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My name was Liz Shepherd and we were new arrivals. I remember Dick Broom in the village shop that sold everything from Brussell sprouts to Royal Doulton and was also the Post Office. The butcher would leave his straw hat ...Read more

A memory of Cottesmore in 1969 by Liz Crosland

Whilst I lived at Mattishall near Dereham in the early 1960's I became a regular visitor to the area in Summer and Winter, having use of a small boat at Burnham Overy Staithe. Fishing and full days out at ...Read more

A memory of Holkham in 1960 by Neville Orton

I moved to Slaugham from Canada in 1963 and lived there until 1967. I went to school in Handscross and later in Haywards Heath. I fondly remember the fox hunt going through the village each year and Guy Fawks day! ...Read more

A memory of Slaugham in 1963 by Gayle Jones Smith

I was born in White Roding in 1961. In 1968 my family and I went to live in Bishops Stortford. While we were there my father worked as a grave digger and landscape gardener in the local area. I fondly remember going to some of ...Read more

A memory of Little Hallingbury in 1968 by Rebel Evans

In 1964 my most profound memories were of staying with both my Grandparents in there home which was the old school house. George booth the local milkman had his dairy next door and every time i arrived i ...Read more

A memory of Hale in 1964 by Pollitt Dave

I remember visiting Holme -on-Spalding-Moor several times in the early and mid 1960s as a teenage schoolboy to view a yard of very salvageable Edwardian, vintage and 1930's cars which in those days had little ...Read more

A memory of Holme in 1963 by Mike Day

Each day my journey either was via the cinder track (there was the old reservoir running alongside and the iron railway bridge stood in those days, the railway was still operating I think or in the stages of being ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Halse in 1966 by Linda Edwards

St Mary's was a lovely church and I remember exploring the grave yard which went up a hill at the back accompanied by friends of my class. I remember the vicar 'Ross Sage' and when he used to visit the school. My ...Read more

A memory of Standon in 1963 by Sheena Dean

My first job when I left school (St Hughes, Park Road South) at 15 was in this shop. I was there for 3 years, until I left for bigger money at Levers. The manager was Jack Francis, a decent ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead in 1961 by Tony Duffy

The bike shop in Moor Street next to the central chip shop was Wilkinson's, also sold guns and fishing gear, got my maggots there for fishing in the nine locks, Pat Collins fair on the bank by Brierley Hill alliance ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill in 1960 by Alan Hinton