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Welling was my home town; I was born in Westwood Lane in 1944 and went to Hook Lane and Westwood Schools. I can remember walking to Hook Lane school passing Leons, it was a clothes shop in Bellegrove Rd. Also a little ...Read more

A memory of Welling by Barbara Brennan

I was a bus conductor and then a driver on the United Counties out of Derngate in the 1960s. It was a great job and the Northampton people were a happy bunch. Does any one remember the Swan pub where we would drink or the ...Read more

A memory of Northampton in 1963 by James Stapleton

Does anyone remember George and Ada Price. They lived in Prescot in the fifties and moved to the new masonettes in Beaconsfield in the 1960's. They had a son Gerogie and a daughter Phoebe. I have many fond memories of ...Read more

A memory of Prescot in 1964

Mid Sussex Older People's Council, a local charity set up run and managed by older people for older people, is putting together a heritage project to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday. It ...Read more

A memory of Salford by anita

Many of the paternal side of my family lived in Cornsay Colliery - in fact my father was born there in 1913. My great grandfather, Robert Norwood, worked at the Ferens and Love colliery there where he was ...Read more

A memory of Cornsay Colliery by ranorwood

I was at school there from 1956 to 1963, first at the Old Primary School then the new one with Head Mistress Miss E Watson and her elder sister, 'tremendous old school' method teachers. I lived at ...Read more

A memory of Skelton by globnet_2010

I lived on Longmoor Lane, 101, and have fond but distant memories of the 50's and 60's. There were still stables for the canal tow horses at the foot of the bridge crossing the canal in Sandiacre town centre. I played with ...Read more

A memory of Sandiacre by Alan Hickman

Hi my name is Geradine I have vivid memories of Drayton Junior School Ealing in the early seventies I was approx 8/9years old and lived at St Leonards rd Ealing.Drayton Junior held fond memories. For me.I ...Read more

A memory of South Beddington by geraldineayul

i was born in 1932 in malmesbury rd Canning Town in a house backing on to the railway goods and shunting yards. This provoked battle between the shunting locomotive firemen and my mother drying nappies on a clothes line on the ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by g.olmit

I was born in Hayfield Rd during the terrible winter of 1947 (Feb), doctor Leslie Millward walked through the snow and along a huge drift to climb into our front bedroom window to attend to my birth! I was ...Read more

A memory of New Mills by fmorris121