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Lived at 22 Darcy Street and then Esh Hillside. Went to Petries Ice-Cream Shop, mainly Fridays and Saturday nights. Happy times, great music and company. My dad and three uncles all worked at the pit. In 1955 I joined the ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park in 1953 by Keith Carney

It's the 5th February 1953 in the front upstairs bedroom of 15 Elm Street, and Abercwmboi welcomes a new resident - me! The house belonged to my grandparents, William Joseph and Claudia Morris. I was to remain a resident there for ...Read more

A memory of Abercwmboi in 1953 by Martin Wale

I was brought up in Weaverham. We had lots of fun in Hazel Wood. I lived at 8 Meadow Road. I spent hours in the wood watching birds build their nests and watching wild life. We used to go to Owley Wood - there was an old ...Read more

A memory of Weaverham in 1953 by David Stubbs

Lovely childhood memories of Valley Road in the 1950`s, lived there from 1952 till 1956. I was one of five children living with my parents; my dad worked at the Tunnel as he called it. I remember getting chased off from wondering near ...Read more

A memory of Nuneaton in 1954

I was born the day my parents moved to Sshilbottle. We lived at 16 Farne View but this was later changed to 16 St James Road. Nearly everyone's dad worked at the pit. Shilbottle seemed to be split in two - we had our own Church of ...Read more

A memory of Shilbottle in 1954 by Edith Frearson

I was born in 1949 and lived at the top of Haig Road. The road, at that time was a stoney lane. As you turned into the lane there were a few houses to the right and a sand pit to the left. At the top of the hill ...Read more

A memory of Fair Oak in 1954 by Karen Donohoe

I was also a pupil at St Catherine's; 1954 to 1962 were my years. I remember Mr Thunder, art and geography teacher, Mr Smith, Deputy head; later married someone from the Bristol Old Vic, Mr Sydey, ex Royal Navy Captain but unable to ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury in 1954 by Peter Adams

If anyone were to ask me when I was most happy, I would have to go back some considerable time to those years spent in Wheatley Hill, more especially the late 1940s all of the 1950s and early 1960s. Truly magical times, ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley Hill in 1954 by Frank Dinsdale

In 1954 I was 10 and went to the junior school in Horden, then moved on to the Secondary Modern, where I learnt to play the violin, the music teacher was Mr Neal and the head master was Mr James. After leaving school I went ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1954 by Vernon Keighley

Lumb Mill in the 1950s I remember my late mother and father working at this mill in the 1950s. My father worked as a boiler man. As a child I visited the mill during the school holidays also at weekends. I used to join my father in ...Read more

A memory of Edenfield in 1954 by Kenneth Drummond