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My name is Rob Beilby and I grew up in Durham City from 1937 until 1966. I and my brothers Bryan and Jimmy lived in a pub called the "Angel Inn" at the top of Crossgate from 1937 until 1945 with ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park by Rob Beilby

I went to Chute school, starting in 1952 as a four year old. Many happy times at the school until, at the age of 11, I left to go to Andover Grammer. That was an enormouse school as in all my days at Chute St Nicholas there was never ...Read more

A memory of Upper Wield in 1952 by Dave Cleaver

My father was farm manager at Orange Court Farm from 1964-1967. We lived in one of the cedar wood bungalows put up in Littleton, I suspect in the early 1960s, by the More-Molyneux family for estate workers - they also owned the ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1964 by Andrew Webb

Bristol's historic King Street. The Llandoger Trow inn on right of photograph.King Street is a 17th-century street in the historic city centre of Bristol. The street lies just south of the old town wall and was laid out ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

My Memories of Lifton. I was born in 1946 lived in Lifton until I got married in 1971. I lived in Fore Street, next door lived Mr Brown, he used to repair shoes in his little shed in the garden and I used to watch him ...Read more

A memory of Lifton in 1960 by Brian Keighley

We lived in South Ockendon from 1957 until the 1960s and they were the happiest years of my life. My father was Mr Edward Bailey who was caretaker of Benyon School and the family lived in the school house, Mum, Ann, David and me ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1957 by Joy Gregory

Hello again. I started at Cold Ash School, St Marks C of E in 1953. The school consisted of the original brick building housing two class rooms and a large hall, plus a new wooden extension of two more class rooms ...Read more

A memory of Cold Ash by grahamfsmith

Wayne’s comment made me re-read my piece and I was driven to expand. This is St Gile’s Church. My parents were baptised and married here in 1937 and I was baptised and then confirmed by Mervyn Stockwood here. To ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Richard Norman

I do not have a memory to share, but hoping you may share some with me. I am researching my family tree and I had a lot of family members from Widnes. My grandfather Timothy Mitchell - born Galway, Ireland 1866 In 1881 he lived ...Read more

A memory of Widnes by millsc1

Have just come across this site by accident, and was amazed by the number of names I recognised from my childhood. I lived at no.82 celandine road from about 1953/54 until we moved to Fullerton crescent about 1965 approx. My name ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by tinker3110