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Grew up at no15 Park Close Park bottom, from the age of 4, until 18 years,, can remember Nesbitts shop, the petrol station, and the chip shop. Also the Blackpool trips that my mum & dad organised every year for the Illuminations. The ...Read more

A memory of Park Bottom by grahamjenkin26

Our family holidays where in Talacre. We stayed in Lovely Cottage. On the road by the Point of Ayr. The toilet was at the end of the garden and we had gas lighting and gas iron. These were the most wonderful days of our ...Read more

A memory of Talacre by marialee62

My name is Jim O'Hanlon. I am 66 years old. I have just discovered this site and have seen a couple of places written about which provoke many nice memories from my childhood and early teens. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by johanlon2002

I am told that in the 1950's a number of families from Penrhiwceiber would come to Tarrington in Herefordshire to help with the hop picking. They would arrive at Stoke Edith Station (which was actually in Tarrington) ...Read more

A memory of Penrhiwceiber by John Watkins

The park cannot have been built long in this photo - our house at the north eastern end of the park was built in 1904 and was bought by the station master of Ulverston at the time. we moved there in 1968 and as we had no garden to ...Read more

A memory of Ulverston by Pete High

I lived in Wood End Lane (no. 9), from 1941 from the age of six months, until 1948 when I moved to the new council houses at Newnham Close, locally known as Tintown, because it had steel framed walls on the upper storey. No. 9 was a ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by williamfairney

I attended St theresa’s Convent from when I was 9 in 1954 until I left the summer I was 16 in 1961. I knew many girls who’s names are now long forgotten but those I do remember like Allanah Bagnall PhillipaWooldridge Philippa Bouwens I did ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury by Jeannine Helene Nye

I was born at the Grange Nursing Home in Berkhamstead on May 16, 1950. Dr Waterman delivered me. Do you know where it was located ? Any pictures or insights to the Grange Nursing Home ? I live in ...Read more

A memory of Berkhamsted by Mick Flynn

I spent my childhood in Ashtead in the 1950s and 60s and I went to Ashtead Primary School in Barnett Wood Lane. One of the teachers was a lovely lady called Miss Portlock and she used to bring her dog to school with her. ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead by Carole Barwood

My parents and I moved to Swindon in 1961 from Edmonton, London to a brand new three bedroom house ( think). My father worked at Pressed Steel were they made car body panels for Austin, and Morris, and I used to cycle halfway to the ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by Graham Morland