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I remember the shopkeepers; Rees Jones & Fred Palmer (the butcher) also Sgt Brace at the Police Station. I also have very fond memories of the Bedwellty Show and the ink stamps on your hand to let you back in ...Read more

A memory of Cefn by Anwen Parry

Mum was born at Cavenham and she was one of a family of 16 children. My sister and I spent most of our summer holidays at 13 The Street, with two uncles as Mum went to do jobs for them, as one was blind. As soon as we got to Cavenham ...Read more

A memory of Cavenham in 1954

1940 - I had joined the W.A.A.F in London and chose to be posted to Nottinghamshire; I was just 18 and my posting was firstly to Hucknall and then to Watnall when the Ops room was ready. 1940 was a dreadful winter but thanks to the snowfalls ...Read more

A memory of Eastwood in 1940 by Margaret Scribens

Having survived WW2 as a frontline 'Signaller' in post D Day operations, Dad had a yearning for living afloat and after seaching boatyards on the Hamble River, eventually found a converted 'LCA' (Landing Craft ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1948 by Roy Pigneguy

I have just discovered this wonderful website today and oh what memories come flooding back. I was born in Lower Shott in 1954 and lived there until I was about 23. I remember these shops so well. Being sent by my mum to ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham in 1960 by Anne Norris

I was born in 1949 to Nellie and Ashford DISNEY. We lived at 15 Albert Road, and my father worked in the Post Office at BATH'S on the Weston Road. Mr. William Bath was my father's uncle. Before Mummy and Daddy got married, ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1949 by Janet Moran

Well, Byrness Utd, the lads in the village made the team up. We played local villages - we made the goal posts out of trees and we nicked the paint out of dad's shed to mark the pitch - this was around the year of 1967-68. We saved up ...Read more

A memory of Byrness in 1968 by Sean Skingsley

Although Runcorn born and bred, each year of my early childhood my parents would take us to visit Ingersley Hall in Bollington. By this time it was no longer a private country residence. It was owned and run by a ...Read more

A memory of Bollington in 1971

From around 1953 until 1961 I used to stay with my Grandma Hindley who lived just off Bentick Road and then later on in Plimsoll Terrace, Denman Street, Radford, Nottingham. I can vividly recall Plimsoll Terrace - a ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham by Alfieri Arezzo

At the age of 14 my father began work as an apprentice pawnbroker for the firm W. Paines & Co. at their Strood branch on the corner of High Street, and Station Road. The firm had 3 branches. The apprenticeship lasted 5 years, followed by a ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Ann Claydon