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Hi All, one of my memories of Grays old High Street was the café. Walking down the High Street toward the beach, on the left hand side was the cafe, it was called the Green Door and was owned by Bert Herrington. He and ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1960 by John Fautley

My godparents from Hotspur Street were the above family who, I was told, gave a home to my father aged 13, on the death of his father, in the Great War in 1917. My grandfather was Tailor of Tynemouth who paraded grandmother in the ...Read more

A memory of Tynemouth in 1930 by Jo Smart

Mum, Ivy Ironmonger, and her sister, Edie, were evacuated from London during summer of 1944 and I was born on September 19th that year. Mum gave birth in the front bedroom of number 78 Excelsior Sreet, Waunlwyd, one of the ...Read more

A memory of Waun Lwyd in 1944 by David Ironmonger

My memory of Withyham are wonderful. My gandad and gran lived in Balls Green and I would go to stay there in the 50's watching the steam trains from the back bedroom. I remember the water pump in the garden, hops at the end of the ...Read more

A memory of Withyham in 1954 by Pauline Stone

Every Sunday was church day if you attended Styal Open Air School. Dressed in our Sunday Best and given a penny by our house matrons for the church collection box we would walk hand in hand with one of the girls from 'Wendy' ...Read more

A memory of Styal in 1957 by Barry Plant

I was sent to Bridgnorth at the age of 5 from our home in Birmingham to stay with my aunt and uncle (Doris and Arthur Howse) during 1942 due to the bombing in Birmingham. We lived in St Marys Street, about 100 yards down from High ...Read more

A memory of Bridgnorth in 1942 by Keith Macdonald

I was born in the village in 1942 at 61 Stone Row, one of four cottages behind the post office - the post office and village store was owned and run by Mr and Mrs Sargent back then. Alveley was a quiet village and only came to life ...Read more

A memory of Alveley in 1947 by Bill Scriven

I moved to 12a Central Hill in 1966. It was a big house directly opposite the police station, with Woodland Road in between. We lived in a flat there. In its day it must of been a bit of a grand house and I'm wondering if anyone ...Read more

A memory of Upper Norwood in 1965

My Great Grandad Joseph Askew came to Bolton-upon-Dearne around 1876 from Lincolnshire . He worked at the newly opened Wath Main Colliery (where there is now a Golf Course) On doing my family tree I found out the he and his ...Read more

A memory of Bolton Upon Dearne in 1870 by Terry Askew

I was first at Watchfield in 1958 when I attended a Military Course there in "Aerial Delivery". It was the home of 16 Parachute Heavy Drop Coy RAOC and other units involved in Air Supply. In 1962 I was posted there transferring from The ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield in 1958 by David Rowe