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The personal views of Resolven expressed in these pages reflect my own fond memories of Resolven, the Vale of Neath and its people. In 1953 I returned to the valley as a teenager, little did I know it was to become my home. I ...Read more

A memory of Resolven by Barry S Britzman

I was born in 15 Seaford rd. in 1954. Tottenham then was like a village where everyone knew everyone else. I can clearly remember rag and bone men with their horse and carts, ringing their bells yelling "old rags and ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham by John Martin

Our family moved to Friars Road in the summer of 66, from a damp house in Boothen Green, which looked over toward the Michelin Factory. I was 5 years old. My father Graham was a former art student at Burslem College of Art under the ...Read more

A memory of Abbey Hulton by Marc Thorley

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

I went to Welbeck Secondry Modern school for the last 2 years of my school life. At 13 I passed a 13+ exam and at Welbeck we underwent a 2 year basic building course. We did all the ...Read more

A memory of Calmore

I started off in Roe Green Village, all through the War years, I did National Service in Singapore from 1952 to 1954, married my childhood sweetheart Jean Wilson in 1955 she was head girl at Claremont ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by anthony.smith694

I too was a pupil at St. George's, probably from 1944 to certainly no later than 1950 when I was shipped off to a boarding school in Sussex where I remained until leaving at age 17 in 1956. I was ...Read more

A memory of Mill Hill by Richard Gray

My family arrived in Seaforth late in 1939 after we were shipped back from Gibraltar where my father was stationed with the Kings Regiment. Early memories of our house in Holly Grove are vague. My sister Maureen and I, along with ...Read more

A memory of Seaforth in 1940 by Charles Hegarty

It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by Dave Southern

Like Gloria Friend, I spent a happy childhood in Hornchurch, attending Suttons Primary School where my mother (Mrs Wilton) was deputy head and Mr Occomore our headmaster. We were carefully drilled in our tables, phonics and ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1948 by Elizabeth Housego