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From this picture - you can see where a lot of the terraced houses in Cwmamman Road got their bulding material from!! Those terraced houses will probably last until doomsday - solid and well built, with Welsh slate roofs... many ...Read more

A memory of Glanaman in 1947 by xpara

My grandparents lived in Abergavenny since 1934 in a beautiful dressed stone house called Maisemore in Albany Road, and every summer after the war my family and I went to stay with them for a month, that is, until my ...Read more

A memory of Llanwenarth in 1949 by Diana Dioszeghy

I don't know a lot about Blyth, Northumberland, only that for some strange reason I visited an awful lot during my life but thought nothing of it. My current fiancee and I would sit for long periods on the old docks at the ...Read more

A memory of Blyth in 1930 by Alan Bull

I was born at Vincent Terrace in my grandmother's house in 1949, opposite the pit. Have some happy memories of Thurnscoe, my grandad always went to the {Corrie} for a drink on Sunday afternoon, I still have his membership card as a ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe in 1957 by Joy Calderbank

The building on the right with the telephone box outside was the post office and store run by a lady called Mrs Locker. I used to deliver the Liverpool Echo to the Fox and hounds and most of the houses in the village. I still try and visit ...Read more

A memory of Barnston in 1956 by Rob Kaberry

During the 1960s while stationed at RAF Bentwaters I, with my family, lived at #6 Broad Road, in Wickham Market. Our landlord was Richard Upson, who with his family lived on one side of the house and we occupied the other side. Our ...Read more

A memory of Wickham Market in 1961 by Rick Henry

This the view one saw when arriving in Durham by train from Kings Cross, but nowadays most of the little houses between the station and the city have vanished. The heart of the city lies in a horseshoe-shaped bend in the River Wear, ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1956 by Diana Dioszeghy

While at University my daily walk led me up Dun Cow Lane, on the left of this photo. In 1956 the railings in front of the houses had all disappeared. The ancient church of St.Mary-le-Bow was built of sandstone, and as it stood on a ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1956 by Diana Dioszeghy

This public house was built in 1805 and refurbished in June 2007. It is listed by English Heritage at this link: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=&id=298105

A memory of Horsham by M

Some time ago I read with great interest in a local paper that the pool at Arley had been restored.   My formative years were happily spent at Green Lodge on the green were I was born in 1932.  My father lived there for over ...Read more

A memory of Arley by Peter Astles