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My Harrison ancestors all came from Cambridgeshire, mostly from the Downham, where they were agricultural laborers and my father, Victor Alfred George Harrison was born in 1914 in Peterborough. His father, George William ...Read more

A memory of West Hendon by edgwaredr

I too have very fond memories of Heatherlea. I remember well the dinner gong and the daily walk to the swings where I seemed to spend hours. Every day seemed to be sunny, which of course it probably wasn't. The treat of the ...Read more

A memory of Allendale Town by b_soulsby

That's how most people outside of the Edith Brough Whickham home referred to me. My sister (Dorothy) and I were transferred from the South Shields home to the Whickham home when I was about 11 years old after I ran ...Read more

A memory of Whickham

What a memory has been stirred!! The Classic cinema. Every Saturday morning for I think it was a shilling and we spent the whole morning there. I was born in 1953 and went to Howard infants and junior school then to South Croydon secondary modern school

A memory of Croydon by brendaveiter

I recall other far more sinister events which took place at number 82 Annesley Mount. I first became aware of these events in 1953 when the Sunday night discussion took on a hushed and serious tone. My ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by michaelpeterpeyton

I was born in White Road in 1951 and went first to the nursery at Grace Road, where I remember a climbing net which was outside on a frame of some kind. It seemed huge. We had little blue camp beds ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook by magfrancis

My roots in Kendal go very deep indeed, my Great Grandfather was James Dawson Garnett who was born there in 1851 on Lake Road and married Elizabeth Sherrin a local girl in 1871. Their son James Langhorn Garnett was my ...Read more

A memory of Kendal by Rob Beilby

Winning the first cup in Millwood history ,the hall Caine shield does anyone remember this ?

A memory of Speke

I was born in 1941, we lived in an old Army hut, opposite 'Burraper' Mill. Strictly speaking this was in Sherborne St. John, being the other side of the Beau Brook and the Iron Bridge, but Bramley was a lot nearer. ...Read more

A memory of Bramley by Chris Williams

I remember me and Shirley ramshaw getting drunk at our house in hedworth lane in our dinner hour from school, also riding brandy Shirley's pony who taught me how to fall of correctly, and getting my ...Read more

A memory of Boldon Colliery in 1880 by Kim Obrien New Crawford