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When I was a young lad I spent most of my school holidays at roughwood park With my grandad who was the grounds man for many years not sure for how many This was in the mid sixties His name was Cecil melonie. I drove past a ...Read more

A memory of Roughwood Park by mjdrew89

we lived at 15 relief st dysart in the early 50s moved there from kirkcaldy we had to move out when they started to demolish the place so sad it was great place to grow up in I was about six or seven yrs old when we moved there, ...Read more

A memory of Dysart

I attended Kingsgate Primary School in the 1960's and left in the summer of 1970. I have only the fondest memories of my time there. I have often wondered what happened to my classmates and to our two fantastic teachers Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by tonybwgc

I think it must have been 1952 or 3 when I went to live on Kingwood Common with my parents in the old nissen huts left by the German POWs, and afterwards by Polish refugees. We knew the place as Kingdom Camp, or just ...Read more

A memory of Kingwood Common by richardhayes516

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

I moved to trowbridge when i was 5 and now am 55 and living in rumney. My childhood memories are of fields and lanes now gone forever. I remember standing outside the dairy that was on greenway road just past hendre ...Read more

A memory of St Mellons by wesgate

I was a pupil at Fairdene School from 1960-1965. I had lived in New York until I was 6, so being a girl with a Yankee accent in a school for young ladies was quite a challenge! The two female headmistresses, Miss Turner and Miss ...Read more

A memory of Chipstead by familylock

i hated morden when i was a child, sunday was a dead day, no shops open, i couldn't wait to get away, now 72 years later & living in the north east of england, happily married for 51 years i still have feelings for the the place, my ...Read more

A memory of Morden

My name is Andrew Jones was at Bassaleg from 1961-1967. A vivid memory was running the forge lane dash which was supposed to be exactly 1 mile. Some of the slower guys used to hitch a ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg by hajtool58

The previous writer mentionedTilly Biggins who was my uncles stepmother. I stayed with her many times when I was very young. She was born in Victorian times and still dressed in lace up boots, long skirts and big hats. No running water ...Read more

A memory of Gristhorpe by terrybroadhead003