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I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford.  My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general ...Read more

A memory of Mundford in 1920 by Ralph Woodgate

My friend Valerie and I used to sit around the bowling greens playing Jack Stones with the pebbles in the gullies.

A memory of Porthcawl in 1955 by Jennifer Edwards

The Embassy in Green Street was formerly called the Odeon. Other cinemas in Gillingham at that time were the Plaza in Duncan Road (on the site of what is now Aldi's) and the Grand on the corner of Skinner Street and Jeffery ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1950 by John Addiscott

I attended the Kettering Grammar school until 1961, the main school being in Bowling Green Road. The science block was in Windmill Ave (shown in photo) but most of the buildings seen here were not erected in 1960. The block seen at the ...Read more

A memory of Kettering by raw50

In 2011 Croydon Council stopped maintain the bowling green. Since then volunteer local residents , The Friends of Marlpit Lane Bowling Green (see our website), have restored, maintained and managed ...Read more

A memory of Coulsdon by Peter Morris

as the oldest member of the garvie clan .I thought I would leave my memories of the family on the Internet so that our grandchildren could always look back and see where our past started. the family consisted of Mary ,Theresa,Charles ...Read more

A memory of Caldercruix by Matt Sloan

I left Ireland with my Family in 1953 and left part of my heart there. My Grandparents lived in Portavogie right by the seaside, they had a farm and a General store. Granny always had a pot of soup on her stove in the winter, and many ...Read more

A memory of Portavogie by Rita Gillard

I play bowls at Ulverston Cons the wall and the house behind have never changed think the bowling green was opened in 1911 before that it was a market garden the dividing wall is still there and a house is on the other side of the dividing wall.

A memory of Ulverston

Between 1961 and 1964 I attended the The Matlock Teachers Training College at Rockside and was resident at Rockwood for 3 years. It was a wonderful time for me with my highlight being the co-organising of the double decker bus trip ...Read more

A memory of Matlock by inclusivedriving

We moved to Swindon in 1957 from London (Wimbledon, actually) when my dad, a skilled engineer, got a job at Vickers Armstrongs at South Marston, with a brand new council house thrown in. In those post-war austerity days there was ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by besafisher