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I remember Huins shoe shop, and Evesham Street. I worked for a time in Liptons. I went to college in Birmingham and returned to Redditch to work in N. H. Harris hairdressers in Market Place, above the Singer sewing machine shop, ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1960 by Roger Nettleton

My family moved to The Research Station at Forest Road, Redlynch at the end of the war, and from there to a house in Moot Lane, Downton. My father (Oliver) was in the Royal Artillery during the 1914 - 1918 war, and my eldest ...Read more

A memory of Whiteparish by Raymond Pidgley

I was born on Albert Street in 1936, so I have seen a few changes in Featherstone, I still live on Albert Street, I don't think I could live anywere else! Just a few houses down, nearer Station Lane, Station Lane was a lovely ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1940 by Florence Willis

I was born in Consett at 11 Newmarket Street in June 1933, though my parents were living in Norfolk and later on in Middlesex. I was sent back to live with aunts when the Blitz really got going. I went to the CofE Primary ...Read more

A memory of Consett in 1940 by Malcolm Hutton

As an American, stationed at Aviano AFB, Aviano, Italy, I met a young lady, Rose Graham from Greenock, Scotland. We met At Jeselo beach, while she was on holiday. When she returned to Greenock, we maintained our relationship. We were ...Read more

A memory of Greenock in 1967 by Virgil Martin

My earliest memories of Shutford date back to around 1944, when as an eleven year old schoolboy I spent summer holidays with my grandfather Fred Turner (son of plush weaver Amos Turner), ...Read more

A memory of Shutford in 1944 by Brian Grainge

From 1947 to 1950 my father, V. U. Hinds, was the Station Master at Northfleet Railway Station. We lived in Berwick House, a Victorian "pile" next to the station which had two large mulberry trees in the ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1940 by David Hinds

I was stationed at RAF Coltishall and earned money working weekends at the Heartsease Pub on the Heartsease Estate where the Norwich footballers drank! I met a lovely girl called Joy Collings who lived in Portersfield Road, and fell ...Read more

A memory of Norwich in 1967 by John Stroud

I was in the Parachute section at Heyford until 1950 when I left the RAF, as an ageing wrinkly my memories are not that good, But I remember we used to get a battered old coach at a weekend ( Smiths Coaches)( I ...Read more

A memory of Upper Heyford in 1950 by John Bond

It was a happy childhood, I was born in Etwall in 1954 and our council house in Windmill Road is still our family home. Some of my fondest memories are the simple pleasures of life as a young lad in the 1950/60s. Always keen to get home ...Read more

A memory of Etwall in 1963 by Vince Cooper