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A travelling fair each summer here was both a delight and a way to earn a few shillings when the fair ended. I would help dismantle the rides and stalls, working hard from morning to evening for about five shillings ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1947 by Philip Harfleet

This is what Dad had to say when I emailed him this site and the photos from 1955. Dad lived in Oakley from childhood until 1987, when as a family we moved to Adelaide Australia. I myself lived in the village from ...Read more

A memory of Oakley in 1955 by Gary Dean

In this year I was 5 years old, and just starting school in the church hall in Gore Road, which is the road in which I also grew up. I remember Burnham as a small, close-knit community, we went to church every Sunday, it was ...Read more

A memory of Burnham in 1962 by Lucinda Tabram

I, along with many schoolchildren who attended Dursley Church of England school in 1955 entered the St. James churchyard through these gates on the way to school five days a week. My memories of the churchyard are of the rose ...Read more

A memory of Dursley in 1955 by Janet Pfenning

When I was at school I did the history of Loftus. The market place was used for the market stalls, I think that it should be like that again. Bring back the meaning of Loftus market place - if anyone agrees let people know. Even if the ...Read more

A memory of Loftus by Susan Holt

I remember fishing here with our mini bottles. Catching minows with wine bottles with the bottom knocked out ( hard to find ). Remember once being trapped under these arches with the river rising and being surrounded by the cows ...Read more

A memory of Shipston-on-Stour in 1960 by Michael Bailey

The shop at the top left (now the Kebab Shop) was, I think, Wards the Greengrocers, the second shop down was Graingers a card and toy shop, later a pet shop (now Pendley Estate Agents).  (Thanks to Rodney Grainger for the ...Read more

A memory of Bovingdon by Anne Broomhead

Once the time had come for blackberry picking and whimberry picking, my lovely Uncle Fred took us down the valley roads, to get picking, ready for those lovely pies my grandmother would make. We would climb up beside these waterfalls, ...Read more

A memory of Brynmawr in 1953 by Jackie Haynes

I would travel to Tredegar to go to the bigger shops, bigger than Brynmawr. I loved the fashions of the 60's, and sometimes could get what I liked in Tredegar. It is just a small town but I had good times there. I especially liked ...Read more

A memory of Tredegar by Jackie Haynes

Many many many, great holidays here. A very nice village. Sadly this place has now been knocked down and replaced with houses.

A memory of Rhosneigr in 1977 by Malcolm Lewsley