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This is a view of the Bathampton Tea Gardens which occupied the old buildings of Bathampton Mill, and the picture is taken from Bathampton Bridge. On the O.S. Somerset sheet XIV Revision of 1930 with additions in 1938. The ...Read more

A memory of Bathampton in 1959 by First Name Last Name

I am entering these memories on behalf of my mother in law - Patricia Ross (nee Bolter) Running to meet Dad, just a young man, in uniform for the first time coming home to show us in ...Read more

A memory of Hammersmith in 1940 by Jane Ross

I remember when I first moved to Aveley, I was 7 years old. My nan lived in the prefabs and my mother, brother and myself moved in with her until they were demolished when I was eight years old. Then we moved into Hall Avenue, most ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1960 by Marina Lewis

I was born at number 11, and was told I did not open my eyes, so Mrs Tyreman baptized me. She had changed from Methodist to Catholic when she married her husband who was a tailor. When the priest came the next morning and blessed me ...Read more

A memory of Loftus in 1930 by Joseph Lavelle

The year is a guess, but I have fond memories of playing in the sand at Ferry Hut, waiting for my dad to go by on his tug boat, when the Manchester ship canal was in its heyday. He would wave to me my sister and mum. The tugs I remember was ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1952 by Clive Bisby

I was at the Castle School in Stanhope from 1975-77, I was in Bewdley House and in Big Raby dorm, to me I have no good memories about the place to be honest. I thought it was an evil place, if the law was then as it is today many of ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1975 by Ian Lambert

I was 28 years old at the time of this photograph, living at Roseworth, with wife, Doris,and daughter, Judith, aged two. Married at St Peter's Church in 1947, with Rev'd J McGill officiating, a 'wartime' wedding ...Read more

A memory of Stockton-on-Tees in 1955 by Ronald Haslock

It must have been 1944. My Dad was in Burma. Mum, my brother and sister and I had been visiting Dads parent(s) in Seaton Road, Whitton. It was very dark as we sat waiting for the No 18 train to take us back to Feltham. Then we ...Read more

A memory of Whitton by Norman Reeves

My wife Elizabeth and I had decided we needed to get to know the west Wales coast as our son David's fiancee Amanda was studying at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. After a number of visits to Aberystwyth ...Read more

A memory of Aberaeron in 2001 by John Howard Norfolk

My sister and I were born in Playhillocks Cottage, Longhaven - me in 1937 and my sister in 1936. When I was about 3 or 4 we moved to a council house in Cruden Bay, Serald Street, where my brother was born. In 1950 we migrated to ...Read more

A memory of Longhaven in 1930 by Maureen Walmsley