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MEMORIES OF A LOST VILLAGE Middle Rainton Introduction My name is John Harvey and this is an account of my memories of being brought up in Middle Rainton between the years 1940 to 1958. As this ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1940 by John Harvey

Does anyone else remember the A5 Rangers? I was one of the early members of this cycling club - at weekends groups of us, boys and girls, would cycle all over the county, singing as we went. We usually stopped for tea ...Read more

A memory of Towcester in 1949 by Doug Mc Keown

On My Finedon website I received this e mail. As an expatriot I thought you would like a message. I was born in Finedon in 1912, and left for Canada in 1928. I lived in Placketts Yard and Ivy Lane. Attended the infants ...Read more

A memory of Finedon by Peter Munton

Do you remember seeing a field of giant mangel wurzels in Finedon? When I was still a lad, Finedon farmers were still following a fifteenth century practice of growing the huge white and yellow beetroots for cattle food. I ...Read more

A memory of Finedon by Peter Munton

I was happily transported back to my childhood reading some of the memories on this page and thought I would share some of my own. I was born in 1951 in a tiny one up, one down house in Laneside, Yews Green. ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury in 1951 by Anne Clarke

Planning a bit of a reunion (to meet up) for ex 'castle boys' on Sunday 12th August, 11am in the Market Square car park. Anyone welcome, hope to see plenty of lads there.

A memory of Stanhope by Ian Lambert

I see on the headline you say that Bocckleton School closed in 1958 - I lived in Middle Common, in the cottage opposite the post box, and went to school there until it closed in 1962! I then went to Tenbury Junior School (1st ...Read more

A memory of Bockleton in 1962 by Richard Smith

I came to Corby in 1966, we lived in 100a Rockingham Road, the flat above the old fire station which then became Kettering Tyres - my brother Eugene started working there at a very young age, being the tea boy. We where then moved to ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1969 by Jackie Finan

When I arrived in1946 as a13 year old boy, my first impression of Brown Rigg was how are we all going to stay here. I can remember digging out the swimming pool - we never got swim in it because we all left before it was complete.

A memory of Bellingham in 1946 by John Cairns

I was at Collingwood Preparatory from 1963-66. To say it was strict would be an immense understatement. It was brutal. John Richardson beat me on the hand with a ruler for getting poor marks in a maths test. As we ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1966 by Guy Nicholls