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About a mile from Dialstone Lane School was a favourite play spot called Whistlehollow. It was a deep depression in the middle of fields and in the summer we used to try to dam the little brook that ran through the hollow. ...Read more

A memory of Stockport in 1940 by Ian Crowe

My strongest memories of Lewisham is there being three cinemas there. The Gaumont (where I saw the Beatles live in the 1960s) - I went to Saturday morning pictures there. The Rex cinema, just by the bridge ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham by Jackie Walder

There was a reason for the demise of the old building, but I cannot remember it - the relatively new one is lovely too - my daughter recently got married there and I played the wonderful pipe organ that is in situ. I used to ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1979 by Allen Warrender

I was born in Lowestoft in 1952. I went to Lovewell Road School and in 1963 we had the harshest winter for years. No heating at the school but no getting sent home then! Our teacher (Miss Cook I think) took us for a 'lovely walk' along ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft in 1963 by Philip Hannah

We moved to Dodleston in 1975 and left sadly in 1998. They were the happiest years. My children went to the villiage school and there were just 12 children then. The community feeling was great and the Whelmar estate hadn't been ...Read more

A memory of Dodleston in 1976 by Linda Dyer

I was born in 1946 and spent the first 3 years living in a curved un-insulated "nissen" hut next to the gunsight in Adel. We then moved to 71 Raynel Way in 1949. I attended Cookridge School and used to walk up ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge in 1949 by Brian Jarvis

From early 1970 to 1975, when I left Brixham, we used to go on a very regular basis, winter times Friday/Saturday, Summer time every night (except Sundays) when I could make it, and sing along with my local friends ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Gabriel in 1972 by Richard Simpson

I was born in 1951 and lived in Middlefield Road, Mistley with my parents, sister and brother. My maiden name was Lay - Flurrie. I attended Mistley Norman School in 1956 my teacher being Miss Temple, Headmaster was Mr Thompson. ...Read more

A memory of Mistley in 1956 by Heather Self

Crofton Hall has wonderful memories for me, because that is where I started school. The school was heated by a fire in the winter. We were allowed to play in the open spaces of the grounds, amongst the trees, and wild flowers. ...Read more

A memory of Crofton in 1945 by Eileen Neill

My Mum Elsie Hope and I (Ann Parkinson) ran the Post Office in Heysham Village at the height of its popularity, from 1962 to 1969. Those were the days of wakes weeks when visitors came flooding to Morecambe and Heysham. Apart from ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heysham in 1962 by Ann Wemyss Cooke