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I was born and bred in Smethwick, my nan lived on Windmill Lane where i spent most of my time as my mum was a barmaid at the Cape of Good Hope pub opposite the Mitchell and Butlers Brewery, it's now a Macdonalds. Whilst ...Read more

A memory of Smethwick by Angela Narbett

The Stores was run by the redoubtable Joe Holmes who was in fierce competition with Chris Lewin down the lane at the Post Office. In summer the price of local tomatoes reached bargain levels! More photos of Yealand in the ...Read more

A memory of Yealand Redmayne in 1955 by David Gerrard

My family moved to Ashbourne in 1942 when I was 6. I went to school at what must have been the last of the old "Dame" schools run by an elderly lady called Ethel Hunter. The school was at the top of a big house in Church ...Read more

A memory of Ashbourne in 1943

I lived at 4 Fairlands Avenue, Buckhurst Hill. My parents moved there just before the Second World War, and I was born in April 1939. I well remember W.C.French Ltd's yard next to Fairlands Avenue fronting the ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1940 by Richard Moules

My grandparents lived in Mountain Ash at 37 Allen Street, the name of Richard and Ada Parsons. After the harvest had finished in Surrey, we, as children, were always taken to Wales for wonderful holiday. We could climb up the ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash in 1940 by Pamela Storey

I lived at Gastard House from 1953-1967. By that time it had been converted into flats, and we had the ground floor. There were other children there as well, and we had acres of space to play, in spite of part of the gardens being used ...Read more

A memory of Gastard by Kay Millard

I can remember the suppliers of food and the taxi rank on the island at the Clock Tower - their pies were particularly nice and the taxi drivers very friendly. At the same place the freshly loaded coal wagons used to park whilst ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath in 1940 by Peter Lake

I remember Huins shoe shop, and Evesham Street. I worked for a time in Liptons. I went to college in Birmingham and returned to Redditch to work in N. H. Harris hairdressers in Market Place, above the Singer sewing machine shop, ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1960 by Roger Nettleton

74 High Street was the special place I was born into. My lovely Nan (Florrie) and Gransha (Will) were lovely loving grandparents who managed so much in their little 2 up 2 down, they brought a family up there - Mair who ...Read more

A memory of Troedrhiwfuwch in 1951 by Tanya Harris

I was born at Grainthorpe in 1945 at Chapel Hill Cottages to Jim and Ivy Holdsworth Dad was a Geordie who came to the village in 1943 with the Royal Ulster Rifles. My mother was Ivy Loughton and was brought up by her ...Read more

A memory of Grainthorpe