Maps

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Memories

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Leas Cliff Hall

I started my musical career at the Leas Cliff Hall. Worked in Murdoch's music shop at 15 yrs. I was on the beach with mother during WW1 when Tontine Street was bombed - amazing because I asked Mum to stay longer or we could have been one of the 29 casualties.

A memory of Cheriton in 1920 by Richard Roy Douglas

Northern Life

Hello. I did not live in Grangetown but loved the bus ride through it on the way to Redcar for a day out. Leaving South Bank on the right hand side of the road there was a row of houses with grassy front gardens and long paths ...Read more

A memory of Grangetown by Muriel Redd

We Watched The World Go And Come Back From Ww2

I lived with my parents in the right hand side of the white house shown above (almost opposite the W & D bus station) from 1938-57. The house to the left with a hedge around the door was a small ...Read more

A memory of Amesbury in 1940 by Pamela Chaldecott

The Cricket Common

My mum and dad owned York House Cafe and shop which was situated just a few yards to the right of where this picture was taken from. I have many happy memories of growing up in Weybridge. (I would have been 9 when this picture ...Read more

A memory of Weybridge in 1955 by Graham Hagley

Thomas John Jones

Hi Does anyone remember a Thomas John Jones? His father was called William and lived at 7 Greenfield Cottages, Church Street, Bedwas. I only know that they lived at this address in 1935. Thomas would have been in his twenties. They ...Read more

A memory of Bedwas by Lynne Broda

Memories Of Eastwood

I was brought up on Mill Road, Newthorpe. I went to Beauvale School, then Walker Street. I clearly remember walking to school with snow so deep that it covered the top of my wellies. I remember teachers; Mrs West, Mrs Laycock ...Read more

A memory of Awsworth in 1957 by Vicky Burgin

Born 1915

My father, Arthur Harrison Cook, was born in Tynemouth in 1915. He attended Percy Main school and Victoria School. He moved to Grimsby in 1939 to join the police force and became a Chief Inspector. His uncle Harry Wilson lived in Latimer ...Read more

A memory of Percy Main in 1910 by Kathryn Williams

Good Times

Anyone remember Rag Day in Reading? It was the one day of the year when the students of the university used to decorate lorries, in a certain theme and used to go through the streets with music blaring, throwing bags of flour at us kids. I ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1960 by Valerie Hames

Dudley Street

Riding my first motorbike down a crowded Dudley Street.

A memory of Wolverhampton in 1966 by Dave Lawson

Chapel Street General Store

My parents (Ken & Gwen Gardner) bought a small general store on Chapel St, when I was aged 5 in 1969. My memories are lovely and will always be with me. Our next door neighbour was Mr Jim Curtis, always remember him, a ...Read more

A memory of Dawley in 1870 by Julie Pearson

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