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i went to fallin primary school i was born in 1952 Capt Gracie was the headmaster at fallin school, i lived in the wooden house in Hilton Terrace number 19 , auld Hailey Mghee was our next door neighbours, my late dad was ...Read more

A memory of Fallin by June Mc Allister

I was at Styal 1960, I was in Snow White House, my sister was there at the same time she was in Wendy House as she was only 5yrs old. Maria and Claire Donnelly. Claire stayed for 3 years. I remember Nurse Pinfold she was the SRN I visited her many ...Read more

A memory of Styal by Maria Hutton

Hello Mark Waller, I came across your illuminating text when looking for information regarding Stubbington House in regard to my memoir, which I am currently writing. It's fascinating to read the other comments from ...Read more

A memory of Stubbington by Peter Moore

Well, fancy that, that's awakened some memory cells! Until the age of 11 years I was raised in a poorer housing area of Belgrave, Leicester, which was all the housing that was available after the War in ...Read more

A memory of Leicester

My first memory of Ottershaw was the big freeze in the early 50's when, with a friend's help, I built a snow wall across Bousley Rise near to the top of the hill just before our house "Lintons". My father James Daborn [Jim] was not ...Read more

A memory of Ottershaw by tvsafrica

I was a pupil at Roke Infants and Juniors from 1952 to 1958 as were my two brothers and sister slightly different dates. I have a photo of Mr Harris’s class in 1957/1958 and of the school cricket team in the same year. In both I am ...Read more

A memory of Purley by Rex Bryan

My Mother Lavender was born at 39 Alma Road. She had a sister, Shirley and brother Alan. Mum married my Dad Peter Biggs from King's Lynn. My Nana and Grandad were Lucy and Fred Tall, living at 39 Alma Road. Molly and Ted Benstead ...Read more

A memory of Snettisham by Trevor Biggs

I was born 1947 in Old St Ann's. Even though the council said they were slums I had a happy childhood. St Ann's was a community like no other, most mums went out to work, and the mum who was at home would look after us till mum came home ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham by Susan Dawn

I was born at what was then no 5 Chain Terrace in 1935. My name then was Arthur O'Hara. My surname has since been changed to Harrow. The photo of Chain Terrace in this site shows the house that I was born in (I think), with ...Read more

A memory of Creetown in 1940 by Arthur Harrow

I lived in Wigpool after the Second World War with my new wife and baby son. There were no proper roads to the village, just mud tracks which became impassable in the winter for vehicles. This meant we had to ...Read more

A memory of Wigpool Common in 1948 by Colin Hall