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This was the year that I was christained there. My grand parents and great grand parents attended the chapel. As a child I also went to Sunday school there. It was a beautiful church and should have been given a ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1958 by Glenys Horton

Does anyone remember Greengate & Irwell, Irwell Works, off Ordsall Lane? From 1957 to 1962 I worked there as one of the three telephone operaters. I have very happy ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1957 by Jean Rowland

In the late 1950s, when I was around ten years old, I spent a number of school summer holidays staying with the McPherson family who lived on the fringes of Knighton Woods near Buckhurst Hill in Essex. On ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1957 by Barry Wenden

I was born in East Hill in 1949. I remember going to Sunday School in the hall just down the road while the main church was being rebuilt. My brother and I went to Saturday morning pictures and about that time there was a yo-yo craze ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1953 by Fran Butler

I used to live in Victoria Road and went to Netherfield Lane School, now a block of flats, opposite was a large hut building and I used to go there one evening a week for pirates when we could afford itm I loved it! And does ...Read more

A memory of Rawmarsh in 1956 by Christine Gambrill

I was brought up in St Helens and Billinge was a hilly country village that was five miles away. In the summer of 1949 or 1950 a group of us children of all ages took sandwiches and bottles of pop or water for a picnic on ...Read more

A memory of Billinge Scarr in 1950 by Sylvia Kendrick

I think the memory on Drapers Dairy was confused with Rackhams Bakery which was situated near the Crooked Billet pub and has since been demolished to make way for a block of flats. Drapers Dairy was at the bottom of the ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1954 by Peter Nevill

I have extremely fond memories of holidays staying here, for some years with the family who were great friends of my mum. There were endless cats and two goats called Sue and Jenny. Life was very different from our life in ...Read more

A memory of Great Doward in 1955 by Mavis Rand

I lived at 10 The Avenue, we were the Hillsdons. We walked up Shotover Hill, swam in the river, played in the woods and never went home all day, when we went out to play the only words we heard were "Be home before it gets dark", we had ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley in 1950 by Phyllis Elswick

My family name was Brewer and it seemed we went hop picking for ever. The last time was 1958. The following year my grandmother became ill and we could not go anymore. I was 12 the last time I went.  I have ...Read more

A memory of Yalding in 1958 by Patricia Seymour