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Does anyone recall the knitwear factory of Boulanger adjacent to Motspur Park Station? My mother worked there from the early 1950s through to the mid 1970s - a long while! Perhaps there are people - if I recall, ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park in 1950 by Ken Sequin

I was born at number 3 North Street in 1942. I was in my mothers arms and can remember Italian prisoners of war marching up to the camp on the Beamsley side of the River Wharfe and hiding on a shelf under the stairs whilst a German ...Read more

A memory of Addingham in 1942 by Colin Lister

As well as Tony Lee’s riding stables behind the Crown there was another one run by Mrs Dudeen which you found by riding down the side of the cinema and the stables were at the back. I used to help by mucking out and grooming and getting the ...Read more

A memory of Selsey by chapmanlee

I, Ray Murphy, came across your site, re Shaw Mills, Yorkshire, U.K., as I was looking into events of my past life, for the benefit of my son’s Australian family, at the time of my 84th birthday, 19/9/35. I am the Patriarch of the ...Read more

A memory of Shaw Mills by raymurphy1935

My parents and I lived in one of the flats in Pershore Hall for about two or three years, when I was a toddler in the early 1960s. Probably between 1963 and 1965 (I was born in 1962). Naturally my memories are ...Read more

A memory of Pershore Hall by michaelaaylott

It may look drab on this photo but: I grew up here in the 1960's and this photo brings back many fond memories. The bus stop is where I used to wait for the Brown's Blue to Ashby Grammar just outside of Reenes ? clothes shop. The ...Read more

A memory of Ibstock by michaelgeorge2601974

As I have a terminal illness my children had asked me to write some short stories of my life. Some of the most enjoyable and memorable ones were when living in Tulse Hill. I looked on the internet for ...Read more

A memory of Tulse Hill by contact

I was born in 1951 and enjoyed a very happy childhood in Thornton Heath. Our house backed onto the Graveney River and the Rec. Blissful for children. Many happy hours spent in the children's playground with the playground lady a qualified ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Pauline Macdonald

My parents were from Shoreditch and Clapton and moved to Leyton. Because of the war my mother was sent to Willersley Castle in Derbyshire to give birth to me. We were living in King Edward Rd when we were bombed out and spent the ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe by Bob Blazey

Our September holidays were spent at "Shoreside", the grand old house in the centre of the photo. Back then it was owned by Colonel and Mrs Farquhar and Colonel Summers, my nan worked for the Farquhars in Wiltshire and ...Read more

A memory of Seaview by Mary Maillou