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Attended Houghton Road Junior School, then in 1944 the Hill School. Lived 45 Windsor Street. Memories going to school eating breakfast of bread and dripping, transporting a ton of coal from the street to the coal house at ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe by Dennis Flavell

I lived at 136 Meadway, out of the back door, down the garden and on to fields. My Aunty Lucy never locked the door when we went to shop, you could trust people then, happy days.

A memory of Streethouse in 1960 by Michael Brown

I attended Downshall Infants, Junior and Seniors; not the happiest of days for me. I remember being treated quite badly by Mrs Mansell in junior school who really had it in for me because my mother was a bit of a ...Read more

A memory of Seven Kings

One of my earliest memories of school in Easington is of Miss Nicholson telling my mother, Alice Stephenson, nee Griffiths, that she would look out for me when I started at Easington Infants. Actually, I was never in her ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery by Carol Donald

I was in the first intake of the newly built Chippenham Grammar School. When we arrived for our first day there were no chairs, as war had just been declared and all transport had been commandeered for the movement of ...Read more

A memory of Chippenham in 1930 by Joyce Holmes

My name is Michael Mancey. In 1949, when I was four years old, my parents, youngster sister and I, moved to a brand new council house in Windsor Road. Although the postal address was Hounslow West, it was in reality ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1950 by Michael Mancey

I lived in Camden Park Road back in the 1990's and I read Mr Arthur Battle's book, Edwardian Chislehurst, when I was living there. He was 90 when he wrote it, and it was published in 1988. It was fascinating to read his ...Read more

A memory of Chislehurst by Andrew Trent

It is now 41 years since I resided in Rothley, and there is not one day that passes that I don't think about it. Recently I found photographs on an 'Old Rothley' website, as I was browsing I found a photograph of my parents standing ...Read more

A memory of Rothley by Sandie Lee

Every year from 1968 to 1975 we used to make the annual pilgrimage from our home in Saddleworth near Huddersfield to the Casle Rock. In the early days, before the motorway was built, it used to take us two days with an ...Read more

A memory of Mortehoe in 1970 by David Haigh

I was astonished to see today in Google (Streetview) the name 'A.T. Roberts' on the fascia of a company building close to Bushey Station. I was a 16-year-old apprentice there in 1941, with Mr A T Roberts as my boss ...Read more

A memory of Bushey in 1941