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John Williams married Amelia Baldwin born Hardwich, Abergavenny 11 March1853 (Llanfoist). They moved to Wigan, Lancashire, between 1875 and 1880 were my Grandmother Emily was born and her sister Adeline. ...Read more

A memory of Blaenavon by Brian Freeman

I was a pupil at the Paston Grammar School from 1936-42. It was a wonderful school where boys from all over N.E. Norfolk made many friends so that when they left school and started work in the area, they co-operated in so ...Read more

A memory of North Walsham by revpnicholson

My Grandparents Jack and Edna Williams ran The Blue Cap Hotel in Sandiway during my youth and my fondest memories are there, of Rooms 6 and 7, which would be allocated to my sister and I during our stays. There were garages out in ...Read more

A memory of Sandiway in 1964 by Anita Healey

You can see Penpont Church right in the center of this photo. Every day of my young life growing up I saw Penpont church. It was very much the middle of the village. Looking north and slightly east you can see the farmhouse ...Read more

A memory of Penpont by Joan Simpson

I was born at 12 Ashwood Avenue on Peel Brow estate Ramsbottom in 1952. My father after being demobbed from the eighth army in 1945 had always and continued to work in cotton mills. In 1960 our ...Read more

A memory of Stubbins by david

During World War Two I was evacuated from London to various locations three times, the last of these was Bury, in Lancashire. My older brother and I stayed with two families sharing a house at 16 Swallow Drive ...Read more

A memory of Bury by Tom Ware

1 lived in Erith until 1970 born in 1932 at 7 Athol road off of Deluci road which is next to the old Tivoli cinema we move there in 1934 from west street we had incenderies drop on our house in 1942 my father put ...Read more

A memory of Erith by george28532

I was born in Burslem and lived on Waterloo Road across from Macintyres pottery from 1949 until 1957 when we moved to Lancashire. Macintyres had a clock tower and we would check it in the morning before leaving for school. I began school at ...Read more

A memory of Burslem by smlowe

When I went to Holy Trinity School in the 1950.s the school class was49 children 1 teacher. when we had a different subject we just changed books. one of the highlights of school was going to ferry hut where we had a drawing ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn by dunroaming2010

I started school in September 1945 at Farnworth C of E School in Pit Lane. When I started school my dad worked at the Co Op as "first hand" in various shops in Widnes. Our headmaster was Mr. Turton and he was an ...Read more

A memory of Widnes by nwsandland