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Where the houses come out, by the bus was a shoe shop owned by two sisters, a really old fashioned one that looked like time stood still when you went in, coming back the other way, if you walked along, was the ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham in 1955 by Joyce Lawrence

THE SATURDAY MORNING MATINEE Of course you remember it ... well most of us do!!! It all seems so long ago now! but it's beginning to drift up from the fog of 'times gone by'. Hot and damp and steaming gently in the ...Read more

A memory of Felling in 1955 by David Hinge

We were only here briefly. Just a few early spring and summer months. My parents were managing this hotel for the season. One fine day, when there was a pause in the arrivals & departures of coach buses filled with ...Read more

A memory of Windermere in 1956 by Charlotte Gatling

I can remember taking the Lemonade bottles back to the little off licence part and getting the money back. I was probably about 9.

A memory of Tilbury in 1970 by Josephine Kalisz Vel Kalisiak

I was still a teenager, 17 years old and my baby brother at school at Bede Campus. I escaped the campus by virtue of it not having been completed when I passed the 11+. The town centre in Billingham was still being built, ...Read more

A memory of Billingham in 1965 by Paula Hollingworth

I was born Cramlington 1942, my sister 1940. l have some happy memories of Blyth, lived with mam and dad and sister Betty in Cowpen Row. Dad was in the army so did not see much of him then, when he came ...Read more

A memory of Blyth in 1964 by Anne Hayes

I used to stay with my Nain and Taid during the school holidays during the 60's and early 70's. Taid was Owen Hugh Evans who was the Game Keeper during that period. The Game Keeper's house was in a wonderful location, with ...Read more

A memory of Cefn Meiriadog in 1962 by Anthony Harris

Hardham was a place to bicycle to from Pulborough, and visit St. Botolph's Church. One of the many very very old churches in West Sussex. The drawings on the walls go back hundreds of years depicting the tortures of the early Christians, ...Read more

A memory of Hardham in 1964 by Sheelagh Mac Donald

In 1960 my home was just out of shot: next door to the house that is partly visible on the far right of the picture. I lived at number 18 Church Street, Church Street being the road that is accessed by turning right in the middle ...Read more

A memory of Minehead in 1960 by Pam Gotham

As a child I lived in North Street, Bradford Abbas. The name of the house then was Hilou. We were led to believe it was because our only toilet then was at the top of the very long garden. It later ...Read more

A memory of Bradford Abbas in 1965