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Maiden name Winter. I was born and raised in Gelli-gron Terrace, which you can see in this photo was a side street off Waunrhydd Road. The location from which this photo was taken we called 'the tump' where we children of ...Read more

A memory of Tonyrefail in 1956 by Lynnette Ganda

My parents moved to Bletchley from London early 1953, they first lived in St George's Road before moving to 35 St John's Road when I made my appearance shortly after Christmas. So much has changed since ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1953 by Alan Webb

I felt as though I grew up in Fauldhouse (I didn't), number 19 Barton Terrace. My mother Rebecca Alan's parents lived and died there. Her sister Cathy took the house over and then her cousin David. She had 3 brothers, Alan, ...Read more

A memory of Fauldhouse in 1958

I was born and lived the first ten years of my life in Pottery Street. '2 up 2 down' terraced houses with outside toilet. Across the road lived Horace Murfin, a bookie who could always be seen around on his bike collecting ...Read more

A memory of Rawmarsh in 1953 by Bernard Dudill

My Mum, Elizabeth Crawford married Dad and went to live in London.....I was brought to Kirkconnel at a month old and baptised in the Parish Church......every year we came up with Dad's motor bike and sidecar ...Read more

A memory of Kirkconnel in 1950 by Sarah Butt

I'm Glynne Lewis. I was born in Co. Durham but the Lewis family lived at 26, Gelli St. for many years. We visited the family during the 1950s and 60s although several of the sisters had moved to other parts of the UK by then. My ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1950 by Glynne Lewis

We would walk over the mountain, over what we called the racecourse into the forestry from Heath Terrace, Ynyshir to LLanwonno, the best part, I suppose, 4/5 miles walking. Usually on a Sunday, us boys together. I was ...Read more

A memory of Llanwonno in 1957 by Gareth Willi Ams

We were a dyed in the wool London family, some time before World War 11, 1939, we moved from Earlsmead Road to Breamar Road off West Green Road and lived there at number 73 untill 1951, when we moved out into the country to ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1951 by Charles Youens

At the age of 11 we moved here & a group of us could always be found (gambling our pocket money at cards) on the steps in the photo. It always amazed us the number of tourists who would enter the close asking ...Read more

A memory of Edinburgh in 1957 by Ian Tant

My maternal grandparents lived in Talbot House at the end of Scotch and Pritchard Row (Elizabeth and George Reed) my paternal grandmother lived in Blandy Terrace Robert (dec'd) and Mary Elizabeth Stephens. I used to ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1955 by Yvonne Smith