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My story starts on the 1st of March 1950, the date of my birth at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.  My parents Jack & Mary Flather lived in Old Rossington at 65 Haigh Crescent, living with relatives (Guy) ...Read more

A memory of New Rossington in 1950 by Sandra Faulkner

Does anyone remember being in the school choir when we recorded 'And The Glory of the Lord' in St Stephens Church? Harvey M played the organ [complete with deliberate mistake] and we were recorded on an enormous wax disc. We could buy ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1952 by Ann Brace

I was born and brought up in Newbiggin by the Sea, till I left for Scotland  in 1998. All my family is buried in St Bartholomews', Taylors, Clark, Arkle, Dunn, Peel, Maughan, just to mention a few. My granda was called Jimmy ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin in 1956 by Janice Glendinning Nee Peel

My grandmother lived in Steventon with her own grandmother around 1880. She was Florence Prior and her own gran was Eliza Prior who by then was a widow and a laundress living in Timsbury Cottage. I have tried to find ...Read more

A memory of Steventon in 1880 by John Howard Norfolk

I am Rosemary Harris (now Davies) and I was born in Livingstone Road in 1943 and was christened at St Stephen’s Church. I attended Hounslow Town Infants and Juniors and then Bulstrode Girls School from 1955-1960, ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Rosemary Davies

I was born at 15 Currie Street in a modern prefab which had electric lights when most other houses still only had gas. We had an inside toilet and bathroom luxuries that others could only dream of then. At one end of Currie Street ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1957 by Michael Box

I attended Embleton Infants School and Embleton Junior Mixed School which were structurally attached but otherwise separate from September 1957 until July 1963. At that time the staff were very respectable and I ...Read more

A memory of Southmead in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

I lived in Langdale Road and became head choirboy at St Stephens. Have fond memories of many parts of Croydon. Does anyone know of what became of Coral Parkin in Beverstone Road. She and I met at the youth ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1945 by Michael Baker

I was born and lived in Hengist Road opposite Collindale Ave near Brook Street and the Rec as we called it, I'm Tony Messum and I shared with my Brother Michael, and Sister Patricia and my buddies were ...Read more

A memory of Northumberland Heath by thekentishman

Serendipity finding this site. Unfortunately I do not remember Alan cooper but we must have been contemporaries. Like you Alan I started my education at St Hilda's in 1949. However I continued it at ...Read more

A memory of Walton on the Hill by John Grevatt