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My grandma & granddad (Ted & Janet Lambert) used to run a confectioners in the corner building at the top of Bond Street, a steep cobbled road then. They used to bake bread and cakes at their main shop in ...Read more

A memory of Birstall in 1967 by Paul Robinson

I have great memorys as a kid, we moved to 11 Church Street in 1971, my dad taught me to ride a bike on the footpath the side of the vicar's house opposite the church where my dear old nan is. My dad Roger Stapley still ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1970

My grandfather, Charles Arthur Evan, was signalman there. My mom Margaret Evans was born there in 1917, one of four daughters. She passed away nearly three years ago at 92 and as sharp as a whip. We emigrated to Canada in ...Read more

A memory of Sutton on Trent in 1910 by Sallie Ellis (Turner)

My nan and grandad were Barking people, my nan was born on a fishing smack moored in the quay at barge aground area of town. My grandad was a hero of the battle of Jutland. My uncle Tig lived and died in Barking so did many of my ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1952 by Bob Warren

I suppose, years ago, there was a Bedford market without old Ben. Can’t have been much of a market though. Anyway, as long as I, or everybody else I've asked can remember, old Ben has been down the market on Saturdays. Maybe he worked ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1972 by Brian Walker

My memories of the above are vivid in my memory, I remember Shawhead from about 1959 when we first moved there, when we moved in there was an old railway line that ran in front of the shops which then were the ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge by George Mc Conville

I lived in Harold Hill from 1952 till the early 70's. My first school was Bosworth Junior, the Headmaster, a nasty old man named Gridley and our form teacher the great Miss Worril. When I left there I went to Quarles where ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1952

Every year, from about 1943 until 1951, I and my brother Robin used to spend at least a fortnight of our summer holidays with our grandmother (Edith Holmes) in Falmouth Street. We spent hours in this park, if you swung the swings ...Read more

A memory of Newmarket in 1943 by Michael Browne

I was born in Princes Street in 1959 and lived there till 1978 when it was demolished. I grew up in Widnes and miss it terribly, I went to St Maries then Kingsway School.

A memory of Widnes in 1970 by Kimberley Kennaway

Not long after we moved to be near my new job in Glasgow, I took a few days off work so that Elizabeth and I could go sightseeing towards Oban. We took the train from Glasgow, Queen Street to Taynuilt for ...Read more

A memory of Kilchrenan in 1975 by John Howard Norfolk