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Hi, I lived in the village when I was a boy. I went to the junior school. My dad worked on a farm, we lived next door to the farm. My friends were Pat Jennings and Gordon Petch, we did everything together, lots ...Read more

A memory of Worlaby in 1958 by Derick Smith

I was a choir boy here from circa 1948/49 with my brother Ken and later on my sister Pam, until my voice broke. Miss Reeves was the organist and she had a little Morris Minor with an unforgettable number plate FCG 115 ( She told us ...Read more

A memory of Cowplain by Allan R Yalden

As children, my two brothers and I would go to visit Nannan (my paternal grandmother) at Wells Bottom Farm, near Sowerby Bridge, Ripponden. We would stop at the Blue Bell Inn for a drink of pop, the highlight of the long car ...Read more

A memory of Ripponden in 1960 by Angela Garcia

How exciting it was to find the Reference to Elm Farm. As a boy I grew up on Elm Farm and remember very fondly collecting eggs up in the hay barn & milking the cows. Mrs Tompkins was my mum, selling eggs & produce. I can still ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley in 1953 by Bruce Tompkins

I was born at Low Westwood, a small mining village in the North East of England in 1955 – well, when I say I was born there, that’s not entirely true. Unlike today, children were born at ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1960 by Kathy Aveyard

This was a Boys Grammar School. Their uniform was a cap and blazer with broad black and dark red stripes. During the war a number of the large houses in Frognal were evacuated by their wealthy owners, ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage in 1950 by Dennis Paul

I grew up here from 1953 to 1970 when I left the village and went to sea in the Merchant Navy.Born in the only cottage next to the hospital at end of Pant street, but at age of 5 moved to Highfield Crescent where my parents lived all ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed by Stephen Hodges

I spent the first 19 years of my life living in Hill Rise by Greenford station. As others have said it was a much freer time for kids, from an early age we were let out to roam far and wide fishing and swimming. Yes, ...Read more

A memory of Greenford

My husband and I moved to Easthampstead in 1959 and were allocated an "end terrace house" in Black Meadows. We went to the local Baptist Church where services were then held in an old house near where Pointe Royale was ...Read more

A memory of Easthampstead in 1959 by Pamela Chaldecott

Court Lees - Does that name ring any bells? All the boys, every Sunday, came down a long lane on 'Shanks Ponies' and went to church in the village. Mr Fish was the headmaster around late forties early fifties; a very nice man but it deteriorated when he left around 1953.

A memory of South Godstone by Brian Gray