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I can remember when the snow on the roofs of the houses in Boosbeck, when it started to melt it would fall with a load thud lol. I used to love playing up Boosbeck Woods with my mates, Paul Bullock, Cliff Wood and Desmond Wood. ...Read more

A memory of Boosbeck in 1971 by Roy Hood

I was a school boy in Cashel school between 1958 and 1964. I passed the 11 plus and that took me to St Michael's in Enniskillen. School was tough enough in Cashel. Mrs Brady was inclined to slap for bad spelling or getting ...Read more

A memory of Cashel by Joe Gallagher

I lived at 2 Fullerton Road from 1956-1965, it was a cul-de-sac in those days. It was lined with Plain Trees with sticky leaves. There were a couple of factories at the end on the left hand side, the names fail me ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe in 1956 by Barbara Saunders

In 1944, I was evacuated to Badshot Lea, with my mum. My dad, as a plumber & vital to the war effort, was in Liverpool & not in Europe or elsewhere in the Theatre of war. I can remember as a 4 year old, standing, I ...Read more

A memory of Badshot Lea in 1944 by Ron Bowdery

I lived in Minster Way from 1947-58 in one of the bungalows in this photo - but there were trees along the front of the house by this time. I remember milk being delivered by horse and cart - the milkman would go quickly up and ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1952 by Marion Sallis

Photo of Poulton Square in 1895, 110 years ago.

A memory of Poulton-Le-Fylde by Michael Butcher

I attended Hatherleigh Secondary Modern School from 1955 to 1959. I have attempted to locate photographs of the school at that period but have failed. It was a beautiful old Manor house with with all ...Read more

A memory of Malpas by Roger Wood

This is just as I remember it when I used to go to Hough Green station (the entrance is on the extreme left of the photo) train-spotting. All steam in those days of course. The scene is very little changed today except for the cars and ...Read more

A memory of Widnes by Eric Jones

My dad used to take my sister, my brother and me here. He would buy us each a packet of crisps (the kind with the salt in the twist of blue wax paper). A beautiful Alsatian dog called Major lived here and we would all stop to ...Read more

A memory of Timbersbrook in 1960

I remember travelling from Luton in Bedfordshire during the late 1950s and early 1960s to spend a week at Mrs Sampson's Harbour House boarding facilities. My father used to drive the coach overnight from Luton and we ...Read more

A memory of Porthleven by Michael Bream