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I remember walking to Brierley Hill Grammar school and back home to Pensnett most days, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends. We walked up Mill Street then down the High Street, with Chattin and Hortons, Woolworths to ...Read more

A memory of Pensnett in 1952 by Edna Stephens

I was born in 1950, and lived in Edenfield from 1955-1961, when we moved to Stubbins. I went to the primary school, where the teachers were Mrs Horton and Mr. Parker. Then he was followed by Mr. Howorth. My friends at the school at ...Read more

A memory of Edenfield in 1950 by Stephen Taylor

George Dodds, my grandfather, was manager of Corton Wood Colliery, any info of his life and where he lived at 3 Chapel Avenue would be appreciated.

A memory of Wombwell in 1930 by Peter Downs

I recall my grandmother, Florence Peyton, who lived in Little Horton Lane writing a poem about the Slum Clearance and High Rise Flats Programmes of the early 1960s. The poem was ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by michaelpeterpeyton

I recall other far more sinister events which took place at number 82 Annesley Mount. I first became aware of these events in 1953 when the Sunday night discussion took on a hushed and serious tone. My ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by michaelpeterpeyton

Just come across this site,so many memories ,the odeon,Market hall,animal Market,swimming baths etc but also worked at Cowleys ironmongers on Saturday's,delivered papers from nearby papers shop on Sunday's.went to st Mathews ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1950 by Bryan Elphick

I Worked at Corton Beach Holiday Club..1964.Cant remember Rogerson Hall..Unless they changed the name..I can remember Robert Sillers at the time he lived in Lowestoft...If anyone Knows me Please get in touch Robert Green. Now Living In Nuneaton Warwickshire

A memory of Corton in 1964 by Robert Green

I moved to Horton Heath when I was 7 with my brother and parents. We lived in Burnetts Fields and it was just a cul de sac of about 28 houses and was known as Burnetts Gardens, the surrounding area were fields. The next ...Read more

A memory of Horton Heath in 1970

I am trying to trace a very old friend. She was Ann Williams and her father was the landlord of the Dyfryn Hotel in Caerau. Ann married someone ? from Clarks Shoe Shop in Bridgend in around 1953/54. Is there anyone out there who ...Read more

A memory of Bridgend in 1953 by Brenda Smith

In the 1950s I used to stay with my grandparents in their bungalow (The Aspens, adjacent to Raynor's Farm) in what is now called Farm Road; it is not even a road now but simply an access gate to the ...Read more

A memory of Wraysbury in 1955 by Ron Burg