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My memories start around 1946 and go on 'forever' - but the years I want to mention here are those of my Cobridge schooldays and the Burslem connection to those schooldays. I lived on the ...Read more

A memory of Burslem in 1946 by Edward Penning

We used to visit Sunderland when I was a child. Laurel Cottage had an orchard full of daffodils in spring, and whenever I hear Wordsworth's poem I'm taken straight back to the sight of all those daffodils on ...Read more

A memory of Sunderland in 1952 by Sheila Mc Cann

I remember the primary school and the little banks behind it which seemed huge to us then! We used to go mussel picking on the rocks and walk along the downs with buttercups and daisies, sadly now much reduced due to soil erosion. The ...Read more

A memory of Bude in 1956 by Sheila Mc Cann

I was baptised in the Parish Church just beyond the trees on the left. My sister-in-law lived in the cottage on the far right - almost next to the Vicarage garden. In the late 40's and 50's I used to walk to Church Street from ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1940 by Brian Tungate

Ths is the memory of my cousin, Audrey, aged 79. We were talking yesterday and she told me how, with her mother, she had travelled from Lancashire to see her father who was stationed in the area. They had to get permission to travel ...Read more

A memory of Dibden Purlieu in 1943 by Jean Thomasson

I was lucky enough to be looked after by the warden of Tilgate Forest and his wife whom I referred to as Aunty and Uncle Bill. Bill Wratten was employed by Crawley Council as warden and lived in a Nissen hut with his wife Emily; known ...Read more

A memory of Crawley in 1958 by Lyta Nulty

I have lived all my life in Altricham and I am thinking that these houses were opposite the library in Altrincham, that used to be next to the Stamford Hall. I can't remember the name of the road but these cottages had ...Read more

A memory of Altrincham in 1968

Although I moved from Prestbury to Gloucester in 1966 when I got married, then to Somerset in 1967. Prestbury has always held a special place in my heart, I always call it my home. I lived in a small cottage in ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury by Pat Procter

I was born in Farnham, actually Lavender Cottage, Rowledge, a nursing home I believe, in 1944 and my family lived at Thorndhu (now no. 8 I think) Broomleaf Road backing onto the railway line. My mother and brother lived there during ...Read more

A memory of Farnham in 1944 by Wendy Cowen

My father, Leslie Blunden Gains, was born in 1909 (died 1987 in Redhill) and brought up by his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Blunden in Compton at Hillside Cottage. This was the address given on my ...Read more

A memory of Compton in 1900 by Wendy Cowen