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I was 8 years old when this picture was taken. It is hard to express how evocative this innocuous little picture is to me. Is that a box of tissues on the right?. Well this picture really set me off blubbing. At this ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst in 1955 by jeanhaedicke

I was born in No. 23 Hastings Street  in 1950 (is anyone still living there?). Moved away 1968. Was a regular client of the cinema (flea pit) at Klondyke. I remember the coal trains running above the road between High Pit and ...Read more

A memory of Cramlington in 1950 by Mick Flynn

I went to school and we had to go down High Street every day and we had to go for lunch every day, I miss my home town. My name is June Mackman Warner.

A memory of Holbeach in 1954 by June Mackman

Wonderful memories of Saturday morning pictures - we would all line up outside the Majestic Picture House as it was called and monitors would walk up and down the line to make sure we were not too noisy and kept us in our place, ...Read more

A memory of King's Lynn in 1952 by faypurdy

I was born in the cottage in the courtyard, the youngest of three. My brother, Tony, sister Sheila, who now lives not too far away from Matlask, and have some wonderful memories of the Hall. Summer days seemed ...Read more

A memory of Barningham Hall in 1950 by Peter Mackay

I was born in Withington Hospital and brought up for many years in Baguley Hall, I always remember the good times where all the children and the parents came out to play as one, no nastiness, no keep up with the Jones, we all helped each ...Read more

A memory of Baguley in 1951 by Howard Oakley

During 1956/57 my parents lived at Oldington, off the Bridgnorth road and my local school was at Worfield. I was 6 years old at the time and attended the school there with my older cousins, Olive, Micheal and Alan ...Read more

A memory of Worfield in 1956 by First Name Last Name

My dad was Cyril Henry Sprake, I have memories of travelling to Eype to see my gran, she was Day then. As grandad and uncle Robert died during the war, I am interested in knowing which of the local Sprake families was grandad's. I ...Read more

A memory of Eype's Mouth in 1953 by Leslie Sprake

I am Kenneth Overend Edwards from LLandudno, north Wales, and my story about Gorton is surprising because from an early age I was sent by my mother Ellen Edwards (nee Overend) to stay with my grandad, Eric Theodore Overend, who ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1952 by Ken Edwards

THE SATURDAY MORNING MATINEE Of course you remember it ... well most of us do!!! It all seems so long ago now! but it's beginning to drift up from the fog of 'times gone by'. Hot and damp and steaming gently in the ...Read more

A memory of Felling in 1955 by David Hinge