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My husband's grandparents Alexander and Jane Gillespie are buried at Barhol Chapel, Aberdeenshire. Alexander died on 20 January 1940. We have a photograph of their gravestone there.

A memory of Barthol Chapel in 1940 by Carol Keith

Please forgive the spelling as I have a degenerative problem with my left eye. I have been trying to write a tale for my grand kids, What I know is that my grandmother moved from London Islington, with several kids, to Birmingham ...Read more

A memory of Alum Rock by Donald Butler

Pontefract a place I call home, my early years were spent Carleton Home's, it would be 58 years before I saw my real Mum Minne Martin from Castleford. from off the West wood Est. in Cutsyke. I was adopted ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract by michaelscorgie7

Wow, these photographs have brought back so many happy memories larking around Barn Hill in the mid 50's with a group of similar aged youngsters. It did help living a few streets away. We also had several attempts at carol singing up ...Read more

A memory of Wembley Park in 1953

Yes, I always shopped here ,as I only lived just up the road on barn hill. I was newly married in 1958 and lived there until1968 .Now live in Wales!! So many memories , as this part of London was my life. Worked in Mayfair for a long time, ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by ghesketh13

I was born in 1941 in the Maternity Home in Honeypot Lane. We lived at 595 Kenton Road just opposite the Church where we went to Sunday School and Brownies. There was a garage on the corner, opposite a row of shops and waste ground ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by tara1999

My grandparents (McNaught) lived in Henrietta Street, and my parents & I stayed with them for many holidays in the 60s and 70s. An uncle & aunt lived in George Street - they were retired teachers from Barrhill school. Another aunt ...Read more

A memory of Girvan by kennethcockburn

Maybank was a large house, formerly a doctor's surgery, situated off St Anne's Road, in Aigburth. I was in "digs" there with the Jones family (Ron & Nell and their children Peter & Helen) in the 1960's. I met Peter at Cardiff ...Read more

A memory of Aigburth in 1964 by David Lougher

Myself and friends used the pond and Barn Hill a lot in the early fifties. I remember the row of poplar trees running up to the pond from Fryent Way. We mostly seemed to use the Kingsbury side of the Hill for our various ...Read more

A memory of Wembley Park in 1951

Sadly The Waggon and Horses has been demolished. Controversy surrounds the old water pump which was outside and which mysteriously disappeared. The Waggon was my local for many years. I brought up in Berwick Avenue ...Read more

A memory of Hayes by Simon White