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My great-grandmother, Mary Jackson, was born in Meanwood in 1850 and married just over three miles away at St Peter’s, the Leeds Parish Church, in 1873. Her husband was my great-grandad, William Arthur ...Read more

A memory of Meanwood by John Howard Norfolk

During the last year of the war I was evacuted to Allerton Bywater. When I arrived we were stood on the stage of the village hall and I was the last one left when a Mr and Mrs Parkinson, who already had 4 children, took ...Read more

A memory of Allerton Bywater in 1944 by John Smith

I was born in Preston Hospital, North Shields.in 1943. My first recollections as a child were of living on Rosehill Road known as Parker Terrace at No7. An old lady called Mrs Roper lived next door. Another family called Spencer ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1947 by Maggie Ridley

Wonderful Experience spent my sixteenth birthday at the school, Memories fade, I believe my house master was a Mr Morrell? My badge was all blue, I had to go to his room for my assessment sat in front of a blazing log fire. We had a ...Read more

A memory of Whitby in 1956 by Philip Wells

I was born in Jacksdale in 1962, my dad was a bus driver with the Midland General Bus Company based in Underwood. I now live in Ollerton near Newark, but have fond memories of the village as I grew up. I often think back about ...Read more

A memory of Jacksdale in 1962 by Emma Lowe

My first memories were living at 56, 4th Avenue aged approx six years. We were very poor and my mother had many days when she fed us but didn't eat herself, even though my father worked seven days a week at Thoresby Pit. I ...Read more

A memory of Edwinstowe in 1950 by Clive Bingham

play field at the top of Westway. The fun and games we had as kids up to 1946, helping those friendly German prisoners build fairfield housing estate. We moved to 43 Westway in about 1948, My farther Horace, Waterhouse. Mother ...Read more

A memory of Farsley in 1958 by Ronald Waterhouse

Grew up in Land Street, slept with my first girlfriend Wendy Gill until the pram got too small, that would be 1940, where are you now Wendy?. I still remember the Messershmitt and pilot who landed in the play field at the top ...Read more

A memory of Farsley in 1958 by Ronald Waterhouse