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I was 13 and I went for 2 weeks' holiday with my sister Liz and my dad. We stayed at the Cools Cafe, run by the Kelly family. We used to help make chips and cook the meat pies for the customers, they smelt delicious and tasted even ...Read more

A memory of Port St Mary in 1963 by Rob Loewenthal

In the 1960s, I remember watching Dalmilling Primary being built from my Ganny's window, my first day there when I was about eight and meeting all the new pals, school sports that I was useless at, egg and spoon was torture and ...Read more

A memory of Ayr in 1960 by Linda Kiltie Stewart

My Grandparents lived in Swiss Cottage for many years. We used to stay there as children. When we first went there was no electricity and limited water. We had to go to bed with oil lamps and all food was cooked on the Aga in the ...Read more

A memory of Buriton by Gillian Mac Hugh

Born and brought up in Barmston village, my book, 'Diz Thoo Remembr' recalls many of the happenings in the village from 1933 onwards. I was born into what could have been a family of twenty. My mum ...Read more

A memory of Barmston in 1930 by Donald Bemrose

My name is Alan Brogan, though I changed my name many years ago. I was in the Castle School from 1963 to 1969/70. My six years there were an unrimitting trial of severe punishment, all for a bag of sweets and refusing to totally ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope by Alan Brogan

I moved to Brimington aged 2 in 1947 when my parents had the shop at 81 Station Road. I went to Brim Boys School and left in 1962 to join the Halifax Building Society in Corporation Street Chesterfield. In 1968 I married Pat Goddard from ...Read more

A memory of Staveley in 1947 by Max Trickett

As a member of the 6th Brockley Scout Group, I visited Westgate 3 or 4 times during the early 1950s for the annual 2-week camp in August, our tents being pitched in the grounds of the then Catholic Church on the London Road. I ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by Ken Cook

Always known by my pals and myself, just as "the Greyhound" (late 1950s). In those days, the Public Bar was on the left hand side of the building, which had benches and scrubbed wooden tables with a sprinkling of sawdust on the ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich by Ken Cook

The four cottages in this photograph are of Bryn Terrace, formerly named Bryn Cottages where I lived at No 1 with my sister Beryl and our parents Ceinwen and William John Thacker. My grandparents Mary Ann and William George Davies lived ...Read more

A memory of Burry Port in 1944 by Ken Thacker

You see the wooden building in the background? This is where we went for our school dinners when I attended Allendale Junior school. We walked in pairs along the road and down the path. Earlier on we might see the cooks leaving ...Read more

A memory of Allendale Town in 1960 by Sue Armstrong