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It's twenty five years gone March since the miners' strike but it does not seem like five minutes to me and my family. I remember it like it was yesterday. Many families went ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1984 by Karen Surtees

For a young bus enthusiast in the 1960s, the bus station on Garth Road was the gateway to Anglesey and many of the country routes behind Bangor. Such exciting places as Gerlan, Bethesda, Tregarth and Rhiwlas could be ...Read more

A memory of Bangor in 1965 by John Owen

I lived in Childswickham from 1944 -1955 and as far as I am concerned it was the best place on earth. We had our own school, post office, shop and garage. Everyone knew everyone else and as children we had complete and utter ...Read more

A memory of Childswickham in 1944 by Margaret Turner

Used to live over the cafe, then downstairs when it was closed and made into a flat; the younger two of our four sons were born there (one upstairs and one downstairs!). our two eldest boys went to the village school, and ...Read more

A memory of Beadnell in 1962 by Derek Bee

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

When my mother first bought the 'Pink' cottage, at the edge of the fen, it was very dilapidated, the barn in the back was almost gone, we had no electricity, no running water, the ceilings were too low, the stairs were falling down. ...Read more

A memory of Reach in 1959 by Jeannette Howard

I grew up in and lived in Bensham for the first 26 years of my life, albeit the last 5 of those years were spent in the Merchant Navy as a sea-going engineer. My first school was Chester Place School which was across the road from ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Noel Kelly

My ancestors go back in a strong line to Eaugate: first ref. is to Thomas BRADFORD in 1811 (born) m. Anne Draper from GEDNEY. One son JOHN was my grandmother's father, she was Mary-Ann, b 1878, a preacher's daughter, but 'low' ...Read more

A memory of Moulton Eaugate by Valerie Peyrusse

From 1935 to 1941 I was a pupil at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Crediton, travelling every day by train from Morchard Road Station, leaving home at ten minutes past eight to board the eight thirty train ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland

In the process of charting my family tree I discovered that my ancestors had lived in Low Kilburn during the 18th and 19th centuries. Thomas Gamble was a butcher and the family lived in the row of cottages at the other side of the pub ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by Janet Marsh