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My family the Smiths lived at Pollocks cottages down the Faggs road and when I was born in 1942 we lived there till about 1950 when we moved to the houses opposite where the fire station is now because of the building of the ...Read more

A memory of Bedfont by eunicecherry39

Now aged 70, this week with much interest I visited Nelson for the first time. My name is Nicola Pugh. I was born in London and adopted at the age of 5 months. The documents relating to my adoption were signed at ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by nicolampugh

Does anyone remember Morris Bros, Gents' Outfitters - I THINK must have been in Ealing High Street. I worked there for three summers in the early 70s, walking over from my sister's house in Mayfield Avenue. Mr Morris himself (I suppose a ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by tenterer64

Memories from many years ago. My father David Dickson was the dentist who built the house at 9 Newcastle Street which is where I spent my early years.. After the war we moved to Birkland Villa which we entered from a laneway just ...Read more

A memory of Worksop by chrisdeboer36

I was born in 1941 and lived in Ilmington Road until the age of 7 when we moved down the road to Donnington Road to a house my father (a builder who built a fair amount of Kenton) built during the war. He was told that if ...Read more

A memory of Kenton by pkilmartin

I'm always interested to read memories of Gildersome. I have just visited in October 2018. Just a short visit but it certainly hasn't changed in some respects. The streets are narrower from what I remember but street lane and ...Read more

A memory of Gildersome by katestengl

I came upon this site by chance and it brought back so many memories I thought I would share a few. I was born in Fritzlands Lane No. 151 this was my Grandparents house, at the age of 4 or 5 my Mum and Dad were ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham

There has been a public library in Cannock for many decades. As a child I remember the library being housed in a set of green painted, wooden buildings which stood on High Green next to the Council Offices. These grandiose huts had ...Read more

A memory of Cannock by brucehaycock

Hi, I went to RWS in 1957 but` was only there for two or three terms because I hated the place. My salvation was the friends I made there and the music teacher who was very kind, with whom I had piano lessons. Miss Edmed was the head teacher ...Read more

A memory of Sawbridgeworth by susan.rouse1

I was born in central middlesex hospital in 1949 and grew up in harlesden,my first memory is living above john collier's the tailor at 103a harlesden high street, we lived right up at the top and we used the flat roof at the back as ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by pamfoster59