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I married Jack Raphael in St John's Church and was his wife for thirteen years. It used to take hours to go up one side of the street then cross over and down the other. It's not like that now - five minutes does it! There was Wallace ...Read more

A memory of Carluke in 1961

I have a very good photo of a small branch of Barclays with some well dressed children in the street outside. It appears to date from the 1920's - 1930's. Bought on another website in 2013. The website also featured other photos of ...Read more

A memory of Prees in 1920 by Trevor Jones

Remember Mr Lockwood very well used to smoke a pipe and grow his own tobacco and lecture us on the evils of smoking. Big excitement when the older girls who slept in the annex were caught smoking and were moved back into the main building in ...Read more

A memory of Bacton in 1960 by Malcolm Foster

My great uncle, James Thomas Bigrig, served on HMS Impregnable from 1901-1902 and also lived many years in Devonport. My mother, Doris Marion Tillyard, was raised there too as were many of my ancestors from the Lewis, Moore, Pearne and ...Read more

A memory of Devonport by Robert Pavlick

Many of my ancestors going back to 1755 from the Lewis and Pearne families of Devonport worked as shipwrights and artisans at the Royal William Yard. My 5th Great-Grandfather William Lewis was a shipwright there from 1766-1769 ...Read more

A memory of Devonport by Robert Pavlick

I met my wife Pamela there in Oct 1958 at a Dance, we now live in Western Australia where we have been for the last 41 years.

A memory of Leicester by John Dunkley

My name is Bill Maundrill, brother of Brian, I was born in 1941 in the Firs Cottage and went to Farrington School. Tony Brimble lived next door and his father kept pigeons, Phillip Payne and John, Ducky Rogers, ...Read more

A memory of Farrington Gurney by william.maundrill

Hallo, my grandfather Frank Sherwood worked at the factory in 1939, and the family lived in the Broadstone area. Does anyone have any memories to share about the factory of the Sherwoods?

A memory of Broadstone by Sally Preece

I was born in December 1947 at 124 Clowes Street, West Gorton in a terraced house between William Street and Elizabeth Street, directly opposite Bert Hall's butcher's shop and next door to the Beswick ...Read more

A memory of West Gorton by clowesstreet

When I was in the choir at St. Michaels and all Angels in the late 1950's we used to line up on either side of the path in front of the memorial for the wreath laying. I wonder if a choir still attends this ceremony as St. Michael's ...Read more

A memory of Weybridge by Graham Hagley