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Every year we would go to Pooles on the High Street to get yellow fishing nets so that we could go and collect tadpoles from ponds around the area. We would deliberate for a good while over what colour nets to get but we ...Read more

A memory of Goldenhill in 1971 by Tina Stanyer

My grandfather, John Henry Penny (Jack), built a house in Donniford Road. He called it The House Jack Built; it is still there today and is just before the lane going to Hellwell Bay. It was designed by Charles Royle Penny, one ...Read more

A memory of Watchet in 1930 by Edith Rees

Yesterday, 6/2/2014, I like thousands of others in Swindon had to stay in because of the weather, not even my daily totter round the block with my dog, so I sat back and went on a mental walk around Crewe, so what did I see? My three ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1940 by Ken Wood

Hi there. I'll always have fond memories of Valentines Park, those beautiful swans and Canadian cygnets at the Cranbrook Road end, Gants Hill Odeon, library, the bird cage in Valentines Park, the boat lakes, the brass ...Read more

A memory of Ilford by bevjoemorris

My mum ran the raga muffin second hand shop in the satisfied from 1971 It was relocated when the new saimsbury a was opened in the mid eighties. I remember elliot butcher shop in West Street and the fish shop in swan street. Wales the ...Read more

A memory of Warwick by eaugerr

we used to live in a terraced house at 30 South street before we moved into 2,Byron Avenue.on the corner.Dad worked in Swan Hunters shipyard and Mum worked in the Co-op on the Black road.Dad drank in the Clock pub.Mums family lived ...Read more

A memory of Hebburn by vernon.bruce

The girl in the foreground could easily be me with one of my brothers in his pram. It was usual to be left outside the shop to look after one or all of my brothers - and of course very safe to do so - when my mum went inside to ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster

This was a weekend to remember! The Clitheroe Morris Men invited several other dance "sides" to join them for a weekend of dancing, music and - of course - beer drinking! By a lucky chance I was ...Read more

A memory of Clitheroe in 1980 by John Howard Norfolk

I would define the center of Sheriff Hill to be the intersection of Southend Terrace, Windy Nook Road, Sodhouse Bank, and Church Road. I was born not 100ft from the intersection on Windy Nook Road. Our cottage ajoined the ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1942 by Robert Hall

My name George Conquest, I lived at 12a King Street before it was rebuilt. I used to play in Mary Stephens Park, and the swan pool, the 'rec', and the sand pit at the top of King Street where C&V coaches were based. I went ...Read more

A memory of Wollaston in 1951 by George Conquest