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This photograph shows my father's car reg EDE 3 at the traffic lights in Castle Square. He was William Gywther Thomas, Divisional Highways Surveyor. The reason the car looks as if it has been abandoned was that the traffic ...Read more

A memory of Haverfordwest by Claire Allen

The Silver Lounge makes me remember summer holidays when my mum was working in Collins Cleaners near the traffic lights at Gravel Hill, and I was looked after by my elder brothers and sister. My sister and I would meet Mum outside ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1956 by Annette Benefield

By kind permission of the Lord Ashcombe, the Holy Trinity Junior Boys Club, Wimbledon, camped for four weeks every year on Ranmore Common. Most of us were choirboys, so we augmented St Barnabas's choir for their services twice each ...Read more

A memory of Ranmore Common in 1930 by L. Malcolm Cloutt

I lived in the pre-fabs built a few years after the war, on Strath Crescent. That would have been around 1953. Later, those 'white boxes' were to be demolished, so we moved to new council ...Read more

A memory of Newmilns by Stewart Mc Kinnon

My parents managed the Fox for most of the 1950' and '60's. My love of railways came from the Loco crew who drank there and gave me (unofficial) footplate rides!

A memory of Three Bridges by David Randall

The youth club at Rothwell was a meeting point for us all to have a dance and listen to music, the Searchers, Duane Eddie and Eden Kane come to mind. I also worked at Nickersons as a telephonist when I left school and took over ...Read more

A memory of Rothwell in 1963 by A M

My first visit to Omagh was in the summer of 1962, my mother was taken ill and to ease the burden at home, it was decided that I would go to stay with my father's parents in Omagh. My grannie and granddad lived at 4 Ulster Cottages, ...Read more

A memory of Omagh in 1962 by Phil Baxter

I was introduced to Morris Dancing in 1979 and remember my very first outing to play my piano accordian with the dancers of Whitethorn Morris was in December 1979 outside two pubs. I was a beginner and ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1979 by John Howard Norfolk

We moved to Byfleet as my father Russell Ford worked at Vickers Armstronges. We lived in Hart Road, that's myself being Diana, brother Nigel and sisters Susan and Rosemarie. I attended St Mary's, which was an exprience, our head ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet in 1956 by Diana Campbell

My mother-in-law has just passed away and we found this in her papers. My years at Stanford-le-Hope Laundry. I lived in a village where my mum and family had lived for generations. A signpost at the top of our lane said ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1930