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When I Was A Boy

Now a resident and Parish Councillor in Devon the Frith photos of Stonehouse took me instantly back to my early years growing up in the village. Not surprisingly one of my earliest memories is of the celebrations surrounding the ...Read more

A memory of Stonehouse in 1953 by Keith Phillips

Frogmoor, High Wycombe

I arrived in High Wycombe in as a young girl in 1946, from Scotland. I attended St. Bernard's Convent school. It was situated in a very large old house on the London Road, across from the Rye. We wore school uniforms, ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1955 by Maureen Ingram

Mrs Porrits

Mrs Porrit's dance hall!  That's a name to stir memories.  Saturday nights at Mrs Porrit's, strict tempo dancing with just a spot of rock and roll, no drinking in the coverted chapel and an old black and white telly in a back room where ...Read more

A memory of Farsley in 1958 by Peter Worley

Those Were The Days 4

Then there was the greatest fish and chip shop in the world PESCIES. Decorated in true Italian style of painted scenes of the blue waters and gondolas of Venice with beautiful wood booths with frosted glass scenes and marble ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1950 by Chrs

Childhood Days 1954 On

Is the pile of sand the remains or the beginning of the Toc-H altar we used to, as children, help build on the beach for sunday service with Toc-H? When the beach huts blew down and we skipped school to help clear up, ...Read more

A memory of Perranporth in 1955

Boating Lake

I remember the boating lake very well and I loved being taken on it by visiting relatives. The boats were dark red and had rope 'bumpers'round them and at the end of the day they all used to be collected up together in the middle of ...Read more

A memory of Hastings in 1957

Rock Park Swimming Pool

I attended the North Devon Technical School in the late 50's having passed the 13+ from Barnstaple Secondary Modern ( I've yet to meet anyone that took the 13+ in recent years) I must have been about 14 -15 when the ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1958 by John Cole

Newburn Shops

As I told you, in Millfield there was only one shop, 'Jacksons', and two houses, Sewells and Gribbles, both in Victoria Terace where they turned their front parlour into shops. Sewells was run by Anne Veitche's mother, a nice lady, ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

Arthur Dolphin A Great Local Climber Remembered

A new book "Memories of Dolphin - a climber's life remembered" celebrates the late great, Baildon-born, climber Arthur Dolphin. Compiled and edited by Hebden Bridge author Tom Greenwood, the book is ...Read more

A memory of Baildon in 1953

Fifties Par

My parents opened Roselyon School, on the St Blazey road out of Par, in 1953, when I was nine years old, and ran it until they retired in 1970. Hence I knew Par pretty well both as young boy, teenager and young adult. Walking into Par ...Read more

A memory of Par in 1959 by Richard Tomlinson

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