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Born 1950, moved to Barker Road, Bredbury, 1954. Apparently we were one of the first families to inhabit the estate. Attended Barrack Hill. Remember Browns, the two old ladies in the sweet shop ...Read more

A memory of Woodley in 1961 by Peter Francis

Hi, My name is Robyn Arkinstall and I live in Australia. I am very interested and doing research into the Arkinstall surname, worldwide. On Friday December 11, 1868 a James/John? Arkinstall was employed at ...Read more

A memory of Kirkby Lonsdale by Robyn Arkinstall

I moved to Holme on Spalding Moor, just after Easter 1953. My gran had a pub in Hull called The Black Boy, and she retired to Holme to run the Railway Inn in Holme and as I then lived with her I moved too. I was very ...Read more

A memory of Holme by Beryl Frances

I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned ...Read more

A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by Donald Rumbold

Hi, my father went to work on the farm at Binbrook for Mr Holmes in 1957, and my brother John, sister Anne all played on the farm and went to school in a taxi with Mr Holmes' daughter Janice. I remember the pony, ...Read more

A memory of Binbrook in 1957 by Derick Smith

My name in the sixties was Marilyn Pooley, I lived at St Blazey and went to Fowey School. I have been raising my family for the last 40 years and now fancy looking back at my younger days. One of the ...Read more

A memory of Tywardreath in 1966 by Marilyn Brown

I have had a long association with Jaywick - I am the organist at St Christopher`s church in Meadow Way. I was approached by Mrs Elsie Coleman (who was steward 'in charge' then) over thirty years ago to do a `temporary stint`. I loved the ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick in 1978 by Allen Warrender

Known as Stocks Hill, on the left of the photo is the Coop Drapery Shop. At the side of the shop was an alley and the Coop Bakery was there. The house facing in the picture was Ted Witneys car repair yard, along High Street was ...Read more

A memory of Moulton in 1950 by Jackie Tyrrell

My very first memory is in 1934 when my parents, sister and I came to live in rooms over a private school in The Mount (from memory) near to a new Fire Station that had just been built. I was four years old and my mother was ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1930 by Alan Holden

My brother and I spent very important years in Theydon Bois. We were only there for 5 years but they were probably the most formative. It was a very simple village. There was the school, far too small for the many children ...Read more

A memory of Theydon Bois in 1953 by Lesley Parry