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This was the year I was born, as everyone was in those days, in Tredegar. I came home with my mum and dad to our house in Commercial Buildings. Both my mum and dad were from the village where my paternal grandfather had once owned ...Read more

A memory of Oakdale in 1956 by Lynne Woodley

How different we can be! I absolutely did not like Sister Veronica at Our Lady's Junior School, she frightened me to death. I remember Sister Anthony and Sr Hilda and they took us to Gerrards Cross where their order had a ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1952 by Polly Short

I passed the 11+ in 1952 and started Grammar school in Sept that year at Orange Hill Girls' Grammar. I caught the 140 bus from Streatfield Road, Kenton every day for 5 years which is when I left with 8 O levels ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by Cherry Jocelyn Dunstone

Hello everyone, I've read memories about Cliftonville and the Parrakeet and suddenly my heart start jumping, going back of about 50 years, and still remembering - that's not bad! My name is Giovanni but everybody used to call me John ...Read more

A memory of Cliftonville in 1965 by Gianni Vivarelli

My grandfather, John Henry Penny (Jack), built a house in Donniford Road. He called it The House Jack Built; it is still there today and is just before the lane going to Hellwell Bay. It was designed by Charles Royle Penny, one ...Read more

A memory of Watchet in 1930 by Edith Rees

It is good that there are a few memories of Tenterfield. We knew some of you guys. There seems to be nothing of Templedean. It's a bit like we have been wiped off the map? I, among others, grew up there, in the 60s. We have managed to ...Read more

A memory of Haddington in 1966 by Patricia Lack

As a boy of around 10 years old, every Saturday afternoon, my friends and I would go to the Palace Cinema (Farm Side Place, off Stockport Road) for the matinee. It would start around 2pm and it would be 6D to ...Read more

A memory of Levenshulme in 1959 by Daniel Heathcote

I am looking for any info my great grandfather who lived in 2 Oakland Terrace (until his death in 1947) with his wife Martha who died about 1934 .I believe Martha's son and his wife also lived in this cottage ...Read more

A memory of Chigwell Row by Kay Mcgrory

My sister and I lived in three different places in Kilburn, at Willesden Lane, 55 Dyne Rd (I can't believe I still remember the number) and Queens Park Road. We had several Polish relatives that lived ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by Chris Roycroft

I can remember visiting my Aunty Myvanwy and Uncle Elvert Parry with my father in Rhes Y Cae (Mountain View just up the track from the Miners PH). Great times, sadly my father passed away but I recall walking from Bagillt across ...Read more

A memory of Rhes-y-Cae in 1974