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I spent most of my summers camping in Bontddu at the camp site Tyddyn Du, with my Nan (Kate), Billy and my Aunts and Uncles. Every bank holiday and our two week holidays were spent there. Myself and my cousin Robert, must have ...Read more

A memory of Bontddu in 1975 by Keith Brown

This is what we always called Fivo or the proper name was Five Lane Ends. Some people just called it Skellow with it being the next village. The garage is on the left just out of shot - I remember that being run by Elaine & Pat, and ...Read more

A memory of Skellow in 1975 by Mick Barnett

Newbiggin was the place I was brought up and spent many happy years on the sands and in the sea until I was 18. Life then took me to London to train to be a teacher. My parents had a house in Windsor Terrace where dad still lives ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin in 1970 by Mary Heynes

I left Sandye school in 1970. We lived in Potton and I started work at Empsons garage as a trained mechanic. They also repaired lorrys there too - mainly Commer. It was owned and run by Bill Empson and Steve Whitbread ...Read more

A memory of Gamlingay in 1970 by Mark Barber

This beautiful house was owned by my grandparents many years ago and was the first place I lived, such a crying shame it is now flats, a piece of family history gone....

A memory of Fleet in 1979 by Louise Clark

I lived in Seacombe all my life, drank in five bars, Stanley Arms, Mona Castle, hung around with Jackie Beaty, Tommy Jones, Geoff Kilby, Bobby Benett, Johnny Rutter Sango, we had great times, went to the boys club. My friends were Tina ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1975 by June Hoey

I can remember when the snow on the roofs of the houses in Boosbeck, when it started to melt it would fall with a load thud lol. I used to love playing up Boosbeck Woods with my mates, Paul Bullock, Cliff Wood and Desmond Wood. ...Read more

A memory of Boosbeck in 1971 by Roy Hood

Can anyone tell me when the Black Bull and the Cross Keys got pulled down to make way for the Roundabout and junctions of Kendry, Ardsley, Wombwell and Lundwood. It was at the Cross Keys where my wife and I, had our ...Read more

A memory of Wombwell in 1973 by Roland Mitchell

Ah! How I well remember sharing times in a little unmodernised terraced house that my friend rented in Highlands Road in the early 1970s. The house was a little 2 up / 2 down with an outside loo & a little ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1972 by José Riley

30 years just passed but it still seems present, the time I spent in Witheridge since 24 December to 1st January when I got back to London and then flied back to Italy. I spent splendid days by a family of ...Read more

A memory of Witheridge in 1978 by Guido Caramia