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It was 1958 and I had just left school at Walbottle Secondary. Me and my best pal Wes Coulthard (who I'm sad to say has since passed away) went on our first holiday together before starting down the Pit. We went with his parents Jimmy ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1958 by Jimmy Burrows

I started work at this farm in 1946 my first job at 14 yearts old. On the left hand side if the house was a garage the farm was owned by Mr Suthered and his son-in-law Sid Dibbin had the garage. Sid had one other man working ...Read more

A memory of Kingsley Green in 1946 by George Larbey

I lived in Edgware between 1959 and 1969, I was only 6 months old when we moved from Harrow. I can remember my mother going into the haberdashery shop called Stanley J Lees, the original Sainsbury's with wooden floors and ...Read more

A memory of Edgware by Anne Broomhead

We moved to Southgate from Muswell Hill when I was 3.  I remember going into Lees Stores (I think that was the name of the shop) in Chase Side where we needed ration books to buy sweets.  I went to St ...Read more

A memory of Southgate in 1950 by Susan Hayward

The building on the left of the King Street view is the former branch of the Bank of England where I worked between 1966 and 1969. There were vaults beneath and a vehicle entrance to a "bullion yard" at the rear. Although the ...Read more

A memory of Manchester in 1966 by John Howard Norfolk

The Grosvenor was used as a fire (station 8 then became station B10) and ambulance station until the lease ran out in the late 1970s. The ambulance station was the first to move out, followed 12 months later by the fire ...Read more

A memory of Whitland in 1975 by Julian Orchard

Well our address was quite easy , Fairy Cross, Near Bideford, North Devon. Tel. Horns Cross 328   !! Our mail always found us with no problems at all. There were not a lot of us there in those days. We lived in Headons Cottage, it ...Read more

A memory of Fairy Cross in 1962 by Derek England

Many's the time we wandered along the edge of the harbour and up and down the landing stages, studying the leathery faced fishermen's busy hands as they worked on the nets, or repaired lobster pots. We'd peep around, what seemed ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1964 by Kathy Farmer C/O Terry Roberts Roberts Flooring Contractors Ltd

Peel Brow was laid out in 1789. It links Ramsbottom on the west bank of the River Irwell with the districts of Shuttleworth on the east bank. It joined the Bury-Haslingden turnpike, now the A56. It was built in phases. The OS map for ...Read more

A memory of Ramsbottom in 1955 by John Tomlinson

We used to always walk to school Fawbert and Barnard a few yards up next to police station  in the summer and walk home.Behind the bus stop was the post office.I was 8 when this picture was taken.

A memory of Harlow in 1953 by Eddie Tait