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It has gone the old drill hall I was born in vine street in 1947. Father was TA the 506 field squadron Royal engineers so my the connection with the building lasted a long time.I watched the Coronation in the drill hall the only TV around ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by colin.lancaster666

I'm Mandy Coggins and I was born at 7 Peel Road, Kilburn in 1960. It was a beautiful Victorian House and I can remember the marble fireplaces, oak staircase that us kids used to slide down. My nan lived ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by mandalynca

I have been told of old troedy many times and been driven through it to Bargoed, not much there now just a post office. My step father Cyril Heath was born there in September 1934, quite a large family so ...Read more

A memory of Troedrhiwfuwch by Andrew Dexter

I was born in Bolton on Dearne in 1948; my grandfather was Guy Lewis the Goldthorpe chemist whose shop was in Doncaster Road. My grandparents lived in Market Street (number 5) Has anyone a photograph that might show the chemists shop? My grandfather retired about 1963. David Lewis

A memory of Goldthorpe by David Lewis

On the maternal side of my ancestry, I knew my maternal grandfather for many years. There was a large leather bound family album which as a child, I was permitted to look at. It was after the "all clear" sounded in the ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury

My name is Nigel Redding and I was sent to Llangynwyd about 1942/43? as an evacuee. I was aged about 3 or 4 years old and accompanied by my older brother Alan who was 5 years older. (Both born in Rogerstone , ...Read more

A memory of Llangynwyd by Phillip Redding

i was born and grew up in park row, near the pit where my dad worked all his life, my parents were Elsie and Crispin Ellis, I went to normanton common and normanton modern school from where i left in 1963, i love normanton, but the old town before the motorway.

A memory of Normanton by malcolmharry

I was born in Park Royal Hospital in November 1951. Lived for a while in Willesden High Road. We then moved to Severn Way, which was off Denzil Road. I went to school at Dudden Hill Infants School. Then I went to St.Marys Junior school. ...Read more

A memory of Willesden by lynne_whicker

I was born at 11, Church Road, Byfleet - the gardener's cottage, tied to 'Wey Barton', Mill Lane. That was then the residence of the Coles family, to whom my grandparents, Bert & Nellie Bird, were in service. ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet by bobhunt1946

I served my apprenticeship at Bennett&Sayers from 1964 to 1972, the scrap yard opposite was always called Frank Radfords, further up Nuns street [over the bridge] this was the original Samways for the highways,[now ...Read more

A memory of Derby by geoff.barker