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I was born at my parent's house at 33 Lemsford Court in 1956. I've heard that the house was demolished quite some time ago because of a structural problem and rebuilt. Maybe the problem was caused by the roots from the ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1956 by Garry Smith

Oh, what memories came back when reading other people's; I was one of five children that went to Emmanual School. I have 3 brothers and one sister, we attended there between 1953 - 1964; there was Megan, Dennis, Noma, Trevor, ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by Norma Mc Gill

I joined the Queen Alexandra Nursing Corps in 1958 and came down from Scotland to QA depot at Hindhead. After training at the Dental College, Aldershot was posted to the Dental Centre, Connaught Hospital. My name was then Smith. ...Read more

A memory of Hindhead in 1959 by Jean Barnard

This shows Swanwick Shore Road about 1 mile away from Sarisbury Green at the bottom of the hill. The road came off the A27 roughly opposite the Red Lion Inn at Lower Swanwick and followed the shore of the River Hamble through ...Read more

A memory of Lower Swanwick by Roger Pols

I was working at Bangor Docks as a painter of a Trawler called the Brizley; it was a wooden boat of about forty feet long. I had to sleep on the boat within the crews cabin of which was below deck. Now the thing about Bangor ...Read more

A memory of Maesgeirchen in 1983 by Roland Mitchell

I remember Burtons, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, and other great groups. Always seemed to be on a Friday. At the interval we came out, and in Windsor Street there was a Fish and Chip shop where we had chips. We took them into a ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1963 by Nick Beard

I came on tonight to see the house I was living in when I left to come to America. I was amazed to see the Memories of St. Helens pictures etc. What a pleasure to see the pictures, and read some of the memories. I remember ...Read more

A memory of St Helens in 1946 by Joan Jory

I have connections in the Wallops as I was born at Craydown, Over Wallop in Aug 1945. My parents were married in nearby Broughton Baptist Chapel with my father an R.A.F. Corporal and my mother a LACW in the ...Read more

A memory of Nether Wallop by Bob Hewitt

My maternal family, Smiths and Meredith's, hail from the Pontypool area. My great grandmother , Matilda Smith (nee Meredith) lived in Waunfelin and ran a children's clothes/knitwear business from her house at the beginning ...Read more

A memory of Pontypool in 1900 by Alan Sage

I was born and brought up in Bryncoch, a little village on the way to Pontardawe, it was the most lovely childhood. Bryncoch was in the middle of fields and a river and plenty of space to run ...Read more

A memory of Neath by Ione Holbourne