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My family lived at Grove Cottage, Drakelow for 56 years. I was a few weeks old when we moved fromm Orgreave. At that time there was our parents, me, and four older sisters, the eldest being 15. My dad Arthur Taylor went to ...Read more

A memory of Drakelow by Gwendolyn Cooper

I would come with my father and brothers and sisters to see my grandfather who lived in a small house. There was a railway very near and the trains would run outside his house. His road was called Elm Grove Road, ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough in 1965

I was born in the village in 1934, my grandfather Edgar Edwin Budge had Bremhill Grove Farm, we lived in the cottage attached to the farmhouse. I and my sister Janet went to the local school, where Miss Tavener was my teacher, ...Read more

A memory of East Tytherton in 1930 by Gilbert Budge

I was born during the Second World War in 1942, the 8th child to my parents at Goose Bridge, Matching Green. My parents were Scottish and people thought they were foreign. My dad worked for Mr Gemmill's farm ...Read more

A memory of Matching Green by Mary Burton

I lived in Simon Crescent from 1967-1985. I had great times growing up in the crescent. All the people I remember are: Tam Taylor, the Dunnigans, Sandy and Jackie Crookston, the Smiths, the Mcmahons, Tam Page, the ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1968 by Colin Rollo

Mam was born in Victoria Garesfield, the houses I can remember have now been demolished. In later years they lived in School Houses where there were about four converted bungalows. My grandad worked in nearly all ...Read more

A memory of Victoria Garesfield in 1965 by David Errington

As a footnote to my previous memory of Elm Grove, could I have your wife's maiden name as I know many of the girls that would have gone to Sutton West Girls' School including my own sister Linda, do you think you might know her? I might even know your wife.

A memory of Sutton in 1950 by John Rowland

Being born in a house opposite the Angel pub in 1952, and having a family history going back over 300 hundred years in the village, I think we were a local family. Those memories of the school holiday times will last a ...Read more

A memory of Stanton by Colin Fordham

I started my first job at UDT in George Street, Croydon in 1957 (age 15). I met my husband at the Orchid Ballroom, Purley on 21 May 1960 and left my job in London to work at Milne & Russell, South Croydon prior to getting married in ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1957 by S D Hunt

I think it was 1976 when our dad took us to Holmfirth. He loved watching 'Last of the Summer Wine' which was filmed there. As we were children we sat in the back and watched the hills coming closer and closer. Dad drove careful up the ...Read more

A memory of Holmfirth in 1976 by Jean Smith