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In the early 80's my dad was walking our dog in the park when he came across an eagle. Turned out it had been stolen from Colwyn Bay Zoo. He captured it with the dog's lead, ended up in the national press and got £100 reward. My ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by Helen Wilson

Since I was working for the firm that built the British Restaurant in North Harrow and I lived on Westmorland Road I had a quick ride to work each morning. Once all the plumbing was done I had to go to ...Read more

A memory of North Harrow by Vincent Holmwood

Alfred Ellington. 01-06-2013. My earliest memorys are during the war when we lived in the rear half of the old Star public house. l would have been 11/12 and l remember helping father put earth on small fire bombs ...Read more

A memory of Ramsey St Mary's in 1940 by Alfred Ellington

Another thing that I remember was bath night. Notice I said night and not nights!! We had a tin bath which had to be filled up by boiling kettles and saucepans. My young brother would go in first, then me, after me was ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1949 by Janet Moran

I was born at Low Westwood, a small mining village in the North East of England in 1955 – well, when I say I was born there, that’s not entirely true. Unlike today, children were born at ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1960 by Kathy Aveyard

I grew up here from 1953 to 1970 when I left the village and went to sea in the Merchant Navy.Born in the only cottage next to the hospital at end of Pant street, but at age of 5 moved to Highfield Crescent where my parents lived all ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed by Stephen Hodges

I attended St. Joseph's College in nearby Ledsham and one day Brother Brown walked us all down to Rivacre Baths, which was absolutely freezing! Another school was visiting at the same time and offered to take us part of the way ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1966 by Tony Steadman

I was at Our Lady's from 1960 - '66. The most abiding memories are the smells - of disinfectant in the outside toilets, which were frozen in winter, and horrible lukewarm milk in those small bottles which were always ...Read more

A memory of Formby in 1960 by Frances Spall

I travelled to Collyer's School in Horsham from Holmwood between 1967 and 1972. I would leave my bike at a house around the corner after having cycled from Broome Hall, and hopefully be in time for the 8.32. If I missed that, ...Read more

A memory of Holmwood Corner in 1971 by Jeremy Morfey

My family and I lived in the old houses along the canal, there was a large archway leading into what we called the big yard, I was very small and can still remember the smell of the coal trains as we stood on ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1956 by Moreen Arundel