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I remember boys from Skellow Hall coming to our school, I remember two brothers there called John and Peter Caveney. I don't know where they were born and the reason they were in the home, we were all friends in ...Read more

A memory of Old Town in 1968 by Shirley Roe

I was a boarder at St Peter's Court from the age of 6 to 10. My father worked on the oil fields in Iraq and because of my age we got special permission for me to board during the civil war there. My two eldest ...Read more

A memory of Bacton in 1957 by Kevin Heath

Another memory I have of Brandon High is being taught Scottish Country Dancing, an ordeal exacerbated by the fact that boys and girls were otherwise segregated and consequently perceived one another as members of an alien ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell in 1957 by John Cunningham

My name is Hazel Lynch (nee Greenslade) I remember Davidson Road school with fond memories I left in 1947 after serving as School Captain. Miss Linington was Head Mistress, and Miss Deane, Miss Davies and Miss Emdin ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1946 by Hazel Lynch

Whilst travelling to Law Junction for the late shift in the winter of 1960/1 I often sat in the waiting room at Motherwell station where it was warm until my train arrived. Several teenage girls, daughters of local businessmen and VIPs ...Read more

A memory of Law in 1961 by John Cunningham

I remember the large Sunday school with George King Main as superintendent. We had great fun, we were all in groups (colour, I think) - I was in the red team. We had great Sunday school picnics. I remember one picnic was at the same ...Read more

A memory of Hopeman by Alison Laurenson(Macpherson

John and Sandra Woolley out of Cartwright Road are relatives to the Hilditches out of the village. Pat Hilditch and Jennifer own Covent Garden Flower Shop on Nantwich Road to this very day. Jennifer is cousin to John Woolley as Jennifer married one of Sid Cummins' boys, young Sid.

A memory of Haslington in 1970 by Peter Fradley

I was a boarder from 1956 to 1960. It was a boys only school at the time , and there were around 28 boarders from first to sixth form. I belief there were around 240 boys total at the school. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch by Paul Roper

Hello everyone, I've read memories about Cliftonville and the Parrakeet and suddenly my heart start jumping, going back of about 50 years, and still remembering - that's not bad! My name is Giovanni but everybody used to call me ...Read more

A memory of Cliftonville in 1965 by Gianni Vivarelli

I thought I would jot a few words down when I hear off a young lady who claims to live in no 8 . I rustled my papers and hit the keys and before you know it I had stopped at 70 pages The Brynna Hemingway, I ...Read more

A memory of Brynna by Gary Edwards