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I just got a personal message from Pat McLaren/Jim Munday, but didn't have the sense to reply immediately and now I've 'lost' it. We are related and I have lots of Census records, birth records which I'd like to share with you. You ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead by Robert Hall

I too lived in Bell Street, Bell Terrace number 4. I lived next door but one from the Turners. I went to school with Teddy Turnner, and his brother. My mother was great friends with Ellsie. My family name is Walker, there were ...Read more

A memory of Old Basford in 1958 by Donald Walker

I was happily transported back to my childhood reading some of the memories on this page and thought I would share some of my own. I was born in 1951 in a tiny one up, one down house in Laneside, Yews Green. ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury in 1951 by Anne Clarke

I see on the headline you say that Bocckleton School closed in 1958 - I lived in Middle Common, in the cottage opposite the post box, and went to school there until it closed in 1962! I then went to Tenbury Junior School (1st ...Read more

A memory of Bockleton in 1962 by Richard Smith

I was at St Johns in the early sixties, living in Timson St and then corner of Ashto Rd and James St. Teachers I remember were Mr Sanderson, Mrs Ibbotson, Mrs Varney, Mrs Butler, Mrs Gower Jones. Happy days. I remember old Ma ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth by Jeff Hardwick

When the Beatles took off in the early sixties, me and my friends couldn't believe it in those dark rainy school days mornings, something to brighten them up, so we used to pretend to be the Beatles. I was John Lennon. ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1964 by Tommy Loomes

I came to live with my grandparents in Treasury View after my mother had died in a car accident where we lived, on the Isle of Wight. I had been to Ickham before as a baby, and in later years was told many times by neighbours of ...Read more

A memory of Ickham in 1964 by Deborah Sawyers

My grandfather bought Hendersons in c1911 and it was the principal drapers and furnishers in the town until my Dad sold the business c1961. It then became a John Blundells and is now I believe the Waitrose in the Old High Street. ...Read more

A memory of Stevenage in 1945 by Philip Henderson

Samuel Seward and his partner Elizabeth Vincent, lived at Whitstone from the 1850's and they had thirteen children.He farmed at Whitstone Cross, and after Elizabeth's death he married a Selina Mary Mardon Lock. Samuel died ...Read more

A memory of Whitstone in 1860 by John Ball

I grew up between 1946-1957 in Durham Buildings. I wonder if anyone else who reads this website has similar memories. Playing on the bomb sites across the road, Saturday morning pictures (Flash Gordon etc.), ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1950