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I lived in Holly Street, North Kilbowie, I was born there 1949. My gran and grampa moved into 1 Holly Street in 1939 before the Second World War. The stories they knew about the blitz were funny as well as tragic. I lost my ...Read more

A memory of Clydebank in 1954 by John Mac Dougall

My memory is my first day of school. I hated it - all I wanted to do was go home, I did not want stay there. My family lived in Port Isaac all my life and generations before us. Myself and my sister were very happy ...Read more

A memory of Port Isaac in 1959 by Miss Patricia

I had a fantastic childhood living in Sale Moor. I suppose one of my most vivid memories was selling the evening paper "Empire News" from the front of the Temple Inn to the crowds attending the Warwick Picture house on Temple Road junction ...Read more

A memory of Sale in 1950 by David Gilmartin

I was an apprentice at the Rheostatic Co (later Satchwell Controls) from 59 to 64 and I was the apprentice's entertainments organiser from around 60 to 63 and I organised quarterly dances at the Adelphi Ballroom; they were always ...Read more

A memory of Slough in 1958 by Jim Bowens

I worked and lived at the Golden Lion Hotel, beginning when I was 19, fresh out of Westminster Hotel School, when I was a trainee/assistant manager there from 1959-63 or 64, with the exception of the winter of 1962/63 when I worked ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1959 by Dylan Rivis

I was born in 1951 and lived in Middlefield Road, Mistley with my parents, sister and brother. My maiden name was Lay - Flurrie. I attended Mistley Norman School in 1956 my teacher being Miss Temple, Headmaster was Mr Thompson. ...Read more

A memory of Mistley in 1956 by Heather Self

I lived in Temple Fortune about a mile north of Golders Green up the Finchley Road, along which passed buses and trolleybuses going up to Finchley and Barnet, and south to Baker Street, Trafalgar Square and London. In the 1940s ...Read more

A memory of Golders Green in 1953 by R Stonhold

Wonderful teachers, Mr Croydon French Latin some sports. Mr Chester Woodwork Gym and cricket. Millicent Millington Mathematics. Mr Webb History and Geography. Mr Davy Sciences. The grounds were very woody and the air ...Read more

A memory of Welwyn Garden City in 1956 by Nigel Seccombe