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I grew up in Regal way just off Preston Hill but was born in Shirehall Rd in 1938. My memories of living in Regal way were rather sketchy and am trying to jog my memory of my life there from 1938 until 1953. We attended the Catholic church ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by fernandoferreira76

My mother was a Woolley and she was born and brought up in Ashbourne where most of her wider family still lived when I was a child. I was brought up in Uttoxeter, my father's home town, but I was born at Ashbourne maternity ...Read more

A memory of Ashbourne by goodkell

The row of houses on the hillside is Holmclose, a row of council houses built after the Second World War, where I lived from 1950 to 1970. The large building in the foreground is Hinchliffe Mill JMI School where I attended until 1956 when I then went to Holme Valley Grammar School.

A memory of Holmbridge by Mrs M I Davies

My father (Frank Francis) worked at this garage TBC following his return to Kidderminster at the end of the war. He worked there through all of the remaining 40s and 50s. As a young boy I had the run of the garage and its roof garden. ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster by alanfrancis66

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

In 1955, aged 12 years old, I clearly remember visiting North Devon with my father - we toured the district traveling on an old two stroke Francis Barnet - we stayed bed and breakfasting with 'Percy' who lived close to Woody Bay - My ...Read more

A memory of Kentisbury Ford by Alan Young

My father grew up in Dinnington. He lived on The Crescent with his mum, dad and 2 older sisters. Once married, he settled in Manchester, where my 2 sisters, my brother and myself were born. Having no family car, visits to my grandma ...Read more

A memory of Dinnington by Maureen Oates

As a boy of thirteen, with my family, after the war, I spent all my school holidays in Cornwall. Six weeks with my Uncle Arthur and Aunt Mabel in a tied cottage on Lower Tregantle Farm near Torpoint. The very air was ...Read more

A memory of Lower Tregantle by Brian Conn

A pleasant comment on my last memory, made by Mr Steve Flora, whom I’ve never met, has prompted me to tell some more stories about Upper Boddington. On November 25th, 1944, a Wellington Bomber; no. LN242, took off from Chipping ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boddington by Peter Bishop

I was at Hillside in JAN 67 - my daughter was born at the end of Feb - I remember sharing a room with two Carol’s - would love to know where they are now.

A memory of Harrow on the Hill by Marion Bristow