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My Mother, Father and I (aged 9) moved to Newport around 1952. We lived in 18 Albian Street owned by a Mr O'Connor, I believe. My best friends where Roger Roberts at number 1, and Walter James, I think at number 8. We went to a school ...Read more

A memory of Wyecliff in 1953 by Gary E J Beckett

My great great grandfather was born in Oakmill, Bream on July31st 1831. He was one of 14 children, they were--- Elizabeth born 12.06 1812- died 22.02 1885 Samuell born 15.09.1815- died ...Read more

A memory of Bream in 1860 by Mary Rowley

I now live in Australia but as a youngster I grew up just outside Newport Pagnell at Tongwell Farm. Whilst at school in Newport and whilst they were building the M1 motorway we used to get collected in a mini bus and ...Read more

A memory of Newport Pagnell in 1960 by Bob Anderson

It’s a rather sad fact that you only come to appreciate a town several years after you have left it. At the age of 19 I was sent to live and work in Stafford between 1964 and 1979, before ...Read more

A memory of Stafford by nimrod01

Born in Machen, moved to Thomastown as war began, my parents opened a shop at 7 Newport Rd. and sold fish and chips there until long after I became a physician, and found a specialist career in hospitals in S Wales, and then the ...Read more

A memory of Trethomas in 1940 by Tony Cook

I was Born in 1968, and resided in a small 2 bedroom house in Maes Morfa, Newport Pembs with my elder brother, sister and mother and father. Little did I know how blessed I was. Although life seemed to be quite difficult in ...Read more

A memory of Parrog by Linda

I was 4 in 1960, but I remember my dad working as a goods guard on the railway at the back of our house in Church Crescent, He used to go over the garden fence to work, and catch the train to Brecon, and North Wales from ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg in 1960 by Marilyn Lomas

I was born at 7, Nightingale Row, in the box room which was originally shared by my mother Mavis Warren and her sister Glennis Byard as they were to become. The daughters of George and Martha (Dot) Edwards. The house was rented from a ...Read more

A memory of Pontnewydd by howardwarren257

I stayed here with my parents in about 1968, when I would have been 10. We were visiting my great-uncle, the pioneering air-to-air aviation photographer Charles Sims, who lived at Wootton, near the then recently closed (and now happily ...Read more

A memory of Fishbourne by socaman_58

I was born in Newport in 1942 and after leaving the Nursing Home lived in 6,Garth Hill Bassaleg the home of my paternal grandparents, Oliver and Alice Briney. After a short time my parents (Nellie and Fred Briney) moved to Highfield ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg in 1940 by Malcolm Briney