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My greatest memory was the summer evenings during the 1976 heat wave playing 123 & in in Manor Close. I spent many an evening pulling the pines from my clothes having hidden in the conifurs outside 12 priors Hill. We were never board ...Read more

A memory of Wroughton by davebracken364

My name is David and I holidayed in Tighnabruaich in 2 of the above years with my Mum,Dad and older brother(all deceased now).I was around 10 years old and remember the trip we had from Edinburgh-train to Glasgow Central, train to ...Read more

A memory of Tighnabruaich by torphin47

My Family have strong connections to Grazeley Village i always had a Happy Childhood this Village seems to forgotton in alot of Stories but it is Lovely little Village when i was Growing up and it as a alot of History to it ...Read more

A memory of Grazeley by Gillian Robinson

Moved to Nailsea in 1961 as a newly wed.My wife Anne and Mother in Law Marjorie converted Mr Freeths(I think ) vegetable shop at west end into a ladies hairdresser 'Anne Marie'.Well remember PC Genge standing on the corner in the middle of ...Read more

A memory of Nailsea in 1961 by David Jay

At a guess! My visits to Shepton mallet were infrequent as I lived near Bristol as a child. But loved coming to see my Grandmother at no 1 Barren Down (mrs E A Crook)A school was at the back of her house, I ...Read more

A memory of Shepton Mallet in 1947

We lived at No1 North Street, it's not there anymore. It was quite a steep street and when it snowed (we seemed to get snow every year in those days) we would get out the sledges and spend the evening and weekends zooming down ...Read more

A memory of Farsley in 1950 by Robert Dowgill

Preedys was the main tobacconist in Wolverhampton and the Express Cafe at the bottom of Queen Street is where I used to go for dinner on a Saturday after working the Minors matinee film at the ABC cinema in Garrick street. There used ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town in 1960 by Gordon Ford

I was born in 1931 in Bollingbroke Nursing Home and lived in Belleville Road next to Belleville Road School. Our house was requisitioned and knocked down to enlarge the school and so we moved to Hayes, Middlesex, in 1937, ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1930 by Marie Cull

I used to live as a child in LLangynwyd in Heol Cadrawd next door but one to the school house my maiden name was John. I realise now what a wondeful childhood I had and so much freedom. I rember Mr Morris as headmaster, Miss Brook who ...Read more

A memory of Llangynwyd in 1948 by Suzanne Prinz

I believe everyone who lived in Crouch End (also Muswell Hill) during the period 1941-71 were very lucky as the area offered virtually everything one would ever wish for. In fact, although I now live in Norfolk I retain very ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End in 1941 by Malcolm Cook