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Does anybody remember Shepherd St, Bow? The Widows Son pub used to stand on the corner(famous for its hot cross bun legend) The reason for my interest is my father lived there as a boy & he never knew anything of his past, ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by Roy Pryer

My parents, Fred and Marjorie Reeks bought the shop and Post Office from Mrs Britton in 1947 and they owned the business till about 1985. In the mid sixties Fred got about 100,000 daffodil bulbs from a market garden in Darlington ...Read more

A memory of Eppleby by Alison Glass

On the left hand side of the photograph next to the zebra crossing is Eastwells, a greengrocers and fruiterers. My father Harold Besent who is in the window in a white coat was a partner and also the managing director from 1940 ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1955 by Claire Allen

The Bay Horse Inn would then likely belong to T & R Theakston Ltd, which became a limited company in 1905. Now, 2012, the pub belongs to Greene King plc. The chimney in the background belongs to Lightfoot's Brewery, ...Read more

A memory of Masham in 1900 by Paul Theakston

My parents took us to Kilchattan Bay every year from the mid 1960s. As far as my sister and I were concerned we didn't want to go anywhere else but KB. Used to love climbing the Suidhe which was a ritual for all Glasgow kids. ...Read more

A memory of Kilchattan Bay by David Roach

When I was a young boy, aged about ten or eleven back in 1947/48, I can remember going to stay with Mr & Mrs Henshaw who lived at the above house having moved from Tal Y Cafn in the Conwy Valley. From what I can ...Read more

A memory of Bull Bay by Ronald Parry

I lived in Skewen from September 1983 to May 1984 - only a short time in my life but it made a big impression on me. My wife Fiona, new baby Siobhan and I rented a house at Caenant Terrace facing the railway and the mountain.  We had moved ...Read more

A memory of Skewen by John Mc Millan

The family moved from Reay in Caithness to Sorbie in 1932 - I was 2 years old and had a sister who was 12 years old and a brother, 10 years old, so there was a huge difference in ages and I was brought up as ...Read more

A memory of Sorbie in 1930 by Fionn Young

The newspaper published at Grantham in England, the original home of the ancestors of the well known Plumb and Parker families of Mills, Pottawattamie, Cass and Shelby Counties, recently carried a story ...Read more

A memory of Barrowby by Alan Plumb

Having some difficulty commenting/doing a memory of Llangoed. Wanted to use some specific photos shown, but have not had the option to add a memory to them. Maybe because I am the first to do one ? Anyway, the photo of the Post Office. ...Read more

A memory of Llangoed by bru.enzer