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The trust was at the bottom of 9th and 10th, facing the railway station, and then later the navy club. I was born in Blackhall in Lime Avenue and when I was about 5 we moved to bottom 11th Street. We used to go down to the ...Read more

A memory of Blackhall Colliery in 1950 by Peter Grant

I lived in Church Street, Staines, which ran down to the river. I was there from 1965 till 1986. I used to swim in the river up to Staines Bridge and back. Some days would go for a drink in the Bells. You would meet your local vicar ...Read more

A memory of Staines by George King

Wow, a lot of water under the bridge since I worked there. I worked there from about 1962 for about 12-14mths ,before embarking into the motor trade. Dees of Sidcup and they are no longer there also, great memories & ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup

My nana was born in Orange Street, South Shields. Can anyone tell me where Orange Street was situated in South Shields? My nana was born 1892, Alice Duffie, sisters Mary and Isabella. Any help would be most appreciated, as yet again I have hit a brick wall thanks x

A memory of South Shields in 1900

I used to see some poor wretched people tramping the roads when I was a kid. I remember one particular man, news went quickly round that a tramp was on his way up Skirbeck Quarter. As kids we would stand at the top of ...Read more

A memory of Boston by Bob Marriott

My mother, Gladys Mary Jefford as she was known (her birth certificate said she was Gladys Ethel Mary Parkhouse Grey) lived in Shaldon from 1912- 1942. She married my father up in Birkenhead and my sister and I returned to ...Read more

A memory of Shaldon in 1930 by Angela Rickett (Nee Kavanagh)

I was born in the flat above the shop to the left of this picture in 1953. This shop named A & L Hoyal was run by my grandfather, Albert Hoyal, and his brother Les Hoyal. Though the photo was taken in Faringdon Road, most of the ...Read more

A memory of Swindon in 1953 by Peter Jenvey

In 1959 I started school at Holyrood school. Often after school my parents would take me and my two sisters into the High Street to do some shopping. I would always have to run and see the pigs just off Market Street - the ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1959 by Lidia Skrzypek

I went to Bloomsbury Street J I school, the Headmistress was called Mrs England and other members of staff were Miss Aston and Miss Tann. It would be about 1960. Does anybody remember a family called the Cotterills, they lived on ...Read more

A memory of Nechells in 1960

My father, Mr Childerley, worked here during the mid 50's serving as an apprentice carpenter, working for the firm Evans and Sons in Cambridge Street. A school master lived in the Jeweller's before the work was carried out. ...Read more

A memory of St Neots in 1956 by Katherine Childerley