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Hi there born 16/02/1951 lived at 7 Barton street back to back no longer (there). Had gas lighting and electric lighting and a gas lamp outside my bedroom. Townhead cotton mill was at the bottom of our street and knocker upper use tap the ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale by Andrew J Howley

My mum dad and I spent our summer holidays at Knott end stayed with my god parents, Chris and Mona henshall who lived at 14wesbourne road I got to no a girl whose name was Yvonne and lived at 10 Barton road we kept in touch I ...Read more

A memory of Knott End-on-Sea by chrisedwardevans1956

I went to St Catherine's from about the age of 7 in 1958 along with my siblings. Some of my best friends were Sandra Humphries, who wanted to be a pop singer and I remember she had a great voice, Gillian Andrews, ...Read more

A memory of Barton Upon Irwell

All of the above comes to mind and stands out above all other memories for me. A weekend trip to Yates with my eldest sister to buy popular chart singles, hop scotching on the ...Read more

A memory of Cannock

Since my birth coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in the September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity;  I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey house ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1945 by Heather Rohrer

Ref: the smithy to the left of the thatched cottages. I was evacuated at the age of 11, birthday the day before, to Miss Scott's cottage (which was sited opposite the smithy). On my first day in Barton (1/9/39) I was given a bedroom in ...Read more

A memory of Barton Seagrave in 1940 by Tom Andrews

Visited Sir Walter's birthplace at Hayes Barton and touched the house to link with his history and spirit. Beautiful location and could imagine him as a young man looking out over the same countryside that I could survey.  It ...Read more

A memory of East Budleigh in 2007 by kelvin.baines

I remember 'guddling' for trout in the Teal Burn in Auchtertool.  Most of the lads in the village tried it at one time or another. When we caught one we would measure it by placing the nose of the trout on our finger tips ...Read more

A memory of Auchtertool in 1946 by Harry Robertson

Hi.  I moved into the Gamecock in 1963 with my parents Norman and Jean Bennett and my brother Bryan, I was only two years old. My parents were landlord and land lady. Bartons grocers was next door, there was no Gamecock Field as ...Read more

A memory of Harworth in 1963 by Eleanor Hipwell

My mother asked me to go to the shops and get some bread at Barton's the bakers. I was just ten years old. 'But' she said, 'if a raid starts, don't hang about but run straight back home'. I often had to go to the shops, it ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1942 by William Pullum