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I was brought up in Doggie from the age of 3and1/2 and lived in 12 Oak Terrace with my Aunt and Uncle. I left at age 17 years and have many memories of growing up. Do you remember the hills and holes? we used to roll our hard boiled ...Read more

A memory of West Cornforth by Maureen Anthony

When my family moved here I was only 7 and there was only a cottage on the left at bottom of Brae and a row of four terraced houses on the left, they were holiday homes for my grandmother and her sisters. We lived there with no ...Read more

A memory of Mid Calder by Doreen Knox

My father Frank Mallinder was born in the family home on the 1/02/1915 at 45 Queen street Eckington. His father was Willliam born 1876 Wath upon Dearne his mother was Harriet born 1881 Mossborough. There where 9 children and 2 ...Read more

A memory of Eckington by Stuart Mallinder

I work as a contractor for the British Army, and was just chatting to my dad about having to go to Bullford soon. My dad was telling me all about my great uncle, and reeled off the address of 5 Clarendon terrace. I ...Read more

A memory of North Tidworth by Deborah Barnfield

My mother was brought up by a lady called Alice who married Joshua Roberts in Cefn Mawr and relocated to Middleton in Lancashire. Alice had a lot of relations still living there including a cousin Bertha who married Idris ...Read more

A memory of Cefn Mawr by Glenys Alice Ellis

Ah! How I well remember sharing times in a little unmodernised terraced house that my friend rented in Highlands Road in the early 1970s. The house was a little 2 up / 2 down with an outside loo & a little back ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1972 by José Riley

Does anybody remember Clifford the milkman, he had a barrel in a yard that he used as a dog kennel in the village. Or the Co-op in the village, I think it was that sold record players and I  think shirts folded up, and kept in ...Read more

A memory of Birstall in 1970 by Patricia Breakell

This is the place where in the early 1960s I took my mother to visit and stay with her sister Bertha. During our stay my mother and Bertha (there was another sister called Freda, she moved ...Read more

A memory of Misterton by Anthony Spracklen

My mother's father and mother Mr & Mrs Tom Dibble lived in the Cooperage, Stockland. Thomas's parents Thomas snr and Jane (nee) Palmer had children Sam, George from the Old Oak pub on the Cornhill, Mary + Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Woolavington in 1930 by Audrey Spearing

I would define the center of Sheriff Hill to be the intersection of Southend Terrace, Windy Nook Road, Sodhouse Bank, and Church Road. I was born not 100ft from the intersection on Windy Nook Road. Our cottage ajoined the ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1942 by Robert Hall