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The fields along Hospital Lane were for St Michael’s School in Leeds, next to the boys Grammar School - the boys had to get the bus up and change in the old stables! Allan Bennetts family lived in the corner shop ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge

I was very young to have seen the gardens in Middleton but they were well loved and a great place place to take a quiet moment watching the fountain. No one seems to know where the fountain is but rumour has it, it was dumped in the ...Read more

A memory of Middleton by Anne Dodds

From 1964 I occasionally took the No. 691 bus from Ilford to Barkingside to shop. I used to buy my toddler son a Matchbox car from a toy shop. He didn't talk a lot but within a couple of years he could name most of the cars on the road and ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside by Carol O'shea

Well, fancy that, that's awakened some memory cells! Until the age of 11 years I was raised in a poorer housing area of Belgrave, Leicester, which was all the housing that was available after the War in ...Read more

A memory of Leicester

Yes, I have been to Southport! Sadly I saw this lovely town once only when I went there to see Southport FC play at their home ground in Haig Avenue. The occasion was a Monday night in March 1969 and the ...Read more

A memory of Southport in 1969 by John Howard Norfolk

If it was Tuesday and school holiday my sister Carolyn and I would go with Grampy Smith the village blacksmith to Trowbridge market. Having helped harness the pony, Peggy, to the old milk float, we'd ...Read more

A memory of Steeple Ashton in 1952 by Rosemary Brett Green

In my Family History endeavours concerning a Shewan family , I have learned that the parents died at a relatively young age . The fate of the orphaned children has been difficult to ascertain. However , at ...Read more

A memory of Haddington in 1900 by R Urquhart

My wife and I spent one year ( circa 1953 ) living in an apartment at Park House Farm where Tony Warner raised sugar beets and pigs. The Manor House was built on a Roman foundation which then formed the basement of the building. ...Read more

A memory of Snettisham by Herbert Kulik

I attended Holy Trinity Primary School, Church of England, at Darwen in the year 1955, when I was six years of age. There was a spiritual bond between the school and the Holy Trinity Church, as it was then called. ...Read more

A memory of Darwen in 1955 by Peter Farley

I was born in Ravensthorpe in 1937, went to school at St Saviour's infants and the Secondary Modern school until I was 15 years of age. I began working at Hartley Bros, a leather mill at the bottom of Scout Hill, later I worked at MKM ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury in 1960 by Ken Parratt