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A miner's family from Blaenrhondda - Watkins - were lodgers in the late 1930's with my parents living in Colindale, Hendon, NW London. I was born in 1926 and when I was ten the idea came for me to stay for a holiday in ...Read more

A memory of Blaenrhondda in 1930 by Sidney Holt

i was evacuated with my mother and brother around 1940 the first time and twice again later during the war. The first time i was about 2 years old and stayed with a couple who ran a public house in cherry hinton so i was ...Read more

A memory of Teversham in 1940 by Maurene Kauter

Born in 1947 my family lived in Gin Pit at No 2 Lord Street. In those days there were huge slag heaps just over a stream at the bottom of the village and a pond at the bottom of Lord Street. We used to skate on it in the ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley by Richard Carter

Having just re-read Professor A.H Dodd's "A history of Wrexham" He was amazed at how much history, buildings etc had been swept away in the name of progress from 1850 to 1950. He published his book and died in 1975, ...Read more

A memory of Wrexham

My great-grandfather William Chard Howe was the last Howe to run the family painting and decorating business in Crewkerne, following in the footsteps of his father Thomas and his grandfather George, who seems to have ...Read more

A memory of Crewkerne by Caroline Howe

I did leave an earlier paragraph on this site years ago, but I can't see it now. Indeed, growing up in Welling in the late forties to early sixties was a privilege accorded so very few. I subsequently spent forty-two years in ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Noel Bailey

I first arrived at Abertysswg in 1955 leaving Cwmsyfiog where we lived across the road from my grandparents. My mother, Gwynneth Bradd, was a nurse in Abertysswg and travelled there from the Cwm (Cwmsyfiog) for her eleven hour ...Read more

A memory of Abertysswg by David Bradd

I was in the Army in 1966 when I was fortunate to be posted to Morfa Camp. It was the Army Outward Bound School then and catered mainly for Junior Leaders. They did a 3 week course there during which they engaged in rock climbing, ...Read more

A memory of Towyn in 1966 by William Head

I too new Mr Wernink from the bridge mission, after a dip with my friend Evelin in the Hollow Ponds, I was attending a scout meeting at Snakes Lane when I experienced the most horrendous back pain which was diagnosed as ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1940 by Alan Friston

I was sent to stay at Ormorod House in 1953 or 1954 for 4weeks recuperation following a tonsillectomy because we lived in condemned property at the time. The journey from Walsall took forever, I was 7 years old and ...Read more

A memory of Lytham in 1953 by Marilyn Degville