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Living in Bearwood (posh end of Smethwick) I pushed my bike then Lambreta Scooter up and down the Hagley Road between 1956-62 as I served out my engineering apprenticeship at Bellis & Morcom, Ledsam Street, Edgbaston.  Good ...Read more

A memory of Edgbaston in 1956 by Terry King

In Bonnie Scotland The road back to Campsie Glen Is a forty-year long tunnel of mist! Dug deep into the cut bedrock of memory, And neatly knitted in the multi-storey labyrinth Of pouring passions, in pounding poems!! ...Read more

A memory of Campsie Glen in 1965 by Dr. Feisal Esmael

My most vivid memory of school is walking past the church and on to the wooden huts at the back. These huts were the infant school. I think that they came from an old POW camp. They were heated by old pot-bellied stoves that burned ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1955 by Stephen Lloyd

I was only thinking about my early education recently, then one evening I stumbled across this photo of my old school.  I was only a baby when my family, along with thousands over the years, moved to the commuter (only it ...Read more

A memory of Garforth by First Name Last Name

The small sandy beach at Newhaven was known as the horse shoe bite. It was completely covered at high tide, but as the water receded, it exposed fine golden sand, ideal for making castles and getting in your sandwiches. A row of ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1960 by Kathy Farmer C/O Terry Roberts Roberts Flooring Contractors Ltd

Yes, that's the name we gave them later on in our youth. No one did fish and chips like Mr Buttler and his wife, only costing a few pence to my knowledge. We used to put loads of salt and vinigar on. Then this loud voice ...Read more

A memory of Shelf by Steven Ambler

I was introduced to Cornwall and Polzeath when as a teenager I went to an Anglican young people's house party at Tristram House. I absolutely fell in love with Cornwall and remember wonderful walks across the cliffs to ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath in 1960 by Margaret Young

For very many years the dancers and musicians of Whitethorn Morris have performed in the streets at Wimborne Folk Festival each June and have been fascinated to see another team known as ...Read more

A memory of Winterborne Kingston in 2007 by John Howard Norfolk

I would like to say my first memories of Waterloo was we lived in one of my grandmother's houses, it was called as I remember The Big White House. It was a very large house, I think it actually had 2 houses as ...Read more

A memory of Waterloo in 1970 by Jane (Stewart) Townsley

My first memory was going to school from Pen-y-Ball and being tought by Mrs Daisy Jones, Eluned Jones, Mr Bellis (the headmaster) and Mr Yeomans who we all loved, and also attending Sunday School every Sunday was a ...Read more

A memory of Brynford in 1950 by Ann Hughes