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I went to Dukes House Wood camp school at Easter of 1968. A whole group of us from the Boys' Grammar School in Gateshead (Avenue Road) went there. Most of us were in Oaks dormitory. I remember that huge tree growing in the middle of ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1968 by Al Neal

Dear old Kiddy. My youth and teenage years during the late 1950s and early 1960' spent here. I remember a busy medium sized market town. Full employment was provided by the numerious carpet factories, Adams, Brintons, ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1960 by Malcolm Knowles

I believe the town got its name from the merging of the rivers Mole, Ember & Thames (forming the shape of an eye - hence 'Moles Eye'. I was born at the Bearsted hospital in Hampton in 1949 and from Kingston in 1951 came to ...Read more

A memory of West Molesey in 1860 by Brian Thomas

I was at the Royal Hospital for a few months in 1971, a wonderful memory rekindled due to working on the Wirral lately...38 years since I was there but I remembered just where it was while passing through Heswall. I remember Nurse Hessian ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1972 by Brian Jones

Very happy memories of this building, the publicans Arthur and Sarah Myerscough were my aunt and uncle. I lived there for a number of years then moved into Broad Street . The cellars were a delight, arched ceilings all in old ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1954 by Michael Smith

I was at Bulphan School 1948 to 1954-55 and well remember my days at school with Daphney Thomas. Maraget Walls, Tess Cross, Pat Cross, Yony Ballard, Maureen Batchford, and Barbara Batchford. Happy days they were too. The teachers were ...Read more

A memory of Bulphan in 1949 by Derek Wright

I was raised in Rosehill, Wallsend and was born at The Green in 1944. We lived at the top of Rose Bank and I went to the Central Infants and Junior Schools then to the Stephenson Memorial Secondary Modern in Howdon. We lived ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by Andrea Pretli

My name is Junior Mayhew and I also went to East Quinton School from early 1973-1975. The boarding school small pupil wise, but had lots of land to play on including two very large fields and an old farming ...Read more

A memory of Seaford in 1973 by Junior Mayhew

I have many memories of the horse-drawn barges on the Basingstoke Canal at the Kings Head boat house and lock. The barges probably started from Aldershot, and on through Surrey. I used to wait for the horse ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by The Frith Memory Archivist

A truly old-fashioned type of ironmonger and household ware store seen here on the immediate right of the picture. My mother, Mrs. Ruby Chandler would have been working here in 1965, as she did for many years both before and ...Read more

A memory of Huntingdon by Barry W J Chandler