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I was 9, my brother about 12, and my sister was 6, and we lived with our parents in a huge maisonette in Hamlet Court Road. That winter ('63) it snowed and snowed and was freezing for weeks. Our dad and his friend, who lived ...Read more

A memory of Westcliff-on-Sea in 1963 by Sharon Hunter

I lived in Mossband and went to Gretna Township School, later known as Gretna High. Times were hard but we enjoed our time there and kept ourselves occupied potato picking in Rockliffe and Todhills, rose hip collecting, and I ...Read more

A memory of Mossband Ho in 1951 by Francess Jones Formally Daugh

I believe the Watney’s pub on the left of the picture was The Red Lion. In 1962 I was a lad of sixteen and worked at Blundells Shoe Shop. From the photograph this would have been behind the cameraman. I live in America now and ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1962 by Barry Hawgood

My sister and I were evacuated to St Merryn in 1940. I was aged 6 and my sister aged 11. We lived in Bermondsey, London. I shall always remember our first night in St Merryn. We were sitting in the School Hall,and were the ...Read more

A memory of St Merryn in 1940 by Bill Killick

I came to Sedgley aged ten, having been born in the dock area of Dudley. At five we moved to Wolverhampton. Finally the family moved to the new houses down Cotwallend Road overlooking the Dingle. The 1962/63 winter was a real bad one and even ...Read more

A memory of Sedgley in 1963

My family first came to live in Studwell Lodge, which they bought from the Bruce family,  when my father retired from farming in Berkshire at the age of fifty five. It was then 1959 and I, as a ...Read more

A memory of Droxford in 1960 by Charles Skipwith

I moved to Hengoed when I was 6 years old. I lived in Hawthorn Avenue when the houses were first built. The first winter there was very bad, I have not seen a winter like it since, not in Hengoed anyway. It was a close-knit community ...Read more

A memory of Hengoed in 1948 by Graham Sanders

Burton is a really peaceful place. It's covered in hills and forests and has a really good community. It has a church, a shop, a community centre and a school. I lived in number 8 Low Street for about 8 years ...Read more

A memory of Burton in Lonsdale in 2007

I was born in the 1950s but, despite having memories of happy times spent in the old bus station in the late 1960s, I would class the 1970s as more my era. Us lasses would sport shaggy-cut hairstyles, mini-skirts, hot pants and platform ...Read more

A memory of Consett by Maria Henderson

I came across this site while searching history. I have a story about Fylingdales. I was 19 and posted to a place called Goldsborough and we travelled daily to Fylingdales to clear uxb ordinance. Our vehicles were recognised ...Read more

A memory of Fylingdales Moor in 1961 by Geoffrey Powell