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Hello Billy And Heggies, Boormans and Ellis's, Melia's, Grants the Chandlers, the Coop...(later across the road), Midland Bank, Linda Gail, The Dairy... The Parish Hall Down Leasowe Road, Paulie's Field, Whites sweetshop, Cross ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1955 by David Santos

I was called up under the Bevin Scheme in April, 1944, and after a rather indifferent training at Annfield Plain Training Centre, was sent to the Hobson, as I was staying at the time in lodgings in Burnopfield with a Mrs. Crisp, ...Read more

A memory of Burnopfield in 1944 by George Rayner

My parents took myself and my late brother to Westgate on Sea almost every Easter from 1959 to 1971. Living in west London we caught the 2.40pm train from Victoria, arriving at Westgate on Sea about ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by Philip Clarke

Hi to all who may read this and maybe remember my family. My father was born in Stretton in 1920 and lived next door to a Granny Coombs in the centre of the village with his mother Niome, father Jack, ...Read more

A memory of Stretton under Fosse in 1955 by Shelia Deakin

I still remember the Co-operative in the 1960s being used as a funeral home for a while, William Brown I think he was called, memory goes a little but I vaguely remember the old man who worked on the desk there dying just after ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1960

I remember the old funeral home on Jackson Street, or as I knew it as, Jackson Chare, eee it was a long time ago, old man died there in what is now the Co-op, died there shortly after he opened it one day, long ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Ronnie Taylor

These cottages are now known as Ryders, but it appears that in Edwardian times the place (or maybe this corner) may also have been known as "Seven Trees Well": I have a postcard with this picture on it sent on 7th May 1906 to a ...Read more

A memory of Okewood Hill in 1900 by Gary Crouch

I was born in 1947 at Birch Haill Hospital and lived in Castleton, first on Manchester Road and later Alder Road until I got married at St. Gabriel's Church. My maiden name was Jackson. I attended Castleton ...Read more

A memory of Castleton in 1957 by Irene Tuck

My memories of Acton Bridge go back to the mid 1950s and early 1960s. The picture of boats at Acton Bridge Cruising Club takes me back to my teenage days. We had a boat called 'Scampi' which was a 32-foot ex-Norwegian ...Read more

A memory of Acton Bridge in 1957 by Laurie Hatchard

My grandfather, Robert Urquhart, was born at Mosside of Longfolds, in the parish of Bourtie, 11th January 1874. His parents were James Urquhart and Mary Ann Urquhart, nee Jackson. Mary Ann died 20th ...Read more

A memory of Kirkton of Bourtie in 1870 by R Urquhart