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This was the school I went to from 1963 until I left school in 1967. I have many fond memories of getting into trouble with a little help from friends. Mary and Wendy were two of my closest friends. My name back then was Edith ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1963 by Edith Camp

I came across this interesting page whilst looking for an old photo of Gowkshill for my Dad's funeral order of service. Dad, Billy Kane, lived at 2 the Crescent with his parents. When he married we stayed in Arniston, 43 Barleyknowe ...Read more

A memory of Gowkshill by Mary Kane

I lived in Salisbury Avenue and once at St John's Green Junior School this was my route home. Playing on the walls of the assault course, amongst other escapades. Unfortunately, when I was back there in 2012 it was a building site. ...Read more

A memory of Colchester in 1952 by David Adams

My grandparents lived at Norburn Drive and I spent many a school holiday there. I remember the huge back garden and my grandad growing runner beans and cucumbers. Would love to know how the house looks now.

A memory of Killamarsh by Carol Smith

I'm researching my dad's family.... the New Bolsover Colliery opening 1898 where my grandad Walter Lunn moved from Bourne to Bolsover.. and I have been led to Cawthorne as his father James Lunn was born in 1807...Well that was a tiny ...Read more

A memory of Cawthorpe by Christine Evans

My mother, Vera Brown, was born in Wooburn Green and lived at 135 Boundary Road until she came to America to marry my father after WWII. (My father was based in High Wycombe during the war.) As my gran and ...Read more

A memory of Wooburn Green in 1965 by Valerie Killigrew

I was born in the July of 1952,to my parents Frank and Bette Coxon. We lived above a butchers shop, on the corner of the Wednesfield Road and Heath street - the shop belonged to Mr Sammy Hall. My father worked as a butcher at Downs of ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town in 1952 by Antrhony Coxon

My grandparents, George and Clarinda Meakin lived in Vernon Avenue, I visited regularly. Grandad put up a ladder at their back wall so I could climb over into the park. My mum was their eldest daughter; she had two brothers and ...Read more

A memory of Old Basford by Joyce White

My grandmother used to live in a house called The Brambles in Church Street, as a young girl during the 1920`s when she was about 8 or 9. The family name was Abel- relating to Bobby Abel the famous cricketer. My great ...Read more

A memory of Crondall in 1920 by Sally Price

In the late thirties, my mother worked as a dispatcher in Stuarts Bakery in Church Street just down from the junction with Randolph Street. This building has been closed down now for many years. In the ...Read more

A memory of Buckhaven in 1950 by David Gillies