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I was born at home, like most babies those days, in Sept 1945 at 8 Hummer Road next door to Mr Heather's wood sawing yard with all the rats that it contained in the stored wood. My grandfather/mother lived in Park Road and he ...Read more

A memory of Egham by Victor Stroud

Memories of Brambletye Boys Preparatory School 1967 – 1971. When I went to Brambletye at the age of nine, in September 1967, it was my fifth school in the last four years. As my parents were routinely being ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1967

Dear reader, I have received some lovely messages since writing a few memories I thought I would add a few more. The Rock Inn I use to stay with my great uncle/aunty's public house, namely the Rock Inn, in 1958- 1965. The ...Read more

A memory of Waterrow in 1960 by Julian Bishop

I remember my earliest memories of Levenshulme (where I have lived for the past 15 years) was as a boy of about 4 or 5 in the early 1970s, going to the dairy on Lloyd Road where the bus terminus was - with my grandfather and also ...Read more

A memory of Levenshulme in 1970

I was so homesick. The song "Deep Purple" made me cry because I'd heard it at home. We had two visitors the first Sunday of the month from 2.0-4.0. We went home for a month at Pesach. I wasn't allowed to go to my brother's ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1942 by Berenice Greenberg

My mum Mary Booth, worked at the cinema around the above date - I have a photo of her dressed up from the film 'Annie Get Your Gun', selling tickets outside. I went to Eccles Parish School in 1958/9 until I left in 1963/4. I ...Read more

A memory of Eccles in 1950 by Sandra Booth Warburton Sjcdt

Well not just 1953 but for most of the 50s, I was brought up by my Grandparents Charlie & Elsie Duffy "Mam & Dad" to me. Mam's family had a newsagents shop years eariler on Gunson Street, ...Read more

A memory of Miles Hill in 1953 by Barbra Edwards

I remember Batley Carr and Hyrstlands well. I moved to Hyrstlands in 1958 into the new council houses alongside the park, we'd all been re-housed following demolition of houses in Batley, Taylor Street and the houses between Yellands ...Read more

A memory of Batley Carr in 1959 by Michael Kemp

I lived in Keighley Drive, opposite Crossleys sportsfield until I got married and moved to Bradford with my husband. I have so many lovely memories of Illingworth and Ovenden. My brother went to St. Thomas More school and I ...Read more

A memory of Halifax in 1965 by Sylvia Moore

This is from about the 1950s. Along Grange Road was a huge piggery and it was owned by the Liddle family, by, did it pong. Further along you came to the railway crossing with the sign STOP, LOOK, LISTEN in red, this was where the steam ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows