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My dad was a band leader at the Palais in Aston-under-Lyne. He played violin. He stood at the front of the stage, playing, for the dancers on Saturday nights. He used to take me and I sat on the stage all night watching. His name was George Eric Bailey.

A memory of Failsworth in 1943 by Barbara Lowe

My mum was born in no 49 Manor Road, Gladys Crone - my aunts also, Jessie Crone and Mary Crone. Aunt Jessie Lived in no 49 till 1975. When I was born I lived in no 13. My mum was Gladys Mills Nee Crone. I am Keith Mills and I ...Read more

A memory of Erith by Keith Mills

I suppose I'm cheating but I can go back a good way further than the 1900s because my memories are mainly my mother's and she was born in 1904 and lived in South Street. She used to share her memories with me like ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill in 1900 by Constance Smith

Not quite a historical memory. But only last year I began some serious searching into my father's mother's family. She died when he was a wee child, and he lost touch with her family. He is now 94 years old, and this year I ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 2013 by Lavinia Moore

I was born Reading in 1945 and went home to The Red House in Sonning which adjoined the White Hart. My earliest recollection is when I was at the hotel at the age of 5, while visiting my grandmother who was the owner of the ...Read more

A memory of Sonning in 1945 by Brian Robinson

Anyone remember the competitions at the Royal? We lived over a newsagents in Clyde Road (1952 & 3, I think) and mum and her neighbour used to enter competitions at the Royal. She won a hat competition once. Anyone else enter those events?

A memory of Tottenham in 1952 by Sue Rowe

I recall seeing a film in 1948 in the school hall of Heys Road Boys School of the '1936 Olympics'. This was to educate us in the theme of the Olympics (remember there had been an abandonment from 1936 until 1948 when they ...Read more

A memory of Prestwich by Fred Plant

Bordeston school was pretty boring for many pupils. Woodwork was ok, and there was a school barge which you could work on instead of detention. There seemed to be a preoccupation with corporal ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell in 1960 by Nick Beard

The two principal grocery shops in Westbury village, as it was still usually called, in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the Co-operative grocery by the corner of Church Road -- the Co-operative butcher on ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

After Townsend's chemist shop was Hudderstone's which was a family business and Mrs Hudderstone pleasantly sold sweets, lemonades, ice cream and newspapers in the front of the shop and Mr Hudderstone undertook ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell