1948 so my memories are of that time. This picture is of where we used to shop every week. We lived in Dunedin Road.  Is the railway close by? I was in the Gaumont Super ...Read more

A memory of Ilford in 1940 by Flora Gully

My first memory is of sheep on the hillside leading up to my grandmother's house, and of a curtain hanging in front of the front door to protect it from the sun. As I was only about four years old at the time that is all for that ...Read more

A memory of Nant-y-moel in 1944 by Russell Evan Morgan Thomas