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My mum & dad along with my brother & me came to live in Fovant in 1952. Mum & dad owned the butchers shop in the village. My brother Brian & me went to the school, we both made lots of friends. It was a good ...Read more

A memory of Fovant in 1953 by Sheila Guilfoyle

We moved to Irby from Selsdon, Surrey, in 1957 and I can remember Mathews' paper shop and the hardware shop owned, I think, by the Carters. I also remember that beautiful cottage that was demolished to make way for that dreadful library ...Read more

A memory of Irby in 1957 by Susan Reid Povall

I remember being sent to Selmes the Butchers to buy my Mother Mrs Dora Maynard, cuts of meat. The floor was covered in sawdust and there was a little cashiers office at the end of the counter. It always had a very friendly ...Read more

A memory of Bletchingley in 1959 by Helen Swabey

my first job at Tanners butchers that sold the best pies sausages and other foods ,I was there from 1959 till 1970 . fantastic place to work met lots of the stars of that time , and the locals were always so kind and giving ...Read more

A memory of Canford Cliffs in 1959 by Cyril Duffin

I was born over the butchers shop in Harborne Lane, my parents Harry and Gertrude Ludlow owned the shop. My mother kept the shop open all through the war years and I can remember marking off the meat ration books when I ...Read more

A memory of Harborne in 1956 by Graham Ludlow

Lovely childhood memories of Valley Road in the 1950`s, lived there from 1952 till 1956. I was one of five children living with my parents; my dad worked at the Tunnel as he called it. I remember getting chased off from wandering ...Read more

A memory of Nuneaton in 1953

My mother was Blanche Jones and she lived as a child in a house called 'Barcelona' on Victoria Street. My grandmother lived there until she died c.1960. My aunt Marion and uncle Dyfrig (Davies) and their son Bryan ...Read more

A memory of Pontycymer in 1956 by Nesta Jones Lapsley

My family took over the butchers in Swallowfield, it used to be called Turners. My father-in-law, everyone knew him as Curly, was quite a character. It was a family concern and my job was to make local deliveries in an ...Read more

A memory of Swallowfield in 1957

My father was the village policeman until 1958 and we lived in the Police House which doubled as a Police Station (there was a counter for public use at the front of the house). We left for Corby in 1958 when I was 6. My memories ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Halse in 1957 by Alan Hamilton

The public telephone in this picture of Tredegar Street was outside my father's butcher shop. There were only two buttons to press: button A and button B, but people were terrified of pressing the wrong one. My father, Gomer Mumford, used ...Read more

A memory of Risca in 1955 by Cedric Mumford