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My memories of Kessingland was us catching the coach from outside the bakers in Stotfold (my home town), travelling down via Newmarket, passing the site where a young gypsy boy had been killed many moons ago.  We would then get ...Read more

A memory of Kessingland in 1970 by Jacqueline Lunness

This photo shows me, my mother and two of my sisters walking home, in either 1967 or 1968. I am the small boy looking back towards the camera. We lived in a bungalow not visible in the photo, on the left hand side almost opposite the large ...Read more

A memory of Over in 1967 by Sean Baker

I went to  St Barnabas school from 1950 until 1953, I have just found an old school photo from the above years.  I can put names to some of the faces but could do with some help with the rest.  Can anyone help?

A memory of Wellingborough in 1950 by John Tomkins

Greetings,  My name is Diane and I am an American who lived in the Grange on High Street in Islip in the early 60's.  My father was in the USAF stationed at Alconberry.   I have fond memories of Islip.  I remember going to the ...Read more

A memory of Islip in 1962 by Diane Olson

The hot summer of 1976 - I was 16 and studying for my O levels in between minding the shop for my adopted parents Bert and Mary Belli. Our cafe was one of two Belli cafes in the town, but of course I always thought ours was superior and ...Read more

A memory of Blaenavon in 1976 by Stephen Belli

The pub on the right of the road shown in this photo used to be called 'The Crown'. In the late 1960s/early 1970s a lorry driving down this hill jack-knifed and demolished the front of the pub. After the building was repaired, the name of the pub was changed to 'The Half Crown'.

A memory of South Benfleet in 1970 by Margaret Ward

The building shown on the right of this photo was Benfleet Yacht Club's boatshed. The clubship is the large, dark boat moored near it. When I was a child, we used to swim in the Creek from the slipway at the Yacht Club. We ...Read more

A memory of South Benfleet in 1968 by Margaret Ward

I was born in Eastbourne Road, in a house opposite the sand pits and the common. My name was Wendy Mitchell. With my sisters and brother I would spend hours picking bluebells and primroses and climbing trees there. ...Read more

A memory of Godstone by Wendy Soall

Every year the Carnival passed through the Square, I remember being on the float with the Trawsfynydd Queen 1971/72?  I have a photo of my Mum, on a float in the Square, when she was little (that would be 1951/52?) and a photo of my ...Read more

A memory of Trawsfynydd in 1970 by Linda Combe

Spent many, many years visiting grandparents in Caste Craig then in West Mains with my parents John and Pam Watson.   My father John was the only child of Hugh and Maggie Watson, whom we went to visit each year.  We spent time ...Read more

A memory of Blyth Bridge in 1955 by Pamala Sharman