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I was born at 7 Osborne Street, 1948 and grew up there. I got married at 21 and moved to Tarvin Drive for several years before moving on to Hull and then Little Brington, Northamptonshire where I still am. I remember all ...Read more

A memory of Bredbury by Alan Atkinson

My grandparents used to run the Post Office at Carthew, I remember my Dad telling me that's where he grew up, but my earliest memories are of my grandparents living just down the road from there in Charlestown in a ...Read more

A memory of Carthew in 1952

I was brought up in Birkburn Road in Kirkconnel to parents, John and Joan White. We lived there until we went to live in England, March 28th, 1964. I loved living there with my gran 'n grandad; just down the road from us were ...Read more

A memory of Kirkconnel by Janet Simmons

I came to live with my grandparents in Treasury View after my mother had died in a car accident where we lived, on the Isle of Wight. I had been to Ickham before as a baby, and in later years was told many times by neighbours ...Read more

A memory of Ickham in 1964 by Deborah Sawyers

I grew up in Tiber in the 90's and moved to Crosshouse when I was 12/13. I always remember running through the fields and going walks up the back road with my papa and the dogs. I remember following the amateur football team aswell.

A memory of Knockentiber

The formative years of my early childhood were spent at No. 39 Bondgate, Pontefract, which was one of a block of four small two-up, two-down houses situated immediately adjacent to the ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract in 1930 by Graham Atkinson

I also remember the 'Splash'. We were told that some time in the past a Queen had crossed here with her ladies-in-waiting and that one of them had fallen in? Well, it's a good story. As a very horrible little boy, we used to ...Read more

A memory of Fetcham by Colin Plummer

I believe I was sent to Brentwood following a stay in Hither Green Fever Hospital with whooping cough. I seem to have been in a ward named Poplars 3. I have two very strong memories of that stay. I was 5 years old. First, I was ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood in 1930 by Beryl Padgham

I was born in 1946 and lived in Lamport Street, just off Warwick Street in Toxteth. We lived there until I was about 6 years of age. Because of town planning we had to move to Hawkstone Street but what I remember of ...Read more

A memory of Toxteth in 1950 by Richard Green

I went to Shaw House School in 1951 a section was then given over to boys as was predominately for Girls , I recently learned that Shaw was taken over as a School following a wartime bombing of a School close to Newbury Rail ...Read more

A memory of Newbury in 1951 by Percival Mills