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As I was living in Rumwell,I attended the Bishops Hull school, about 2.5 miles away, We Walked there and back every school day. My local friendS were called Graeme Baker, David Rollinson, Marigold Swain. We got to know all ...Read more

A memory of Rumwell in 1943 by John Naylor

I remember well the school, the huge playing field and the long walk there and back, sometimes having to wait for the cows to get out of the way. I still have a school photo of the pupils and the teachers. I lived in a ...Read more

A memory of Upper Wield in 1930 by James Brain

To me the first eleven years of my life, growing up in Quarry Bank, was the most enjoyable. I was born Kenneth Graham Sewell, on the 26th January 1947, at 59 Saltwells Road, now renamed White City, and the whole country was in the ...Read more

A memory of Quarry Bank in 1947 by Ken Sewell

Ahh the memories. I was born at 22 Irish Quarter South,home of my Grandfather, Arthur Bamford, a house that stood at the top of the coal quay, pulled down in 1949, a garage stands there now. Caught many a mackeral off the end of the ...Read more

A memory of Carrickfergus by Hugh Mc Neill

This is were I grew up in Craigentinny in Edinburgh. I went to Christmas parties here when I was really young, I also went to big picnics from here because my Mum went to the guild here or went to play dominos and they held ...Read more

A memory of Edinburgh in 1953 by Cath Tuff

I was brought to Luton, 219 Ashcroft Rd when I was four years old. the cottage we lived in was part of Farmer Holdstocks farm, it was origanally the Cowmans cottage. It was here that my Dad , Fred Chater and Mum Violet, raised ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Sandy Mc Dowell

I lived in Llanharry but most of my unts and uncles lived in Pontyclun. I remember working with Chas Freegard delivering fruit and veg to houses from Pontyclun to Brynsadler, Talygarn Miskin and Hensol Castle. He had a ...Read more

A memory of Pontyclun in 1952 by Ivor Mathias

Looking at this picture reminded me of days we spent hiring a boat from Butlers boat house and going up the river to Walton-on-Thames. Good old days, won't see them again.

A memory of Weybridge in 1955 by Alan Palmer

We moved into School Street when I was nine, along with my two sisters Norma and Iris and our parents Mary and Norman Cook. My father was a lead glazer at Reed Millicans on Team Valley. At the Derwentwater Road end of School ...Read more

A memory of Bensham in 1958 by Linda Boss

I was looking after two elderly residents and well known personage locally when alive, Mr Bert Munday and a "young" lady Mrs Hargreaves chatting away about their holidays when they used to ...Read more

A memory of Bognor Regis in 1930 by Jean Hitchcock