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Hello, my name is Jeane Moorhouse, nee Huxley, I started life on Band St, Hollywood area, in 1952, then moved to Hilton St. My only memories from here are the wash house and Hollywood Park where the fair would arrive and the ...Read more

A memory of Stockport in 1956 by Jeane Moorhouse

My Mother, Annette Mercer, lived here with her parents Margaret and Harold Mercer and siblings Roger, Lynda, Bruce and Carolyn in 1953. From here they went to Denton, Lancashire. Annette worked in the office of Wood Treatment in Biddulph. She was age 16 at the time.

A memory of Rushton Spencer in 1953 by Peter Almond

My first introduction to Slaidburn was in the middle of the very cold and snowy winter of 1949-50. I had just driven down from Inverness to this charming Lancashire village with my Dad. It had been a long, cold drive ...Read more

A memory of Slaidburn in 1950 by Denman Lalonde

I lived in Alderley Edge from 1950 to 1964, with my sister Ann, parents, and grandparents, after spending my very early years at Clockhouse Farm in Mottram St Andrew. We came to live in a house called Croston, previously the ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1955 by Graham Dilliway

I was stationed at the Royal Signals camp at Denbury in 1952 and whilst there I met a wonderful young lady whose name was Frances Best. She lived in Kingskerswell and I fell in love with ...Read more

A memory of Kingskerswell in 1952 by opheliachapman2003

I have many happy, if rather boozy, memories of Downderry! I first went there in 1983 until my final visit in 1996, where I had 12 fantastic holidays there, most of the time in glorious sunshine. I went with my parents each year ...Read more

A memory of Downderry by Christopher Whittle

Hi Anne who went to Mulberry Street School. I was born in 1952 and went to Gaythorn Primary School. We must have played your school at Rounders. We were Lancashire champions of 1963 and I was ...Read more

A memory of Hulme by Janice Nelson

,I must have been about six years old when we moved from Gypsey Road in Welling, to a new house in Hurlingham Road, Number 40, by the Pantiles. A year later WW11 started, and we spent our nights in the damp Anderson shelter ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by patricia.norton

100 years to the date 11.10.1915-11.10.2015 William Clarke (DOB about 1874) Eliza Ann Street,Patricroft Wife, Mary Hanna (nee Edwards DOB about 1871) six children. Employed, Naysmyth and Wilson, Bridgewater Foundry, Patricoft as ...Read more

A memory of Eccles by albert.clarke2

my name is gordon hay I was born in 1940 at 98 Dundas Street, I attended newtown primary school and then newham grange until 1955. I remember working at number of firms before going to sea in the merchant navy I ...Read more

A memory of Stockton-on-Tees in 1940 by Gordon Hay