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As a small child I would travel down by train with my nan and stay at my Uncle George Bowen who lived in Langham Road, Most important thing before boarding the train in London was to get in the right section ...Read more

A memory of Robertsbridge in 1952 by Geraldine Todd

My first recollection of living in the valley was at Duffrin where my sisters Pat and Pam Smith also lived, later we moved to the Gwynfi, and that is where I lived and was educated in the local infants school at the bottom of the ...Read more

A memory of Abergwynfi in 1953 by Kenneth Smith

I don't know what made me google Delamerites but was amazed to find this website. It seems I'm not the only one with bitter memories. I hated every single minute of every single day and night and was one of ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1954 by Doe Solomon

My Uncle Burt and Aunty May had a shellfish stall in Hunstanton on the sea front by the old red sea mine.  I would only have been a mere youngster then. I can remember going with my Uncle Burt Wells to ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1955 by David Burrows

I was 8 years old when this picture was taken. It is hard to express how evocative this innocuous little picture is to me. Is that a box of tissues on the right?. Well this picture really set me off blubbing. At this end ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst in 1955 by jeanhaedicke

I was born in No. 23 Hastings Street  in 1950 (is anyone still living there?). Moved away 1968. Was a regular client of the cinema (flea pit) at Klondyke. I remember the coal trains running above the road between High Pit and Klondyke. ...Read more

A memory of Cramlington in 1950 by Mick Flynn

I went to school and we had to go down High Street every day and we had to go for lunch every day, I miss my home town. My name is June Mackman Warner.

A memory of Holbeach in 1954 by June Mackman

I remember going to the Goose Fair in Nottingham in the late 1940s and we used to stay with my Uncle Jim Bradbury in Hucknall. On the way back from one of these trips my dad bought some meal for the pigs (he and grandad had lots of them on ...Read more

A memory of Hucknall in 1940 by Jean Bradbury

Today, whilst visiting my mother who lives in the village I decided to park my car and walk through the village, a trip down memory lane. I was disappointed to see that many familar places no longer looked the same, there was ...Read more

A memory of West Chiltington in 2008 by Carol Spicer

I have never heard of this person, although he makes reference to some people, and places in Colden Common I knew. So if anyone who knows him ever comes across this then I have been some help! COLDEN COMMON? Oh, yes - ...Read more

A memory of Colden Common by Bert Catt