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Hello everyone. I have just registered. I have been searching for info on platts common around 1948 onwards. I used to live in Hague Yard at platts common when I was little. It would be great if anyone as info. I would be most grateful. ...Read more

A memory of Hoyland by griffiths_lynn1

My name is Terry Furlong I lived at 22 Alfred Street from 1947 to 1950.I was aged 5 to 8 yrs old. We had to leave Abertysswg because the local pit shaft was getting close to our houses causing subsidence.I still go back a couple of times a year , my house is still there. Regards Terry

A memory of Abertysswg by t.furlong

Alan Benfell, born 43. Moulton Avenue near Wellington School/Sutton Lane. Went to Wellington until about 52 then moved to Marshall Close off Wellington Road South. Went to Grove road for a couple of years then on to SGGS (Black ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Alan Benfell

My mother s family lived on North row, the Sandersons, Grandfather Joseph and grandmother Phoebe, my aunt Rita, my mother Margaret, uncles Robert and Joseph, many happy memories of playing on the pit heap and going for shower ...Read more

A memory of East Holywell by Michael Bloxham

I also lived 739 Ripple Rd prefabs i was born in the front bedroom in 1947 i went to Dawson and Camball school i remember the big house that stood between the prefabs the vinigar man and the bonfire nights on the open ground between ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by moejoeinspain

How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” all ...Read more

A memory of Barrington by masters.clifford2

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone we ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

My mother was born in Blaenrhondda at the top of the Rhondda Fawr in 1914 and was one of four sisters but she was the only one to leave the Rhondda at the age of fourteen to go into service in England. During WW2 when my father ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert by Viv Browne

I have two professionally taken pictures of an official visit to PILSLEY COLLIERY, the pit as grandad called it, by what looks to be the colliers wives. The last pit closed in 1957 & I suspect the ...Read more

A memory of Pilsley by Chris Nee Savage

My parents lived in Andrews close no. 4 from 1959 until 2013. Peter and Brenda cook had many friends in the area. I was born 1962 and lived at home until 1982. I went to St. Joseph's primary then St. Philomenas followed by St ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray by Jacqui Cook