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I too worked here as a school girl in the holidays. I remember Heidi and Suzi well ( have a photo of them) Also a very nice Dutch girl, and an Australian called Margaret. Rowena, who worked in the kitchen with one of the sisters. Margaret and ...Read more

A memory of Kirn by Irene Mc Goldrick

Happy holidays. My aunt Bella stayed in the first house in New Byth and my uncle in the last house. My dad was raised and brought up here and my grannie never left the village. She fostered and adopted a number of children. ...Read more

A memory of New Byth in 1968 by Aileen Mc Gill

We lived in Belfast and our summer holidays were in Portrush. My father was a pianist and his dance band played the summer season at the Seabank Hotel. I and my sister remember playing on the beach at The Arcadia as this was a ...Read more

A memory of Portrush in 1947 by Sheila Craig

I have just seen the photo of Prestatyn Open Air Swimming Pool; and Katy McMichael's wonderful memories of times spent there in 1958. They so very much remind me of my very similar memories of the ...Read more

A memory of Prestatyn by mike

My grandmother lived at No.25 Byres Road, a short walk from the Botanical Gardens and spent many Sunday afternoons examining the gardens with her siblings & parents. She also was courted there by my grandfather-to-be. In ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1890 by Geoffrey Brace

I`m afraid this photo is not Station road but it is in fact London road and to the right of it were two coal yards Drake and Mount and Fear Bros. Sleet and Stearns were in Heather Drive I think which was off Chobham Road ...Read more

A memory of Sunningdale by John Stilwell

My father was killed in the Malayan emergency and I was sent to live with my grandmother, Kezia Stedman, in Costly Street, Ivybridge. I went to Sunnyside school. Sophie Harris was the lady who ran the school. Then I attended Plympton ...Read more

A memory of Ivybridge in 1950 by Rosemary Rhodes

When my father got a job in Bristol after the war we moved to Bristol from Leeds but there was very little housing available. After a year of living with a family ‘in digs’ as it was called then, we were allocated a ...Read more

A memory of Shirehampton by Jill Brown

My family lived in Perranporth from 1963 to 1967 when we moved to Goonhavern 3 miles away. There were six of us children and, in town or 3 miles away, we all looked forward to the CSSM coming during our school holidays. ...Read more

A memory of Perranporth by mike.feehan

Mum in law worked at Sunny Sands Cafe, which is further down on this photo and to the left, now flats have been built there. When I first met my husband we used to go there and meet his mother, and when I had children we ...Read more

A memory of Folkestone in 1965 by Frances Fagg