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Does anyone know anything about my great-grand parents, they owned shops in Rhos, they were greengrocers, they had a horse and cart. They were George Ellis Hughes (Clifton)and Abigail Hughes (Clifton), they ...Read more

A memory of Penycae in 1940 by Beverley Vaughan

I was brought up in Lichfield and attended St. Michaels Primary School and left to attend Kings Hill Secondary School when it opened in September of what must have been 1957 if my maths are correct. I lived near to Stowe Pool and ...Read more

A memory of Lichfield in 1957 by Pat Blears

I was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. My mum was born and grew up in Newcastle and so many of my aunties and uncles and cousins were all Geordies. My Uncle George and Aunty Beatty (Charlton) lived in Crawcrook in Morgy Hill and I ...Read more

A memory of Clara Vale in 1949 by Allan Fawcett

We moved into School Street when I was nine, along with my two sisters Norma and Iris and our parents Mary and Norman Cook. My father was a lead glazer at Reed Millicans on Team Valley. At the Derwentwater Road end of School ...Read more

A memory of Bensham in 1958 by Linda Boss

I was born at Hawthorne Cottage, Trampas Lane, North Boarhunt on May 7th 1957, it was my grandparents' house, Charlie and Marge Johnson. Their son Rod was my dad, and Joan was my mum, later I ...Read more

A memory of North Boarhunt in 1957 by Julie Harrison

Many of us growing up in Hadleigh were lucky enough, weather permitting, to have a birthday picnic at the Castle. Plenty of food prepared by various mothers, kite flying, games and everyones favorite rolling down the hill. ...Read more

A memory of Hadleigh in 1968 by Andrew Campbell

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

Hi there Does anyone remember the grocer shop in King Street, Connie Kettle's, also the old pit just behind and to the left of the shop, and the old cottages where if you walked past these you would come out near the top of ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1955 by Peter Michael Goddard

bill.haylor@btinternet.com  Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs. Shops and services were limited but adequate. Village hierarchy although unwritten was arranged in a manner that suited ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by Bill Haylor

bill.haylor@btinternet.com  Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs. One of the first indications in the village relating to war was the erection of a telegraph pole, on the top of which was a platform ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1940 by Bill Haylor