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I used to go to Keswick quite a lot as a child, to visit my great-uncle, David Dickson. He was born in North-Shields, but lived in Keswick for a good number of years, from about 1928-1967until he died. He used to paint pictures ...Read more

A memory of Keswick in 1958 by Brenda Glover Nee Malone

I was staying with my grandmother who lived in Lynch Close and she sent me for a loaf of bread (straight out of the oven) from Ponds Bakery in Windsor Street. As I came out of the shop, the air raid siren went off (very loud) which ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1940 by Lorna Jennings

As a young boy from 1943 to 1960, I lived in Heath Lane, Stourbridge and I think I spent almost all my free time playing in Mary Stevens Park. The area where the playground still stands would be where all the ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge in 1952 by John Smith

I was born in Bournbrook, Birmingham in 1950, daughter of Kenneth Clarke born 1924 and Joan Clarke (nee Price) born 1927. My father was born at 21 North Road, Bournbrook, son of Edith Clarke and Jack Clarke. ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1950 by Sue Coates

I remember falling off a bike on Millfield Crescent when I was about 7 or 8 and I had a really bad knee injury, there was no going to hospitals in those days though, it was Kit Bateman, a first aider at the pit, who mended me and ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1960 by Norman Dunbar

Hello, My dad used to play football for Jarrow St Bede's and later, South Shields Mariners. I want to research this as he has no momentoes from this era. I know that he was known as ...Read more

A memory of South Shields in 1949 by Heidi Turner

I recall paying one shilling for a session of swimming, with the changing rooms either side of the pool. We used to keep one eye on our swimming and the other on our changing cubicle where our cloths were. I attended ...Read more

A memory of Rawmarsh in 1960 by William Toughill

Old forgotten characters of Penge and Eden Park: The Duke of Penge Nell Horley the midwife Winny of the Eden Park Trading Agency The Lad who gave a prize-winning fighter a taste of what ...Read more

A memory of Penge in 1920 by Geoffrey Younger

My first job was at Bicester International Stores in August 1966. I was an apprentice grocer. My wages five pound ten shillings a week and I worked an extra half a day most weeks for thirty-seven and a half pence ...Read more

A memory of Bicester in 1966 by Franzel Weingart

I have so many happy memories of Purley on Thames. My older sister lived at No 1 River Gardens in the latter part of the 1960s until the middle of the 1970s. As kids, my brother and I spent many, many happy days playing in the ...Read more

A memory of Purley on Thames in 1969 by Clive Parker