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I recogise the picture but from my memory the school was called Sutherland Primary School and the building towards the back was Sutherland Junior School. Not sure where the name Smiths Arms comes from. There was a pub ...Read more

A memory of Blurton in 1969

We moved to Stephenson Avenue in 1968. We were The Jackson family. We spent most of our days on the Daisy Field and the park, there was the tennis courts, the bowling green and as well as football pitches we had the cricket ground as well.

A memory of Tilbury in 1968 by Susan Baxter

Living on the outskirts of a large Midland city, and having Welsh parents, a visit to Sebastopol was also exciting and eventful. My grandmother had sold Hill Cottage and bought 21 South Street, which was more manageable, as ...Read more

A memory of Sebastopol in 1962 by Jeff Evans

Born in Tooting in 1949, I lived only a walk to the top of my road to the common. Me and my friends used to play cowboys and hide up the trees to ambush my friend's sister who was always with us, all good ...Read more

A memory of Tooting Bec Common in 1961 by Norman Ellis

We were married in 1964 and in July we went on holiday, returning to floods which had just happened the day before. My parents' greengrocer's shop on Water Street was a mess and the cottage was even worse. The first thing we saw when we ...Read more

A memory of Earby in 1964 by Enid Goacher(Nee Mason)

This certainly brings back some memories. I can remember my father plus a number of other people going to the Clock House Dairy in the High Street, to collect the milk, during the bad winter of 1963 when the snow prevented ...Read more

A memory of Crowborough in 1963

I was a policeman in Newmarket from 1962 -1970 and well remember having to stand in the glass tower in the middle of the roundabout controlling the traffic using the part-time traffic lights on ...Read more

A memory of Newmarket in 1964 by Roger Brunning

When I was a kid it never went dark when it did I saw a tomato man in Davyhulme Park. One of my memories

A memory of Davyhulme in 1966 by Max Fearnley

I was at Park Hall Camp from March until May 1962 with 17 Training Reg R.A. I remember standing to attention on the drill square as a seventeen and a half year old boy wondering what had hit me, and the Crewe-bound train passing and the ...Read more

A memory of Oswestry in 1962 by Malcolm Bowen

I wasn't around in 1913, but went to Broussa School  on Broomfield Lane from 1961-1963.  It was there I first heard of the Beatles!  A girl in the middle school brought in the 'Please please me' album and played it to us 10 year olds ...Read more

A memory of Hale in 1962 by Karen Wright