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I remember Girl Guides with my friend Wendy Hobson at the Holy Cross Churches and Evensong at 6:30PM on Sundays. Yes Wendy, I remember after the 9AM mass we would go over to Bethem hall after service to set up for Parish ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1954 by Barbara H Balint

A few of my happy memories of living here in Kirkley Cliff opposite the Putting Green, went to school at was Alderman Woodrow Sec/School helped paint a fishing boat scene in the entrance, days on Trawlers /Drifters as a ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft in 1948 by John Carr

My memories of Waterperry are all happy ones, my granmother Mrs Sparkes lived at no 4, the house was built in 1921, and my mother lived there as well, so some of the memories are from what she told me and some are from myself. As ...Read more

A memory of Waterperry by Graham Davis

My father Clifford Egan passed away at 80 years old on the 27th July last year, 2010. He was brought up in Kirbymoorside and had wanted to return there for a visit for many years, but due to ill health he didn't make it back. I ...Read more

A memory of Kirkbymoorside in 1930 by Kevin Egan

In the 1960s we used Blandford as our main shopping town, we lived in Child Okeford six miles away. Hobbs were a good toy shop, Frisbys shoe shop, Cherrys outfitters were another must when shoppinG for clothes, indeed both Frisbys ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Forum in 1960 by David Moon

I walked across this bridge four times every day, on my way to and from school (I used to go home for lunch). Home was Abberd Way, and the school was on the Green. I used to stop there to watch trout, and I can still recall the smell of ...Read more

A memory of Calne in 1952 by Patrick Hayes

Downham Market in my younger days was a happy small market town where everyone knew everyone else, in the days before overspill there were lots of small shops, like the bakers Stannards and Slys where you would ...Read more

A memory of Downham Market by Ray Dent

I was born in Victoria Place, Prescot in 1940. Does anyone remember Jonny Mather's sweet shop? I remember the street party when my dad painted Cictoria Place white, and the first car in our street, it was an Austin 8 owned by ...Read more

A memory of Prescot in 1940 by Winston Fairclough

At 17 years of age, after interviews at British Railways commercial HQ at Cymric Buildings in Cardiff, I started work as a Booking Clerk at Senghennydd Station, replacing David Sellick who lived overlooking the station ...Read more

A memory of Senghenydd in 1955 by Arthur Davies

I was brought up in Shrewsbury in the 1950s. The Theatre Royal had already gone then, although my mother used to tell me about it, but the wonderful Victorian gothic market hall on the left was still there. I loved it. ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury by Sylvia Ashton