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Nostalgic memories of Calmore's local history

Share your own memories of Calmore and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

Why not add your memory today and become part of our Memories Community to help others in the future delve back into their past.

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Displaying Memories 11 - 17 of 17 in total

That Takes Me Back......
I went to Lady Margaret after leaving Featherstone Rd Infants , left in 1969 for Walford sec mod while all my mates went off to Southall and Greenford Grammars. Lived over the Woodstock Parade shops just opposite the Seagul pub.My fondest memories of my time there are Maurice the mynah bird outside the heads office, i think it was Mr Lewis at the time. loved the quadrangle where the chickens and other things were, ...see more
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Added 26 June 2017

St Albans Catholic Church School, Hall Street, Macclesfield
Hello does anyone remember St Albans Catholic School on Hall Street in Macclesfield? They had infants and older years i think but certainly up to about 9. I am trying to find just about anyone who remembers this school before it was pulled down. I used to go there in the late 40s and into the 50s. I would love for anyone to share their experience of this school and do you ...see more
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Added 11 June 2017

Happy Childhood In Calmore
My family was bombed out of their home in Sholing, Southampton, and we were evacuated to Calmore Road which was then 'out in the country'. We were offered a corrugated hut to live in by Mr Harrison who owned the Nursery, and there we lived until 1946. All my memories as a child are happy ones, but I suspect it was difficult for my parents who had lost everything. The hut was never meant for habitation, ...see more
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Added 07 February 2014

Charles Henry And Maria Broomfield
I am trying to trace my family tree. I am looking for any info about the Broomfield family. Mr Charles Henry Broomfield born 1855 buried 14th June 1937 aged 83 in St Johns, Marchwood. Also his wife Mrs Maria Broomfield (Webb), born 1855, died 1942 aged 88, same grave. Children; Charles H Broomfield (1879-1947) son, Annie Maria (1882) daughter, Rose Elizabeth (1885) daughter, Mary (1888) dau, ...see more
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Added 16 May 2013

Old Calmore
We came to live in Calmore in 1945 at 304 Calmore Road. We used to have the milk delivered by horse and cart. My mother would go out with her tin jug and I would follow her and get up on the cart and he would turn round and we would go down Webbs Lane to the farm 'where the pub is' and I would get off and walk down the other lane where the hillybillies lived (that's what I called them) and then I would walk back ...see more
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Added 17 October 2011

Calmore My Childhood
I grew up in Old Calmore at Croft Farm. My parents, Cyril and Winifred Pass, bought the property when they returned from India in 1947, and we lived in the 'pump house' until the bungalow was built in 1949. My earliest clear memory was moving in on my third birthday, carrying the pots and pans up through the field on that freezing day in February. The old pre-Tudor barn on the smallholding was built from ...see more
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Added 19 July 2009

Calmore
Does anyone else remember old Mr Brown who lived up the lane from St Anne's Church? He couldn't read or write. He had a cow that followed him about. He'd never been to Southampton even though it was only 7 miles away. He used to sit outside his front gate in the sunshine and wave his walking stick at passing traffic. He told me he wanted to be "an old rooster, who sits where he likes". I loved that old man, but I never really knew him.
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Added 21 June 2009