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I'm Wayne Kenzitt and Ive lived in Eccles for a long time. I remember going to the Broadway on a regular basis and it was a great cinema, which was only a shilling to go in and even had balcony seats. Some of the films were made ...Read more

A memory of Eccles by waynekenno

It was August 1955. School summer holidays and when they were over, it would be time for me to begin junior school back in my Midlands home town. My mother had been preparing for that big event, purchasing embroidered cloth school ...Read more

A memory of Penzance by brucehaycock

I lived in Heckingham at the time he used to give me paino lessons every Tuesday lunch time; I went to Heckingham School. He played the organ at church as well, the lessons were 5 shillings for three quarters of hour. I ...Read more

A memory of Norton Subcourse in 1967 by Peter Frost

I have wonderful memories of the camp when I was young. I remember my father, Jack Quant, and a Mr Gardner had something to do with the clubhouse like one of the memories I have just read. It was ...Read more

A memory of Humberston in 1947 by Barry Quant

In the summer of 1952 I learnt that my parents had decided to move from our home in the Midlands to the West Country as my father wished to return to where his relatives lived. It came as no surprise therefore, when one day they ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth in 1952

Although I've spent most of my life living in Bolton-upon-Dearne I was born in Goldthorpe at number 9 Orchard Street. I had 3 brothers and 1 sister. I remember Little Harold (as they called him) who had a stall on the ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe by Terry Askew

I was born on August 2 in 1949 at Croxdale Hall Durham. It was seconded after the war from the Salvin family presumably because of shortages of materity hospitals. My mother was Elda Stonebank, one of 13 family and well known in the ...Read more

A memory of Burnhope in 1949 by John Coates Farrow

I lived in the war damaged Stone House, Cullercoats which was situated within 10 ft stone walled enclosed gardens, adjacent to Stone House Cottage, fishermens cottages and a big hotel facing the road down to the beach. from birth until ...Read more

A memory of Cullercoats by dave1payne

I was born at 247 Cranbury road Eastleigh on 12 December 1944 and stayed there with my parents, Jack and Tess Norton and my younger brother Richard, until 1963 when I left to join the Royal Engineers. Every ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh

These are not my memories but those of my grandma, Beatrice May Fell. She was born in 1899 in Covenham St. Bartholomew in a small two up two down semi near todays Mill House Restaurant. Her family later moved within Covenham to what we ...Read more

A memory of Covenham St Mary