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My name is Andrew Simon, The grandson of Richard Simon. He was the Barber in Headless Cross for some 35 years. Next door at 100a was my aunt, and she ran the wool shop.

A memory of Headless Cross in 1957 by Andrew Simon

I worked at Langley pit and coming home one morning from work on my motor bike, a 350 AJS, I hit the milk cart, Barney was dragging Toby across the road in front of Nuttalls shop having come from hillside, no one hurt, head ight broken, happy days.

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1957 by David Leckenby

Growing up in Godmanchester was a good experience. We lived in St Anne's Lane and I went to school there as well, then went to school in Park Lane. Then in 1956 I went to the Secondary Modern, starting at Brookside ...Read more

A memory of Godmanchester in 1950 by Danny Evans

We lived on Fishers Lane, Pensby then moved to Barleyfield Road where my little sister was born in the front bedroom of no 1. We walked down to Greenbank Junior School every day, three little kids holding hands through fields of barley ...Read more

A memory of Pensby in 1967 by Debbie Ranson

Memories of Hay during the Second World War: Part Two. (Continued from Part One) Thoughts of 'Dad's Army' remind me that the local Home Guard occasionally used Forest Road for some kind of exercise. I've dim ...Read more

A memory of Hay-on-Wye in 1940 by John S. Batts

I have a great-grandfather and several of his brothers who went to this grammar school in the 1830s and 1840s and they all had very nice writing with perfect copperplate. So maybe the severity on the outside was reflected in the ...Read more

A memory of Rye

I remember my first home in Westbury Leigh was with a family called Rowe, they seemed fairly old people to me (then a ten year old boy) but now I am eighty I don't suppose they were. One of the brothers, a Charles Rowe, ...Read more

A memory of Westbury Leigh by Robin Porter

I was born at No. 3 Church Street in 1950. There are so many good times to recall. Where to begin? It is difficult to place them in any sort of logical order. I just guessed the year of ...Read more

A memory of Moulton in 1961

I left the village in 1960. I attended the local junior and infant school. The teachers I recall were Miss Whitehead, Miss Jenkins, Miss James, Granny Chancellor (she was a lovely lady who taught most of our parents also, those that ...Read more

A memory of Waun Lwyd by Ian Calloway

I was born 21st august 1943 at 60 Bellefield Road, a house that is still standing, only a blue brick terraced house with a cold tap and an outside loo. This was quite posh because some people had to share their toilets ...Read more

A memory of Winson Green in 1951 by John Hughes