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We lived in Arnold Avenue off Lansdowne Grove until I was 11, that would have been about 1959. I remember the footbridge over the railway where we used to stand and wait for a train to go under we used to love the the thick smoke and ...Read more

A memory of South Wigston in 1955 by Brian Heathcote

I was born in 54 Mill Street, Trecynon. As was my sister, our mother and her brothers and sitsters. A little 2 down 2 up, stone cottage. It was on the top of the hill, and we could run down "the trip" as we called it, and play there, ...Read more

A memory of Trecynon in 1947 by Heather Forey

I heard yesterday (Feb-19-2011) that Mr GWYLFA ROBERTS has passed on. To me, and I'm sure all others who knew him, he was the little man with a big heart! He of course taught Standard Two in Corwen School until ...Read more

A memory of Corwen in 1952 by Gareth Hughes

Secretary General of the Commonwealth Mr Don McKinnon made his first visit ever to Wolverhampton. This is the first time in all the city's history that this has happened, and I can ...Read more

A memory of Wednesfield in 2006 by Phil Bateman

I lived in Marfleet during the Second World War. One afternoon we heard a machine gun from the direction of Saltend. Not long after, a column of smoke arose. It was said at the ...Read more

A memory of Kingston upon Hull in 1940 by Terry Mccomish

My name is Rosie Pearce and I live in Tintagel, North Cornwall. These are just a few of my many childhood memories of Milverton. I lived in Reading with my father and grandmother after my mum died in 1954, I ...Read more

A memory of Milverton in 1954 by Rosie Pearce

l moved to Redditch in 1972, lived in Ombersley Close, Woodrow South. l attended the Leys High School, Mr Anstis was our headmaster, a very strict, but fair person. Other names l remember are: Mrs Dingley (art), Mr Turner (English & ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1972 by Lawrence Stack

SUDBURY 591/0/10020 GREAT WALDINGFIELD 21-NOV-05 HOLE FARM II House. Formerly a mid-C15 service building remodelled as a house in c.1600; later C17 extension to west; ...Read more

A memory of Sudbury in 1860 by Phyllis Willis

The first time I saw Stoke Hall was in late 1947, I and my parents were returning from India, having spent the time there since 1939. We arrived at Liverpool on the good ship 'Georgic', travelled by train to Grindleford then Teddy White's ...Read more

A memory of Froggatt in 1947 by James Simpson

I'm researching Bela Lugosi's 1951 British tour of Dracula. I would like to hear from anyone who attended the Sunday Pictorial Film Garden Party at Moreden Hall Park on Saturday June 16 1951 and saw or spoke to Bela ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1951 by Andi Brooks