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August 2012. Its a small place Newcastle how about this for a coincidence. I was out on a walk between Wylam and Newburn and as I passed the Tidal Stone (which I mention in my stories) I met this man walking his dog, we chatted and I ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1910 by Jimmy Burrows

I attended Bridgend Technical College from 1961 to 1966 studying electrical installation. I was an apprentice for English Electric Company which had a branch office at St David's House, Wood Street, Cardiff. I worked on ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1965 by Tom Armstrong

My father Basil Leader was manager of the Co-op Funeral service which used to be the site of the Angel Inn and we lived in a maisonette above the premises. At the back were two branches of the river Colne - a fast ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1954 by Denise Mangles

My great grandparents were married here 20 August 1859. Their names were Thomas William POOLE and Mary Ann TUCKWELL and they had a family of 11 - eight born in villages close to Sandwich and three born in Southland, ...Read more

A memory of Sandwich in 1870 by Elizabeth Beer

I spent a couple of weeks as a relief manager during the 1980 summer holidays for branches of Williams & Glyn's Bank and have happy memories of my time in Shrewsbury. The bank accommodated me at the ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1980 by John Howard Norfolk

I moved to Boscombe near Christchurch in 1954 when my father's job with Williams Deacons Bank took him to their newly opened Bournemouth Branch. I was amazed! I was just eight years old and all I had ...Read more

A memory of Christchurch in 1954 by John Howard Norfolk

My paternal Robinson relatives (married Moore) are buried in the churchyard at Great Shelford from 1839 and at one time lived in Woollard's Lane. In 1849 they moved into Cambridge when William Joseph Robinson marrried Jane ...Read more

A memory of Great Shelford in 1860 by Olga Lockley

I was looking after two elderly residents and well known personage locally when alive, Mr Bert Munday and a "young" lady Mrs Hargreaves chatting away about their holidays when they used to ...Read more

A memory of Bognor Regis in 1930 by Jean Hitchcock

My husband Bill and I married in Brantingham Church on a cold day in January 1959, the snow lay thickly on the ground. We moved into Holderness Cottage, adjoining Holderness House, the home of Mrs Dunn, an elderly lady of ...Read more

A memory of South Cave in 1959 by Jean Carr

I was evacuated to Oldham in the early 1940s when London was getting blitzed and was taken in by Sarah and Levi Allen of 8 Bell Street, what a lovely couple. Just a one up one down on the corner of Blanche Street so they had the top and I had ...Read more

A memory of Oldham in 1940 by Derek P Arker