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I remember North Stoneham Church from a favourite walk my family and I used to take of a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. We set out from Kelvin Road and made our way towards Stoneham Lane with the blacksmith's shop on the ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1947 by Anthony Lawford

I lived at what is now Old County View at Hett Hills from 1959 to 1963. My sister and her husband - Sam Wears, had a house built in the garden next door to us. There was a square of about 6 houses behind us which were demolished around ...Read more

A memory of Hett Hills in 1959 by John Crawford

The girls at home through the day or at Ma Petries at night and they were all ladies, Vera, Mavis, Dot, Norma, Iris, Pat . A couple of years later I was a member of the cricket team which won the N C B knock out ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park by David Leckenby

I was born at 32 Pisgah Road which was the bottom end cottage of a row of three opposite Pisgah Chapel. The cottages had no back entrances. There was a pathway running in front of the three cottages with an outside toilet opposite ...Read more

A memory of Talywain in 1945 by Brian Smith

My mum was born in Gilfach Goch (Red Nook) in 1930. Her mother was born Catherine Ann Leyshon and her father Reginald Bernard Assinder, which changed over the years to Assender. My grandmother passed away in 1943 ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1930 by Catherine Capener

I was born in Marshall St, Old Monklands. I remember playing in the Glen and having to cross a very busy road to get there.West End park was one of my favorite haunts. Iwent to St Josephs Primary school (I think it was ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge in 1953 by Eleanor Carlin

My mother Jean was born in Greenock in 1916. She married an Englishman and I was born in England in 1941 but spent my holidays with my grandparents, aunts and cousins in Greenock. My grandparents lived in an old tenement in Weir ...Read more

A memory of Greenock in 1940 by Judy Macdonald

I grew up in Combs Ford, off Poplar Hill. Our Primary school is now a community centre. Back then, all our pocket money was spent in the Paper shop!! There was a large recreation ground (it's now been covered in houses) ...Read more

A memory of Combs by Karen Dack

Hi, I was born and brought up in Dipton, I lived in Annfield Street with my dad, Tom Bell, and my nanna, Maria Bell. I went to St Patricks RC School and have good memories of my time there with a few of the teachers being nuns. My ...Read more

A memory of Dipton in 1956 by Alice Bell

We lived at 'Pantiles', Penhurst Rd, Bedhampton from approx the mid fifties until the mid sixties. I went first to the Priory school on Hayling Island, when Miss Rapley was Head teacher, until a Mr Neilsen-Carrigan took over ...Read more

A memory of Bedhampton in 1956