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When I was two I moved out to Wellbank from Sheil Hill near Tealing. When my house was getting built I got my photo taken in the foundations. Mattocks Primary School's extension was just getting built ...Read more

A memory of Wellbank in 2000 by Joseph Higgins

I wasn't from West Auckland, my dad was. My Aunt Belle lived there, who still wore a long black dress in the 1940s and 1950s. She made and sold vinegar, she also kept hens at the back of the house, she had names for them too like Hetty ...Read more

A memory of West Auckland in 1944 by Paula Mccutcheon Anderson

I was born and brought up in the Milton. Lived at 2 Milton Rows. I can remember going to Crossshill School. Miss Foote and Miss Page were two of the teachers. I remember well the Miners Galas, the potato picking, and what ...Read more

A memory of Crosshill in 1940 by Anne Wright

My first memory of Wincobank is having a holiday with grandparents in Vauxhall Road. I was only 12 at the time and it was an awful lot to take in after having been brought up in Kent. I clearly remember the turkeys ...Read more

A memory of Wincobank in 1945 by Eric Billingham

Lemington in the 1940s was a village that came under Newburn council, it was surrounded by fields. There were no houses to the west of Union Hall Road and Denton Avenue and none above Kirkston Avenue. There were three bars and two ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1940 by George Ritson

My name is now Marie Moore but my maiden name was Jeeves. Memories of Cayton Bay 1960s to 70s will stay with me forever, my nannan, mam and her 2 sisters all had their own caravans on Wallis's Holiday Camp, our caravan number was ...Read more

A memory of Cayton Bay in 1963 by Marie Moore

Brigg holds so many memories for me. As a teenager I used to visit my grandparents, aunts and uncles and other family members in Brigg. I lived in a town in South Wales and Brigg was a small little community, completely different to what ...Read more

A memory of Brigg by Allan David Fisher

Brian Halse - lived in Hawkesbury Upton from 1969 - 1973. Drank in both the Beaufort and the Fox. Married local girl Fiona Dix at St Mary's Church, got divorced a couple of years later, smartest move she ever made. ...Read more

A memory of Hawkesbury Upton in 1969 by Brian Halse

Looking up the High Street, at the very top you can just make out Shire Hall. The building to the right, which used to be J. G. Bonds, is now the Debenhams store. The building just beyond the lamp post, sticking out, is ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by John Crouch

I was born at 27 Langdale Terrace in 1963 at my lovely grandma and granda's house, Vera and Harry Kirtley. Granda worked at Westwood pit then Hamstley colliery and when that shut he worked at Eden. I ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1970 by John Priestman