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My nan - Francis Bowen moved to Blaencaerau from the Rhondda at the age of 7. Married Idris Bowen (my grandad) who worked in Caerau Colliery and then Midcast. Living in Blaencaerau didn't change in many years as I ...Read more

A memory of Caerau by Sam John

Does anyone have any memories or old photos of a grocers at 2 Park Street, Patricroft). As I believe my relatives may have ran a shop there, the owner would have been a Mr Benjamin Powell?

A memory of Patricroft in 1910 by Gemma Mooney

I just read the coment by Jackie Payne, I would love to see the photo of her mum outside her shop. I often went in this shop when little with my mum and she talks of all the things I used to do, even playing on the dump, ...Read more

A memory of Greenwich by Shirley Marshall

I lived in part of the Governor's house in 1973. The back of the house extended to where the car park access ramp is now, before the shopping centre was built. In the cellar were bread ovens and a bricked up tunnel that ...Read more

A memory of Newark-on-Trent in 1973 by Kate Harrison

I joined the Norwich Post Office in 1948 as a telegram messenger boy.The entrance at that time was in King Street for us .I remember going into the loft above the counter from where the officials used to watch the counter staff.There were ...Read more

A memory of Norwich in 1948 by Michael Rowe

I lived at 5 The Ride from 1959 till 1967, my name is Tony Scott. I went to Brentford Secondary Modern and remember other locals like John Pearce, Richard Pearce as well as Stacey and Woodley. We ran the youth club in the ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1960 by Tony Scott

I was born in Carlton Road in 1937. Got bombed out when a landmine dropped down the road and we were evacuated to Clacton while my Dad worked down the Underground tunnel when his factory and the machines were moved away from ...Read more

A memory of Gidea Park by Alan Stanley

I came to live in Woodlands in 1945 and attended the infants school which was close to where I lived, at 75 The Park. Aged 8 I then went to Adwick Junior School, our teacher was Mr Bryant and the ...Read more

A memory of Woodlands in 1950 by Alex Bamford

For the last six years I have been looking at the families living in Heath Hayes and Norton Canes, and how these villages were so closely linked. Tracing my own family it was interesting to find that in the 18th century ...Read more

A memory of Heath Hayes by Sue Baron

I watched, with my young son, this wonderful Victorian building being demolished in 1974. Being such a huge Hotel, it became untenable. Part of it was, I recall made into flats, but after a time this apparently was not ...Read more

A memory of Sheringham in 1974 by Georgina Martin