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Hello. Just been looking at some of your letters. I remember Jack Hopes farm in Norton, my mate worked for him for many years and also Mr Clowes. I do remember him, I worked down Askern pit and I ...Read more

A memory of Askern in 1964 by John Lancaster

Does anyone know anything about this boys home. I ended up there about 66-67 for about a year. My only parent, my mother had died, and I ended up in this hell hole for ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1966 by Roger Haspeck

I first attended this camp in 1954 as a baby of 10 months of age and my first experience of the sea was with my father at that tender age. I attended for at least the next 10 years and learned to ...Read more

A memory of Pagham in 1960 by David Styles

Can anybody remember when you walked up the fells at Throckley, half way up you passed on your right a farm or house where a girl called Cheryl Lawson lived. Straight past that and carry on to the top and turn right, on your ...Read more

A memory of Throckley in 1960 by Mary Dockerty

My nan and aunt used to live on Corringham Rd. I spent nearly all my summer hols at no 60. My aunt Molly Mcdade was organist at the church. I remember the smell of bonfires on a summers evening. My nan was called Nin. My aunt always rode a Raleigh bike.

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1968 by Anne Dilley

Four Kilbirnie men were walking home after a shift in the steelworks, this would be after ten at night; it was a Friday and in those days people were paid in cash. Archie Allan, better known as Big Airchie, Wullie Mcgookin, ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie in 1960 by John Allan

From the 1960's We lived on Octavia House, I am Mike kilburn, there was my sister Susan, and brother Paul. My mother was Pat, sadly deceased. We moved to Dequincey house after living for some years on Octavia. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1960 by Mike Kilburn

I have very fond memories of Bearman's and the Christmas Wonderland ride is still very vivid in my mind 50 odd years later. My grandmother took me ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1960 by Denise Bach Samuel

I well remember my school days at Watford Chater Junior School from 1957 to 1964, getting sick from drinking to much school milk, as class milk monitor with my friend Victor Oliver. Getting a splinter in my bottom, ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1964 by Andrew Jennings

Me and that lampost know each other quite well, my dad and I were walking towards Cob's Corner to catch the No 12 bus home from having our hair cut at Mr Davy's, the Cypriot barbers at the bottom of the high street. For ...Read more

A memory of Sydenham in 1962 by Wayne Ruffle