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I recall the mayor of Choppington being a short, rotund man of about 50 years. He was balding and had a gruff voice. He hated children and outlawed toys. Things became so horrible that he threatened to jail anyone ...Read more

A memory of Choppington by Richard Hell

I was born and brought up in the Milton. Lived at 2 Milton Rows. I can remember going to Crossshill School. Miss Foote and Miss Page were two of the teachers. I remember well the Miners Galas, the potato picking, and what ...Read more

A memory of Crosshill in 1940 by Anne Wright

A large wooden hall was built on land behind Mr and Mrs Chrime's house in Milton Road and we had a street party for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. I remember seeing bits of the ceremony on someone's ...Read more

A memory of Ellesmere Port in 1953 by Ian Mabbitt

I worked under ground at Abercynon Colliery from 1951 until 1953. I worked on the coal face in the "S" district, a five foot coal seam which was about 100 yards in length and which had a slight gradient. I ...Read more

A memory of Abercynon in 1950 by Royden Jones

'The Stream' ! We always have called it 'the brook' - Broughton Brook, and still do. However, the brook is in fact a tributary to the River Soar, it may in fact actually be the River Soar but simply not ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by Reuben Reynolds

One didn't have to travel to London in the past to watch pro bands plying their trade. The Nag's Head public house was a much attended venue during the late 1960s and early 1970s for watching many of the (what was then known as) ...Read more

A memory of Wollaston in 1969 by Mick Austin

I was born in 4 The Nursery in 1944. My gran Elizabeth Bayles, my mother Emma Bayles. I went to Millbank School at age 4yrs. I can remember my first teacher there Miss Watkins. My Mother worked at Lockeys buses as a bus conductor. ...Read more

A memory of West Auckland in 1953 by Christine Bayles

I remember going to the Odeon every Saturday morning, it cost 6d (about 2 new pence). We used to go to the 'pictures', as it was called then, as a family most weeks, and I well remember coming out at the end of the film ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1940 by Pamela Harman (Keene)

I arrived in Weaverham in one of its transition periods. ICI had built many houses to house its workers in all the surrounding villages including Weaverham. So Weaverham had already transformed in a way when I got there, but of ...Read more

A memory of Weaverham in 1955 by David Yates

I remember the old club house school. I lived in Coleridge Road and I went to the Ashburton High School, now pulled down, they have a new school there now but the fire station is still there, also the corner shop oposite the ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe by Alan Woodward