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i remember lower swell because it is where i came from i was born 1974 and i lived there with my mum and my brother and nan and gramp till the age of 11 when we moved to stow i went to st marys as did my brother, my mum and my aunt and 2 ...Read more

A memory of Lower Swell by Michelle Taylor

Three generations of my family have lived in Bowdon. One of the small cottages on the left of the picture was my first home. I was Christened and Married at St. Mary's Church. My Great Grandparents, Grandparents, Parents, and my Sister are all buried in the Church yard.

A memory of Bowdon in 1890 by Jan Gardner

as a child growing up in cross street which was just off new st i remember there being a laundry opposite my home and sid perks coal yard was this the bag wash??

A memory of Wednesfield in 1949 by Roy Horden

I went to All Saints School in 1958,cant remember the teachers name, but can remember writing on our blackboards whilst see collected the dinner money and penny bank money.I can remember Miss Simpson and Mr Ireland, no ...Read more

A memory of Stockport by Gail Walker

I lived in Blackley but spent most of my time walking up and down Factory Brew to visit Grandparents,uncles,aunts and cousins in harpurhey.I went alfred street girls school during the years 1950-1954. I loved the ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey by Janice Allison

We must have had the same playground, I and my friends Eric Adams and Victor Gillam, from the builders yard across the road from the war memorial , I lived at 109 Albion st, the Seamans Mission ,I remember it well, the docks , tug boat ...Read more

A memory of Southwick in 1950 by Martin Ellison

As a small child I would be taken to my Gr gr Aunt Ethel Felstead's home at 13 Damgate Street Wymondham. Auntie was my granny's sister and the most giving person you could know. She not only lived in the lovely listed ...Read more

A memory of Wymondham by Anne Parsons

I used to have shorthand lessons with Miss Robinson ( I think I have the name right it was a long time ago) she lived with her sister in a chocolate box cottage which backed onto the church yard. Both the sisters seemed elderly to me then I ...Read more

A memory of Oxted in 1969

Born in the North Mid like most people my age (1931), I lived my first 25 years at Tottenham Hale, at the end of Brograve Rd., facing the Station Green. The green had a nice fence around it before the war when hundreds ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by Peter Mackin

I lived at Twyning Farm at Shuthonger from my birth in October 1926 until 1944, as my father (James L. Brooksbank) owned and lived at this farm (1922-1953), although 1936 - 1944 I was away at boarding-school for much ...Read more

A memory of Shuthonger in 1940 by Ben W L Brooksbank