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I attended Shirley Baptist Church from around 1962 until about 1968.  I was about 11 when I started and 17 when I left to go to Yardley Wood Baptist Church. I found the church services boring and dull but I joined ...Read more

A memory of Shirley in 1962 by jc

We came to Marske in August 1948 having just demobbed from the Army 9 weeks earlier, we purchased a shop at 221 High St selling groceries, rations, ice cream etc. Our daughter was just 5 weeks old and was ...Read more

A memory of Marske-By-The-Sea in 1950 by Trevor Williams

I was born here in 1949, then both my children. The first in 1967 and the next in 1971. The maternity unit was around to the left in a seperate building. They were very strict about visiting times etc. The staff were great ...Read more

A memory of Taplow in 1967 by Terry Herring

I, at the tender age of fourteen, arrived in Croglin on November the 5th, 1954. It was 'Bonfire Night' and as strangers in the village I did not know a single soul. However the bonfire for the celebrations had been situated in the ...Read more

A memory of Croglin in 1954 by Walter Moscrop

There are several dating features on both this print and subsequent ones and inspection of the church today that suggest that the photograph is probably correctly dated at 1888.  The pews shown were ...Read more

A memory of Canterbury in 1880 by Marten Rogers

First a little bit of history. There is a double cottage on Thurgoland Bank overlooking Cheesebottom, it was built by my Great Grandfather John Tufft around 1880. He was a Shingler at Wortley Lower Forge, having moved ...Read more

A memory of Thurgoland in 1957 by Roger Tufft

During the second world war when I was about three years old my parents thought it would be safer for me to leave London and live with my mother's parents in Bedlinog. We lived in the High Street and I have such happy ...Read more

A memory of Bedlinog in 1940 by Margo Smith

Yvonne Colwell's notes brought back memories of a few families, but I can't place St John's Lane, even though I lived in Pantycelyn until I moved in the late sixties after the prefabs were demolished. Both my parents are now ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Ray Davies

I only found out today that my Grt:Grt:Grandfather,Owen Lloyd, lived in one or indeed both of these places. The house was called Ty-mawr. (The Big House). Does anyone have any information about these places? My Grt: Grt: ...Read more

A memory of Llanynys in 1870 by Norma Genys

I moved away from Woodford Green many years ago and have lived in various places since, but I still recognise Woodford Green as my home town. I have 3 vivid memories of my time living with my gran just off the green ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1944 by Geoff Duff