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In the 1940s and 1950s as a young lad and then teenager, I used to spend my summer holidays with my grand parents who lived at 171 St. Helens Road Hastings. I have very fond memories of Hastings in general and in particular of ...Read more

A memory of Hastings by toebrown

Life began on 29th January 1944 in Bexleyheath. We lived in a small conjoined house at number 12 Rowan Road. Born to parents Leonard George and Dorothy Beresford just before the end of WW11. ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Paul Beresford

The title is taken from a Cloughjordan native and Irish patriot Thomas MacDonagh. Cloughjordan is quiet village located between the towns of Nenagh, Roscrea and Birr. A village that was borne from a Medieval Castle ...Read more

A memory of Cloughjordan by sea.costello

I was at school at Tylers Croft school in 1957 for 18 months before we moved to Oxfordshire. I remember walking to school from where I lived in Salmon Street, along Slough Lane and passed the Green Man pub and crossing over the Kingsbury ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by carole.gentry

I was at Clare, from 1958 - 60. Dampier House I think (actually I think it was Eliot House)....I don't know if anyone remembers me? It was an interesting couple of years, roaming free in the Somerset countryside - a little bit like "Lord ...Read more

A memory of East Coker by Kevin Hunt

I loved Burnt Oak as it was at that time.I started school at the Annunciation in 1942 with Kathleen Oatts and Irene Keech,they both lived in Langham Gardens. in 1948 I moved on to St Thomas's in Stanmore ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by Teresa Keech

lackhall colliery in the 1940s and 50s i was lucky to be brought up there proud loyal hard working people so different from life today.born 1940 lived in 11th street and was encased in love and safetymy father was a shaft man ...Read more

A memory of Blackhall Colliery by elcxb44

My name is Bill Young not related to the girl with the same name above, and I too was at the Edith Brough home in Whaggs Lane Whickham. I went there with my brother Bobby in the late 1940's, probably about 1946/7/8 ...Read more

A memory of Whickham by bjyoung2009

Would love to hear from anybody with memories of Sunnyhill Camp, Sunnyhill, Derby, now I believe called Staunton Avenue or road. I lived with my parents at number 14, my Father was a police officer with the army department ...Read more

A memory of Derby by Peter Whyatt

Following several years as an outpatient at Newcastle General hospital, I was admitted to Shotley Bridge hospital in October 1959 where I had open heart surgery on 27 October to repair two holes in my heart. ...Read more

A memory of Shotley Bridge by happychappy