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I was in St Claire's Orphanage with my two sisters after my father died in 1945. The Rev Mother Sister Phillomina had been a childhood friend of my mother's. This fact did not give us any added privileges. I ...Read more

A memory of Pantasaph in 1948 by Dora Murphy

I grew up in Berwick Street, Liverpool. The best night of the year was Bonfire Night. My mates and I would collect bonny wood for ages before the big night and store it in a bombed out ...Read more

A memory of Fairfield in 1955 by David Clarke

I remember visiting the mill many years ago as my mother had an uncle who worked there, and often went into the house on the right which then was the mill´s offices. Everyone used to buy Viv Wood's fish and ...Read more

A memory of Paddock Wood in 1960 by Jean Hardcastle

I am asking for some help of Swanley. There was a foot bridge built - I'm not sure what year. It was London bound end, just at now the Rainbow Inn chinese. I, as a child, loved that bridge, I think it was built for school children ...Read more

A memory of Swanley in 1976 by Amanda Rawlings

My brother Christopher and I first went down to school at Visitation Convent, Bridport in September 1957. We lived in Ascot as our father had been an officer in the Royal Horse Guards and had been based at Windsor. We took a ...Read more

A memory of Bridport by Timothy Clarke

Harry was born at spennymoor 1877, he moved to metal bridge in 1898 when he married Elizabeth Joyce born 1878 from Easthowle.They were married at St Lukes church, Ferryhill by vicar ...Read more

A memory of Metal Bridge by Maureen Evers

I came down from Scotland when I was 16 & was a nanny in Broad Hinton for a year for Mr & Mrs Huddy (can't remember the name of the house), & then I decided that I wanted to work with horses, so I got a ...Read more

A memory of Clyffe Pypard in 1969 by Alison Cloy

I lived in Sirdar Road Wood Green Went to Belmont School and Coop Youth club and later TA Tottenham I remember the Blitz in London My sister Ruth and I had many friends around , some from school . Pat Benbow ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1949 by Patricia Scott Bradford

I came to Alllerwash Hall, Fourstones, when it was a private girls' boarding school called St.Oswalds. The Second World War had ended that summer and my mother had died just before Xmas that year, I was eleven. I had had ...Read more

A memory of Allerwash in 1945 by Heather Rosser

I was born in Newsham in 1952 and then moved to Malvins Close shortly after my sister Joyce was born at the end of 1953. I t was a great place to live and Ken Dawson and I roamed all over the place: the beach, ...Read more

A memory of Blyth by Alan Henderson