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Yes, I remember Pickford and Holland chimney, it was a landmark for the villas with the letters PH on it in white paint, it imortalised Phillip Hansom. I remember years later when it was demolished, must have been around 1983 or 1984. I ...Read more

A memory of Crook by Mary Harker/Bainbridge

Early 50's. My wife is Audrey a member of the Upton family who lived at 101 Wallasey Village over Sayers cake shop. Her sister, Doreen, worked across the road in Strongs Dairy. Happy memories of ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1950 by John Davies

I was born in Belfast in 1940 but like others we were bombed out of Belfast and moved into the old school house in school lane, Moygashel. We were still there when dad came home from Burma at the end of the war. My early ...Read more

A memory of Dungannon by Edward Weir

My mother is Olwen Jones (nee Haigh) of the old post office in Bodorgan from 1937 to 1953 when she got married to Vivian Madoc Jones of Newborough. Her parents Randolph and Janet Haigh ran the post office from 1937 ...Read more

A memory of Bodorgan by Alison Scott

I could not think of a better place to spend my early years than overlooking the old reservoir. My grandmother's timber cottage was one of eight built long ago, probably to house estate workers. Each cottage appeared ...Read more

A memory of Elstree by John Gates

We moved to Brampton in August 1949 when my father (an RAF officer) was posted there from RAF Wharton nr Lytham St Annes. My sister was three weeks old - and my mum only just recovering from a difficult birth after also just ...Read more

A memory of Brampton in 1951

My grandfather used to go fishing at Bury, and introduced this lovely spot to my father. He would cycle down to bury from London as a young man, pre WW2. In the 1950's we would drive down and picnic by the river. ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1959 by Michael Wilkins

I am 65 now, but if I close my eyes I am 10, playing in the cornfields down by MileOak Secondary Modern School, with my brother Graham Burton and some friends, Richard Gere, Suesanne Birchill and Roger Birchill, and others ...Read more

A memory of Mile Oak in 1957 by Cynthia Miller

I was born in number 31 Penylan Road, Argoed. With wonderful memories of playing in the fields all around, Argoed, it was such a safe place to play. Building camps in the front field, making dams in the stream next to my house, ...Read more

A memory of Argoed, The by David Edwards

So! Back to 11 Woburn Place, back to school on Hope Chapel Hill back to Hotwells golden mile with its 15 pubs. The War was still going on but there was only limited bombing and some daylight raids, the city was in a dreadful state ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1945 by Arthur Cottrell