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I lived at nine forge field with my Granddad and Grandma and went to school at the local primary school. When I was about eight or nine years of age, I befriended a local landowner from Coopers Farm, his name Mike ...Read more

A memory of Stonegate in 1968 by Kenneth Hazelden

It was either 1967 or '66, I can't quite recall. I was attending St Georges S M school Dersingham, when a producer came up from London and put our year through its paces to put on a performance from Animal Farm for the school. I ...Read more

A memory of Shernborne in 1967 by Anne Bell

I was born at Trend-de-Hayes off Raworth Lane in 1926 and went on to live at Coventry Corners a couple of years later at a house called 'Roycroft'. I Started school at the Riverside Juniors school, our head teacher was a ...Read more

A memory of Hullbridge in 1930 by Roy Cox

It is now 41 years since I resided in Rothley, and there is not one day that passes that I don't think about it. Recently I found photographs on an 'Old Rothley' website, as I was browsing I found a photograph of my parents standing ...Read more

A memory of Rothley by Sandie Lee

All the children in the 80's grew up on the Trading Estate, we would ride, skate, play around the factories all day, and sometimes late into the night. Rhyd-yr-helyg and Oxford Street have given me fond memories of growing up.

A memory of Treforest Industrial Estate in 1984 by Andrew Higgins

I was born in Rotherhithe in 1939 and moved with my parents to south Norwood when I was 3. I went to Cypress Primary School during the last year of the war and remember vividly walking from ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1944 by Bernard Maguire

I was at Taxal Lodge between 1974 to 1977, at that time Mr David Hughes was the head master,and lived in a flat inside the main building. Mr David Dusgate was the deputy head. I loved being at Taxal, it instilled in me a ...Read more

A memory of Taxal in 1975 by Matthew Fox

The best years of my life. I was happy and content and had lots of friends. My father was stationed at Tern Hill but we moved off base at Boscobel Road to a bungalow he built called "Green Haven" opposite ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1969 by Steven Loska

MY YOUNG DAYS AT CATHERINGTON, RANDELLS COTTAGE, LINKHORN Born in 1942 in Cornwall, my early years of school were at Clanfield. My holidays were spent at my grandmother’s house at Randells Cottage, my father was ...Read more

A memory of Catherington in 1947 by Chris Girlow

I recognised several of the names mentioned by Clare. I was Tricia Heathcote then. Michele Tooth came to stay with me one holidays. Her parents were actors and she had a boxer dog named Tree. (Strange the ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1953 by Trish Sones