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I’ve just found this website, I had already spoken to Thomsons after finding out about case and seeing it in the daily record. I had a terrible abusive childhood and I was sent to Fornethy several times from 1971 - 1976 ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by Sandra Arnott

This is a view across Trearddur Bay, looking south - the beach is known in Welsh as Tywyn Capel. The house behind the beach is Glan-y-Môr built in 1889 and next to it is the Dune Mound which was the location of St.Ffraid’s ...Read more

A memory of Holyhead

I remember Selsdon well as my family lived at 68 Edgecoombe, the long road on the opposite side of the wood at Selsdon not to be confused with Selsdon Woods. We had two ways to get to Selsdon shops. Through the woods opposite ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Brookes

My parents, Nora & Harold (Jock) Palmer, lived at 112 Windmill Road, Brentford where I was brought up, along with my twin brother David and older brother Michael. Later we were joined by sister Janis and brother Jeremy ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Linda Nicholas

As a sickly child, I missed much of my early schooling and eventually attended schools for the physically handicapped. My senior school was the Venetian School for boys in Camberwell, south London. We went on School Journeys during my ...Read more

A memory of Rustington by Peter Nunn

So many wonderful memories of the "old challaborough" my parents owned a caravan there so we were lucky enough to spend weekends and holidays there. I loved the dolphin cafe on the sea front and then there was another restaurant ...Read more

A memory of Challaborough by Tracy Brown

30 years just passed but it still seems present, the time I spent in Witheridge since 24 December to 1st January when I got back to London and then flied back to Italy. I spent splendid days by a family of friends ...Read more

A memory of Witheridge in 1978 by Guido Caramia

I was a teenager in the 1950s, worked at Consett Iron Company. We were teddy boys, had all the gear, suits, shoes ... Our nights out were Co-op dance Thursday nights. Them that had girlfriends always met them inside. Friday was a ...Read more

A memory of Consett in 1950 by Alan Sanderson

I too trained at RHG from 1963-1966 and I don't think any training these days could surpass the excellent training I received there. It was hard work but fun and I learned a lot and met some lovely people along the way. I ...Read more

A memory of Redhill by Pauline Fiorentino

I spent the academic year 1987/88 in Kent training to become a Careers Adviser on a post-graduate course run by Kent College for the Careers Service. During my course I had to visit businesses, ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1987 by John Howard Norfolk