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This is my Uncle and Aunt and cousin Arthur, outside their cottage no. 32 North Hill in Clovelly village. They lived there for many years and took in many many people for B&B, people ...Read more

A memory of Clovelly by Graham Shackson

The three windows in Canonball House was my classroom at Castle Hill School.

A memory of Edinburgh in 1951 by Anita Razzell

This is the first swimming pool I ever saw and where I learned to swim. I went to the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and this is where we were taken, once a week, for our swimmimg lessons. I was placed into care when I was 11 years old ...Read more

A memory of Horncastle by Ray Cooke

I was born in Consett at 11 Newmarket Street in June 1933, though my parents were living in Norfolk and later on in Middlesex. I was sent back to live with aunts when the Blitz really got going. I went to the CofE Primary ...Read more

A memory of Consett in 1940 by Malcolm Hutton

My family lived in East Loftus - our family name was Morris. My Dad was in the choir at All Saints Church, Easington and my brother David and I attended Sunday school there every Sunday. Our parents joined us ...Read more

A memory of Easington in 1954 by Kathleen Oyediran

Hi! I was born in Meir 1934,and all my mother's family lived in Longton (Worsdale). My Uncle Frank had "The Studio" pub in Commerce Street, and, later, "The Studio Snackery". I've lots of great memories of Smith's Crisps,and ...Read more

A memory of Longton in 1940 by Gerald Copestake

I have always loved Highmoor; my father, John Tudor Mills, was born there, at Satwell, in 1924, his mother Doris Tudor having been born opposite St Paul's church in Highmoor in 1900; her parents, George Tudor, of ...Read more

A memory of Highmoor Cross by Roger Mills

I have some lovely memories of Mansfield market place. My dad, George Fisher, my mum, Margaret, and my lovely Uncle Johnny stood the market for many years. My grandad started the business many years before selling fruit & veg. ...Read more

A memory of Mansfield in 1975 by Wendy Fisher

I have very fond memories of staying with my grandparents Norman and Ivy Ralphs in 15 Jubilee Grove in the late 1970s and 1980s. My mother, my older sister and myself would visit in the school holidays and because we used ...Read more

A memory of Sleaford by Charmaine Van Beek

I lived at 2 Glendale Avenue with my mam and dad, Martin and Peggy, and my two sisters, Margaret and Maureen, and my brother Martin. My grandparents lived at number 10 Glendale. My earliest memories revolve around playing in the ...Read more

A memory of Bebside in 1962 by John Gaughan