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My name is Alan Naber and in 1949 I was five years old and started my school life at Red Lion Road school. This is an account of how I saw life at that time with a few additions from other students I am still in touch ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by oldcyclist

I attended Whitstone during the changeover from Secondary Modern to Comprehensive. It was quite a shock to me. I'd always been to small, private schools, & it seemed huge. I was also amazed & shocked by the bad ...Read more

A memory of Shepton Mallet by bru.enzer

'The Stream' ! We always have called it 'the brook' - Broughton Brook, and still do. However, the brook is in fact a tributary to the River Soar, it may in fact actually be the River Soar but simply not ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by Reuben Reynolds

My mother Rose Blanshard was born in Low Apley 04/02/1915. Please does anyone have information about Jas W Lord who baptized her. He was a Wesleyan Minister. I think the house where she was born has now been demolished.

A memory of Lincoln by Shirley Bee

My mother lived in Dunmow from 1932 until 1946 when she left to live in Edinburgh. My mother's name was Rosalind Frecknall and she and her family lived at The Close initially, then The Downs. Her father, Claud Frecknall, taught ...Read more

A memory of Great Dunmow in 1930

I lived in Ditton as a boy and went to Ditton St.Marys school (often mistakenly referred to as St.Michaels), with my twin sister. We were not Catholic but went to the church frequently. I remember the Head Masters Mr.Murphy and later ...Read more

A memory of Ditton by John Jennings

I was born in 1954 at home in George Street, Low Valley, in what was known as Company Row, presumably as it was built my mine-owners to house their workers. It was a two up two down terrace next to the ...Read more

A memory of Low Valley

I was born at Low Westwood, a small mining village in the North East of England in 1955 – well, when I say I was born there, that’s not entirely true. Unlike today, children were born at ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1960 by Kathy Aveyard

I was born in Walton Hospital 1943 and spent a good part of my childhood living in Seaforth. Later in my early 20's moving to Coronation Drive, Crosby. Between 1970 and 71, I worked on the construction of the new ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1970 by Denis Fay

I lived in the prefabs during the war, lots of memories like my friend Ralph Binney. We spent our holidays working for nothing on the large farm opposite our prefab on the upper estate (there was also a lower estate). ...Read more

A memory of Treforest Industrial Estate by Brian Williams