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Being Con's older brother, my memories go back a bit further, having started school about the day war was declared, going to the village school, with Miss Burling(?) - rumour had it that she changed the spelling of her name ...Read more

A memory of Figheldean in 1940 by William(Bill) Evans

I moved to Ormskirk in the 1960s from St Helens. My name was then Whitehead - one not to be forgotten! I remember Mr Henderson, he was a gentle man. I loved my class teacher Mrs Sykes, she read lovely stories at the end of each ...Read more

A memory of Ormskirk in 1965 by Kathryn Brady

My mother Mary Burghall (married name Davies) was born in Chester as were three other generations which I have traced back to 1700s. My mother remembers well swimming in the Dee. She and her friends would walk across the medows ...Read more

A memory of Chester in 1940 by Lynn Mace

Ledsham station was on the Hooton - Chester line. On the railway bridge at the end of Ledsham Road you can still see the glazed tiles that were part of the interior of the entrance building. The 'Cheshire Yeoman' across the road ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Mike Day

I visited St Peter's in August 1976 as part of a search for traces of my ancestors, the De Vauxs of Adlington, French Hugenots who first settled from France, in 1630. They became Yeomen farmers on the Leghs Adlington estate and ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury in 1976 by James Logan Bell

I have many memories associated with this church in as much as it was where I went to Sunday School and my brother James was an Altar Boy and chorister. During the war years my mum ran the "Castrees" fish and chip shop in the market ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1941 by Clifford Wilson

l lived in Chester Place with the little veg shop on the corner. Across the road was another street (I don't know what this was called), it had a undetakers tucked away in the corner. We would hang the washing out across the road, l ...Read more

A memory of Beeston in 1961 by mrssunnyview

I have nothing but fond memories of my time at Whittlebury,okay if you were expecting to advance to Oxbridge,forget it but it did teach you to fight your'e own battles and make your own bed.I had a head start I suppose ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1957 by Michael Gee

Remember being at a school in South Manchester called, Egerton, (where kids from Moss Side, Rusholme etc hailed from) and often, we'd be packed off, and taken to various parts of Cheshire to sniff with awe at freshly cut ...Read more

A memory of Delamere by itrose949

Hi I was born at Chester Nursing Home - 11 Stanley Place, Chester in April 1943. I am wondering what happened to the Nursing Home and if anyone can give me a some history and photograph of the building it was situated in, I left the UK in ...Read more

A memory of Chester by jane-wagner