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From 1975-1985 approx, when we were kids from Dalry we lived in the estate below Blair House about 1 mile from main entrance,The Blair Scheme. Myself and a few lads and girls from there used to go up there walking at evenings ...Read more

A memory of Dalry in 1975 by Nick Walker

James and Letty Waters, both born about 1811, are my great, great, great grandparents. In the 1841 census Letty is recorded as living in Wickham St Paul with 5 children, one of whom was ...Read more

A memory of Wickham St Paul by Joanne Waters

I grew up in Croesyceiliog at Raglan Court next to the playing fields and I went to Abyschan Grammer School. There was no bypass road then, and the railway was still was bringing coal from the valleys down to the docks in ...Read more

A memory of Cwmbran in 1969 by Valerie Barton

My mother and I came to live with Harry and Rose Marner (my mother's parents) when my father was "called up" and it was decided that Tonbridge was not as safe. Grandad was the lock keeper at the time and mother ...Read more

A memory of Shiplake by Jon Polden

I was born in Catforth. We lived at Lilac Cottage next to the shop. My parents were Ruth and Frank Carter. Dad worked at Barons as a delivery driver. I have an older sister called Rebecca and an older brother called Roger. I ...Read more

A memory of Catforth in 1961 by Sallie Jones

I was born here in 1939, three weeks before the outbreak of war. We lived at Hilltop a bungalow built for my parents in 1937. There was no electricity until 1952 although we had mains water. The road outside was only ...Read more

A memory of Blissford in 1945 by Nevile Chalke

I went to the Central School (by the A97 where the Priests Water burn joins the River Bogie) at Bridgend. Left in mid-1954 when my parents moved from Dunscroft Cottage at Dunscroft Farm, down to Somerset in England. Boy - what ...Read more

A memory of Huntly in 1953 by Ian Aitken Kemp

What a wonderful childhood, free playing with unlimited access to the downs and salisbury plain, with the exception of the land warden that is, Playing with Andy John and Shamus till we dropped....what fun

A memory of Everleigh in 1965 by Robert Huish

My family moved to Watford in 1964 when I was 6-years-old. We moved down from Northumberland via the west of London. I finally moved away from Watford permanently in 1989. We lived in a flat above a shop on the busy St Albans ...Read more

A memory of Watford by Ian Marshall

Hi there everyone that went to the St Joseph's Convent School. Myself, my brother and sister all went there between the mid 1950s to early 1960s (myself), 1958 to 1963. I can remember all the names mentioned by ...Read more

A memory of Monks Kirby in 1958 by David Waudby