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My grandma had a chalet on green lane at skipsea for many years from 1950s and can remember when there was old train and tram carriges used as holiday lets all along the cliff top,my mum practicaly grew up there,as did i and can ...Read more

A memory of Skipsea by Wendy Newsome

We lived in 6 Promontory Terrace, which was on the border of Cullercoats and Whitley Bay, that was 1950 a time when the Fishermen's Cottages were just around the corner and we would have their Dressed Crab or the Wilecks as we ...Read more

A memory of Cullercoats by arnoldlee44

We moved to Ryde Park Road in 1950, I was Margaret Thompson then, my brother was Roger, his best friends were Alan Rainbow (Ashill Road) and Loyd Canty (Ashill Road). I went to Colmers Infants until Rednal Hill was built, then at 11 went ...Read more

A memory of Rednal by dignam_m

All my fathers family came from Ogmore Vale he moved to England but every summer we had our holidays in Ogmore ,i remember the Lymp and the ice cream parlour next door i used to go about with Dia Griggs Titch Gregory and frank and roger ...Read more

A memory of Ogmore Vale by cliffkeagle

I was born in 1954 and I lived in Batley Carr with my mum, Brenda (nee Charlesworth) and my dad, Tommy and younger brother, Kevin. At first we lived in Holgate's Yard, off Milton Street (The Irish Fold) and then maybe a couple ...Read more

A memory of Batley Carr by Ian Sewell

Underdown was a magical place, a narrow island of rock left by quarrying at some time in the past. This photo is taken from the western end. At the eastern end there was a copse and the top of the island merged back into the side of a ...Read more

A memory of Sampford Peverell in 1956 by Bruce Thomas

I was born in Garden Village, Billacombe in 1944 and lived there until I was 8 years old. My memories are very strong of walking up Pleasure Hill to Sunday School at Pomphlet, walking to and from Goosewell Infant School and ...Read more

A memory of Billacombe in 1944 by Jeffrey Smith

I was born in Aldbrough in 1947. We lived in a wooden chalet on the cliff top. I remember running to meet my father (Les Blondell) coming home on the bus from his work in Hull . He worked at Rhubens curtain shop on the ...Read more

A memory of Aldbrough by Lnda Wilson

I Patricia Kenny was at Saint Marys in early 1950s with my two sisters Penny and Pamela. I was 2 years old, Pamela 5 and a half and Penny seven years old. I can remember the dormotories, the nuns and kindly ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1954 by Patricia Kenny

This is looking down the street towards St. Margaret's church at the bottom on the right. The opening on the left leads to some bungalows on the left and further leads to the playing fields with swings, slides, sea-saws and ...Read more

A memory of Brotton in 1959 by Kay Grainger