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I'm not prepared to reveal my real name online, however I was a child during the 70's the duration of which was spent in Warnham. This house belonged to some old dear I met only a couple of times, she was housebound and ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1977 by Canis Fortunatus

having lived in the village for most of my childhood I have lots of memories both good and bad things like having a close community spirit where all the children were known and we were always safe, but then there was useless ...Read more

A memory of Yorkletts in 1987 by Andrew Arthurton

I was born in the third house along on this photo and I like to think that the child in the photo next to the telegraph pole is in fact me. My Mum and Dad had six of us children and quite often my Mother would be looking after an elderly ...Read more

A memory of Othery in 1955 by Marilyn Kick

From Berwick Road School, several classes would be assembled in a long line two by two and walk the half mile or so along Heath Lane to the recreation ground, or the Rec as it was called, for school games. We would pass the houses of ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by Chris Bennion

My younger brother Russell and I grew up on Coniston Road in Stretford and one of my earliest memories was of going down to the canal armed with pickle jars that had breathing holes stabbed into the lid (a fork from mums kitchen was ...Read more

A memory of Stretford in 1971 by Darren Crumbleholme

A party was held on Riverhall street to celebrate the Queens Coronation. It poured down with rain and the girls went somewhere under cover, I think the boys stayed in the rain. Played many games and took part in races.  My sister was a ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1953 by Shelagh Ann Collins

By the 1940s the Grammar School had been rebuilt in Tenterden Street. The building in the photograph became The Wylde Clinic which was the centre for mothers and babies and of course housed the 'dreaded' school dentist. My younger ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1940 by Janet Robinson

This memory is from the year of the Coronation (1953), I was 10 then and the street parties were on, we had ours in Spencers Steel Works canteen and we got a Coronation mug. We went to sleep by the sound of the steam hammer at ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

It seems this is the first memory to be posted. My grandparents (Florence and Max Vetterlein) had the Wheatsheaf pub for about six years to 1957. They were tenants of the brewers Charringtons. There was ...Read more

A memory of Little Burstead in 1953 by Bruce Bagley

Back in 1976 I moved away from home to work as a photographic salesman at Debenhams in Great Yarmouth. I also helped out at the Norwich branch. I found a 'home from home' at Pavilion Road in Gorleston with ...Read more

A memory of Great Yarmouth in 1976 by Stephen Smith