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As a child in the late 1950s, I remember catching the trackless trolley bus in St. Sepulchre Gate, we lived on Beckett Road at the time, and caught the bus for home outside Hodgeson and Hepworths (Grocers), which was later ...Read more

A memory of Doncaster in 1959 by Eileen Robinson

Well, I did visit Clements Hall last spring/summer 2011, after not seeing C.H in about fifty years ago. We parked at the keep fit-gym club and as soon as I got out of the car I turned around and saw the the playing field, known then as the ...Read more

A memory of Hockley in 1960 by Christine Breedon

I was born in 1949, soon after my parents had moved into 36 Tait Avenue, one of the first Council Houses to be built at Hill Top, New Edlington. I lived there until 1963 shortly before the Comprehensive School was built on farmland ...Read more

A memory of New Edlington in 1949 by Val Brady

There at the time when Cawthorne was a tour operator and whether it was coincidence or not the tour operator was called Harry Cawthorne coach tours. I do believe that they were an established firm; it could well be that the village was ...Read more

A memory of Gawber in 1952 by Roland Mitchell

I was only a few months old when our family moved to 122 Marsala Road, Ladywell in 1949. I was ten years of age when we moved from Ladywell to Dartford in August 1959 but there are many different and varied things ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1958 by Tony Brown

I was born at Middle Farm on Feb 27th,1949. My dad was Roy Nutter and my mum was Betty Nutter, my folks came down from Lancs after the war, my mum's brother, Fred Winnard, also lived nearby at Kinsham. I think the farmer was ...Read more

A memory of Pamington in 1949 by Ann Wilkinson

Further to my memories I spoke of before, I can remember games we used to play like split the kipper, tally ho, blonk, and a lot more. The summer months were great, we would go over the moors and spend all day over there, if we ...Read more

A memory of Thornley by Michael Mccoy

I played tenor sax with The Dukes in the late 1950s. Tom Easton played drums, Bill Young played bass guitar, Alec Hutchieson rhythm guitar and the fabulous John Fairgreive lead guitar with Willie Findleyson ...Read more

A memory of Bonnyrigg in 1956 by William Bryce

I have some lovely memories of staying with my auntie Madge Dale in Adolphus Street in Whitburn in the 1960s with my mum and dad. As a small child I used to sleep in a tiny attic bedroom where my mum Doris Goodall (who ...Read more

A memory of South Shields by Christine Warwick

I understand my father's parents were farmers in Cold Hiendley. There was a large family and my father was born there in 1879. I would like to visit one day and to find the place where this family lived. ...Read more

A memory of Cold Hiendley in 1860 by Kathleen Mason