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WE LIVED IN FARM LANE FULHAM SW6, IN A LOVELY O'L PREFAB. OUR LOCAL CHURCH WAS ST JOHN'S.

A memory of Fulham in 1959 by Margaret Young

As a native of St Blazey, I would like to write about the businesses there at the time. The first shop on the church side " The International Stores", a fine shop managed by Mr Vincent, who also owned the newsagents in Station ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1951 by Melville Grigg

Although I was actually born in Italy in 1953, where my father was stationed at the time, my parents moved back to Wales in 1955. Our first home was in Bargoed and then my mother Lina bought the Café in Nelson (opposite ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Cristina Del Sere

Have returned to Cornwall to try tracing some of the ancestors through graveyards and the Mormon Centre. Also found a brilliant library in Redruth on the day we were going home and found written info on John Carter ...Read more

A memory of Prussia Cove by Clare Brown

I moved to no 52 School Street around 1964 or 65. My parents were John & Vera - they were Irish. We lived next to Edna Brown who had Stephen, David and Lorraine. There were other people on the street - the ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey in 1965 by Anne Booth

Does anybody have any fond memories of St John the Evangelist secondary school from1966 -1972 when it was a boys, and girls were seperated by some very vicious nuns, Sister I and Sister M. ...Read more

A memory of Droylsden in 1960 by Chris Farrell

We lived in the Peabody estate. 6M, 13U and finally 4A as the family grew from me to finally 4 children. We were very privileged and had a bath under a table top in the kitchen, originally heated with a boiler, coal ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by John Faulkner

My mum was born in Coathill Street in the Wifflet at the start of the war in 1939; she had 3 sisters Mary, Nan and Phyllis, and a brother John. I think she attended the local school at the bottom of Coathill St. She used to tell me many a ...Read more

A memory of Coatbridge by Sandra Pettit

my dad fred hunter was the 1st cemetery suprintendant of horden cemetery ,my mam eva was a sherburn hill lass until marrying my dad and moving into the cemetery house ,I can recall my mam saying as we looked out of the house window ...Read more

A memory of Horden by benoni65

My Father's parents Patrick and Catherine Donnelly, went to live in No 3 Alpine Terrace sometime in the early 1900s They were to have 6 children with my Father being the youngest. Granddad was a Miner and the family were ...Read more

A memory of Uddingston by Moira Jones