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I joined a "side" of clog morris dancers known as The Old Bull" in 1980. We all attended weekly practices and danced out at various local pubs in the area. Our practice venue was a former pub ...Read more

A memory of Barnet in 1980 by John Howard Norfolk

London Road was a very different place 50 years ago to the collection of twee wine bars and restaurants that it is now. It was a real 'working' village providing all the goods and services that were needed by the ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1960 by Graham Dilliway

My late father, Don Lawes, grew up at no. 121 Byron Avenue on the Poets Estate in East Ham (off High Street North) during the '40s and '50s and attended East Ham Grammar School from 1938 to 1944. My late ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by David Lawes

I was posted to the RAF radar unit in Hawthorne from 1954-1955 and had some of the happiest memories of my service in Easington Colliery. We attended most of the dances in the Welfare Hall after having coffee in ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1955 by Bill Heslington

I am seeking information. William Oswald Jones was my wife's father. He was born in 1916 at 24 Victoria Street. His parents were Humphrey and Mary Jones. William was killed in Italy in 1944 at the battle for "Monti ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1920 by Leon Wiltshire

My great-grandparents named their house in Hounslow-Ombersley. They moved there before 1924 as I have pics of my mother at the front gate. I wonder if either of them came from Ombersley and what is the connection. My ...Read more

A memory of Ombersley by Elizabeth Jennings

My name is Rosie Pearce and I live in Tintagel, North Cornwall. These are just a few of my many childhood memories of Milverton. I lived in Reading with my father and grandmother after my mum died in ...Read more

A memory of Milverton in 1954 by Rosie Pearce

I came to North Seaton Colliery in 1944 when my father K.C.Macfarlane got the Unit Engineer's position. (he was a qualified marine engineer and left the sea around 1928 some time after he got married to my mother Cissie) The ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton by Derek Macfarlane

I fondly remember being taken to the market by a lovely girl from Tingley, a Miss Maureen Peatfield. Being a lad from the very north of England I had never seen as much activity. The thing that surprised me the most was the girls all ...Read more

A memory of Morley in 1959 by David Simpson

I too lived in Ramillies Park between 1969 and 1971 (185 Ramillies Park,) and went to Talavera. I remember getting the bus from North Camp with a pink bus pass up to the top of hospital hill, walking up past the old ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by Steve Mc Connell