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I lived in a number of houses in the area starting with Elstree Gardens in Lower Belvedere, where I went to St Augustines. I remember winning a raffle and taking a bunch of flowers home to my mum and my first goal ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere in 1961 by Steve Deveson

I came to Corby in 1966, we lived in 100a Rockingham Road, the flat above the old fire station which then became Kettering Tyres - my brother Eugene started working there at a very young age, being the tea boy. We where then moved to ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1969 by Jackie Finan

I attended Sedgeford County Primary School from 1962 to 1966. The Headmaster was a Mr Johnson, extremely nice man, and his daughter Catherine was in my class. My best buddy was David Murphy who I think has subsequently gone ...Read more

A memory of Sedgeford in 1962 by Jonathan Ratcliff

I went to the village infants school, I can remember the outlay of it as if it was yesterday, sadly its now a car park. I remember my 3rd year teacher, Miss Martin, she taught me how to plait hair, she had a plump face, ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1968 by Wendy Mehlin

Just outside Windsor is a place called St, Leonard's Hill where beyond there was a massive pig farm. Wall's Pork Sausages bought all the pigs. It was owned and run by a man called Lovejoy. I worked there when I was twenty years ...Read more

A memory of Old Windsor in 1969 by Roland Mitchell

I was at the Margaret Bevan Convalescent Home in 1967 for a month, I always remember it. I remember we used to do country dancing in a hut on the grounds of the home! We used to be taken into the village to buy sweets, stamps etc.. you could see North Wales from across the sea on a clear night!

A memory of Heswall in 1967 by Teresa Kearns

My Mum Elsie Hope and I (Ann Parkinson) ran the Post Office in Heysham Village at the height of its popularity, from 1962 to 1969. Those were the days of wakes weeks when visitors came flooding to Morecambe and Heysham. Apart ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heysham in 1962 by Ann Wemyss Cooke

With my family I moved to Cornwall in 1954, lived first in Hessenford then Seaton with my 2 brothers and 2 sisters, David, Tony, Lesley & Jane. My mother worked on the holiday camp. I went to Torpoint High ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1964 by Jon Sandy

It is all too easy to look back to the past and remember an idyllic picture of country life and forget how it was in reality, I often think back to when I was growing up in Claverley in the 1950s ...Read more

A memory of Claverley in 1961 by Philip Westwood

Lynette Carter (nee) Evans I was born in Glossip Terrace Hospital Splott Cardiff. My family and I first moved to Heol Cynllan Road, Llanharan when I was just over 2 years old. We lived with my Aunty Fanny and ...Read more

A memory of Llanharan in 1964 by Lynette Carter