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In the 1960's Hartington Youth Hostel was a big modern and clean place to stay - yet strangely it was in a beautiful old stone building up the hill from the village. I remember my visit in summer 1967: I was ...Read more

A memory of Hartington in 1967 by John Howard Norfolk

My parents, younger brother and I moved to Tidworth in 1938 when I was 3 and my brother 1 year old. I was born in Collingbourne Ducis and we spent a very short time in Ludgershall but, as I understand it, the new council houses ...Read more

A memory of Tidworth in 1940 by Paul Vivash

I was born in Royston in 1949, some four years after the war. The thing about me I have a very good memory of thing that had occurred within my childhood days, some of which, like everyone else would like to forget. I recall ...Read more

A memory of Royston by Roland Mitchell

I have very fond memories of Salford. I first lived in Franklin St, Ordsall, until I was about 4 or 5 years old. I recall the pub on the corner and the church at the other end. I lived on the landings facing the resevoirs. I ...Read more

A memory of Salford by Barbara Webb (Dore0

H.M.S. Sylph went hard aground on Aberavon Beach after breaking her towing hawsers during a storm while being towed across Swansea Bay to be scrapped in Newport. This was in April 1927. Attempts to ...Read more

A memory of Pontrhydyfen in 1920 by Gwyn Morgan

I worked at Avery's in Foundry Lane. The Avery's "bull" used to blow for start of work and lunch time and could be heard for miles. Soho Road was full of great shops including Woolworths, Tibbits, Pendries, Wilkinsons, The ...Read more

A memory of Handsworth

I was born in Bowness in Homestead Cottage which was next to the post office. The cottage had been the village shop, and was bought by my parents Harold and Marian Brown and converted into a home. Ada ...Read more

A memory of Bowness-on-Solway by Marcia Kell

My mother, then called Billie Gwilliam, was living in New Cross in South London with her parents Bill and Connie Gwilliam during the Blitz of the Second World War, and has many memories of what it was like ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1940 by Julia Skinner

Adams had a poultry farm in Duck Pond Lane (left hand side of Sainsburys). They lived in a big grand house at the bottom of Woodchurch Lane; it fronted onto Prenton Road West. There was a plaque on the outhouse door ...Read more

A memory of Oxton in 1954 by David Wharton

This view is of Queen Street, just before the junction with High Street. The TOBACCO shop building is still there and is now a newsagent. The properties between this and the Royal Exchange were demolished and ...Read more

A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1951 by David Hawkes