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Memories of First Dates When I was young and very green! , no let’s say not worldly wise! Even know I could die with embarrassment looking back on my attempts to emulate the big screen stars. My Dad owned a lot of cinemas ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne by David Hinge

Memories start in 1953 when Elizabeth became our Queen. I remember all the windowsills were decorated. I was 4 at the time. As I grew up with my sister and 3 brothers we had many a happy time in Gales Crest on the green playing ...Read more

A memory of Chudleigh Knighton in 1953 by Sonja Sparrow

The best of my childhood memories are of Highfield House and Highfield Cottage in the late part of the 60s and early 70s. The summers always seemed hot and the days were long and happy. I come from a large ...Read more

A memory of Earlsheaton in 1970 by Maggie Benham

I was a 16 year old boy and lived with my family on a hillside opposite Tunstead quarry known as The Lees. Every Sunday morning I would pick up the papers (News of the World , People etc) on my bicycle from the post office in Peak Dale, ...Read more

A memory of Wormhill in 1952 by Don Edwards

My father was policeman in Grindleford from 1952 to 1956, I was almost 5 years old when we moved there and my sister was 10 years old. We lived in the first red brick house on the hill going out of the village to Eyam. ...Read more

A memory of Grindleford in 1953 by Jennifer Mosley

This is the spot where the dancers and musicians of Dartington Morris and their guests Heather and Gorse Clog Dancers performed in August 2008. The view shows some villge women sitting on a low ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Gabriel in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

You say you have no photos of Rattray--the photo of Blairgowrie is TAKEN FROM the Blairgowrie side, but is of the Rattray bank of the Ericht, with the prominent spire of the Methodist Church which is over the bridge in Rattray. Just a wee point! John

A memory of Rattray by john

I lived in the second cottage in from about 1984-1990 when both my parents worked at King Edward's School, my mum as a nurse in the San and my dad as a plumber in the boiler houses. I had an idyllic childhood here and used to play ...Read more

A memory of Wormley by kelleherm

Hello, my name is Jeane Moorhouse, nee Huxley, I started life on Band St, Hollywood area, in 1952, then moved to Hilton St. My only memories from here are the wash house and Hollywood Park where the fair would arrive and the ...Read more

A memory of Stockport in 1956 by Jeane Moorhouse

This photo appears at the back of Essex Living Memories (pages 112 - 113) and in "I Remember When ... Memories of Britain (page 134)".  The two ladies in the foreground with the prams appear familiar - The lady on the left may ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1955