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I remember going to Slough on a Saturday night in 1958. I was fifteen years old. My hair was well greased and combed back at the sides and ending in a D.A. at the back together a quiff at the front. I was dressed in my ...Read more

A memory of Slough in 1958 by Charles Jenkins

I lived in Wellingborough from 1952 to 1971. My Father was J N Clark, and with my Mum owned and ran the General Store on Weavers Road until 1960. Mum and Dad took me to see my first film ...Read more

A memory of Wellingborough in 1956 by Stanley Clark

The year I began at Newton le Willows Grammar School, I had sprained my ankle running through the back lanes of Earle Street in the holidays and had my foot in a bandage. We lived in Brookfield Street until I was 5 or so with my ...Read more

A memory of Earlestown in 1966 by Lynda Gaskell

I was born in Laurel Avenue in 1936 and lived there until 1959. During the war we were bombed out of our house following an air raid during the night, when German bombers were trying to cut the main line between London and Edinburgh. ...Read more

A memory of Potters Bar in 1950 by Philip Field

I grew up in Parkgate when there were three pubs and three shops, I schooled at St Pauls Junior School, Headmaster was a very strict Mr Moore with Mr Teare, Ms Bowness I think, Miss Martin and Mrs Crossthwaite. Those were the days ...Read more

A memory of Frizington in 1955 by John Isaac Johnston

I was born at 18 Greive Street. I had an older brother, 'Big' Al, alas deceased. I also have 2 sisters, Senga and Elaine, and a younger brother, Grant. We stayed in the Main Street then moved to Queens Avenue till I married. My ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1940 by George Robertson

My memory of Coalville is all the good good friends I had to leave behind when I moved to Nottingham. I played for Bardon Hill FC juniors in the day, we used to play practically in the quarry and we had a great young side in those days, ...Read more

A memory of Coalville in 1979 by Daz Woolley

After living in Jamaica and Barbados for some years, we returned and my father became priest-in-charge of Gratwich and Kingstone in the 1970s and early 1980s. I was the eldest of five. Our crumbling, draughty, ...Read more

A memory of Gratwich in 1974 by Ruth Gledhill

I think it was about 1939-41 that my mother, Florence O'Donovan, my sister Sheila and I went to Borth with Mrs Back and her children Joan and Guy to get away from the danger of living in Norwich which was a target for bombing during ...Read more

A memory of Borth in 1930 by Mary Dorey

During the Second World War my family lived in Liverpool. My parents decided it was much too dangerous for me so I was evacuated to a small school being run in an old house called Kelbarrow overlooking the lake. My best friend there was a ...Read more

A memory of Grasmere in 1940 by Joan Rothwell