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During the war years in 1940, we moved from Doncaster to Rossington. My father worked on the railway and felt we would be safer in the country. We lived at 254 Gatehouse Crossing and later in 1948, at 383 Gatehouse, Bessacarr. ...Read more

A memory of Finningley in 1940 by Beryl Goforth

My mother is Olwen Jones (nee Haigh) of the old post office in Bodorgan from 1937 to 1953 when she got married to Vivian Madoc Jones of Newborough. Her parents Randolph and Janet Haigh ran the post office from 1937 ...Read more

A memory of Bodorgan by Alison Scott

My childhood memories of Edmundbyers have been with me all my life really. My mum & dad, aunty, uncle and cousin used to holiday in a tiny caravan on farmer Edon Sanderson's field. This was before the Derwent Reservoir was built. ...Read more

A memory of Edmundbyers in 1952 by Carol Bennett

I could not think of a better place to spend my early years than overlooking the old reservoir. My grandmother's timber cottage was one of eight built long ago, probably to house estate workers. Each cottage appeared ...Read more

A memory of Elstree by John Gates

I was born in a cottage opposite the Wheatsheaf pub when our village was greatly different from what it has become. I grew up in the proverbial English village. Happy days. I remember Baroness Kinloss, relative to the Duke of ...Read more

A memory of Maids' Moreton in 1950 by Carole Orpe

I have vivid memories of the shops shown in the photograph. The shop on its own, on the right of the picture was Galley's Newsagents run by brothers Roy and Dennis Galley. Having said that Dennis' wife ...Read more

A memory of Helsby in 1962 by Ian Champion

I remember Chez Jene, a boutique owned by the mother of presenter of radio and tv David Jacobs. I had never been in the shop, it was close to the 137 bus route in Leighamcourt Road, and whilst waiting for the bus l would look in the ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1963

My mum use to have the tea rooms when I was a child called The Copper Kettle. I think it was around the late 60's early 70's, it had the tea rooms at one end and a transport cafe at the other, and we lived above it. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1970 by Shani Clarke

I was born in Trench in 1948; my father worked at the Granville Pits. We moved to 'The Old Yard' when I was about 4 years old. We had such a good community, the homes were bungalows and houses. We lived in a little bungalow with no ...Read more

A memory of Donnington by Josie Smith (Nee) Downes

I can remember playing with my friends on this viaduct as a 10 year old. We used to run along the two walkways running under the track and, if we were feeling really brave/crazy, we would race across the viaduct at track level, hoping that a train wasn't on its way!

A memory of Riddlesdown in 1978 by Doug Goldsack