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I lived in Thornton Rd, went to school at Old Cenral, Camp Rd, used to walk passed the pond to school, in the thick smog's we would have got lost if we didn't hold hands. My friends and I had many happy years playing on the ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1948 by Janet Robson

A cracking wee place, born in Edingburgh, but used to visit a pal of my brother's Richard (Tich Duncan) his sister Scoots is still in the village, I liked nitten so much I bought a house there?, 13 years now, my kids have all ...Read more

A memory of Newtongrange in 1986 by Chris English

Am trying to piece together my life while in England. I was sent to some kind of institution when I was a few months old, probably in 1945/46. I believe that place was in the North of England. Then my mother ...Read more

A memory of Heston in 1949 by Paul Langseth

My goodness, such a long time ago. I lived in Aberdour from birth till I was 6 years old...way back in the early 50s. I remember, mostly through photographs, the present Queen's coronation; there was a fancy dress competition and I was ...Read more

A memory of New Aberdour in 1953 by Ishbel Byrne

My mum grew up in a house called Fernlea in West Ashling. She was the youngest of 8 children by Ron and Frances Marsh. Frances was also known as Cissy and was a Kennett - who had been in West Ashling when she was a child. ...Read more

A memory of West Ashling in 1890 by Liz Purkiss

I was born in Walker 1946 to be accurate. They were slums even though the women did their best to keep them clean and rodent free. I remember my mum doing the washing in the wash-house in the back yard, she had to start a ...Read more

A memory of Byker in 1959 by Jacqueline Pilgrim

I lived in the station house on Cheadle station. Can't remember it as I left when I was two. I do remember going to visit the people who lived in the cottages on the other platform. I believe the Station house is now a pub.

A memory of Cheadle by Irene Rawlinson

These memories have been contributed by Myra Greer. In 1947, when I was 7, my mother and I moved from Salisbury in Wiltshire where my father was stationed at RAF Boscombe Down, to near Llanfarian, where my grandparents had ...Read more

A memory of Llanfarian in 1947

Throughout the first half of the 1950's I would spend every school holiday at Linton, with my maternal grandparents. Initially my mum would accompany me from our home in Trumpington to Drummer Street bus station, where ...Read more

A memory of Linton in 1952 by Brian Goodliffe

My auntie and uncle, Ted and Kitty, lived in New Kyo in the sixties. Uncle Ted was the caretaker for (I think it was) the Miners Institute and they lived in a house next door. There was also some connection with a sewing factory. They had a ...Read more

A memory of New Kyo in 1967 by Hilary Clough