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On 3rd of June 1953 I arrived at West Kirby by steam train with a good many other RAF recruits who had been brought to the town to do their recruit training at Royal Air Force Recruit Training School West ...Read more

A memory of West Kirby by Albert Wm Gosnall

I was evacuated to Bedford in 1939 aged 7 and stayed first of all with a Mrs Drake ,the wife of a captain Drake who was in command of a ship called the Warspite. I remember it was off Goldington rd. by the school where all the ...Read more

A memory of Bedford by donlacey2000

Dear Joan, Thank you for your contact. It was a wonderful surprise. I am sure a shared memory amplifies the nostalgia. I logged in to FF and got very teary (I am a big strong boy 73) and memories flooded back. I too ...Read more

A memory of Upton in 1946 by Alan Jones

I have very fond memories of Huyton - especially Huyton village, in the 1970's. We used to live in Ardennes Road and my beloved nana, Sally (Sarah) Ryan, lived just around the corner in Salerno Drive. Even though we never ...Read more

A memory of Knotty Ash by Lynne Mansoor

My name is Edward Hughes and at the tender age of 3/4 I was evacuated from my home town of Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire to Talsarnau during the second world war; staying around 2 years or so in an allocated home ...Read more

A memory of Talsarnau in 1940 by Edward Hughes

My father used to work at this factory in Penge as a Chemist. We moved down to Selsdon when I was five (1950) and then we moved back up to the Wirral when I was 11. Does anyone remember exactly where the factory was and does anyone remember Selsdon in those days?

A memory of Penge in 1950 by Susan Reid Povall

I was brought up in Claughton Village (Wirral) and in the holidays as children we regularly walked through Bidston Hill to Thermopylae Pass.  We would spend all day on the Hill and at Thermopylae and walk home at the end of the day ...Read more

A memory of Upton in 1959 by Joan Grey

This is a long shot. I am tracing my family tree, I live in the Wirral. My great grandparents were Walter Waring and Alice Waring (nee Reed). Alice Waring was living on a farm in Childerthornton, Wirral, when ...Read more

A memory of Litchfield in 1890 by Valerie Waring

Imagine my surprise, when I Googled Bebington from my apartment in New York City and up came a photograph of a row of houses opposite The Wirral Grammar School on Heath Road in Bebington, and one of them was ...Read more

A memory of Bebington in 1965 by First Name Last Name

My Uncle Brian and my Auntie Doreen used to live here along with their 4 girls - Lynda, Pam, Debby, and Trisha I will never forget the first time we visited - coming from then the built-up area of the Wirral, we lived near ...Read more

A memory of Melin-y-Wig in 1971 by Dean Pritchard