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Hi there born 16/02/1951 lived at 7 Barton street back to back no longer (there). Had gas lighting and electric lighting and a gas lamp outside my bedroom. Townhead cotton mill was at the bottom of our street and knocker upper use tap ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale by Andrew J Howley

I am writing in the hope that someone can shed some light on my maternal grandmother, Ethel Mary Wright. Ethel was admitted to St Peter's Home, Kilburn in January 1926. The admissions register when being admitted to St ...Read more

A memory of Widmer End by malcp

Mine is not so much my memory as an account of the doings/correspondance relating to Scackleton School from Sept 17th 1928 to the early 1930s. I picked up this school log book in a junk shop 30 years ago and it's just ...Read more

A memory of Scackleton

I was born in Dordan, Warwickshire and moved to Hurley when I was 3 years old. From that point in my life I can honestly say I had a wonderful childhood whilst growing up in the ...Read more

A memory of Hurley in 1961 by Philip Wiggin

I was very fortunate to spend my childhood in Lepe. My mother and father worked at the big house as housemaid and chauffeur to Lady Dilke, we lived on the grounds in the bungalow. We had 8 happy years there. I went to Exbury infant and ...Read more

A memory of Lepe in 1948 by Hilary Williams

I came to croft as I will always remember it, with my Mother and two Sisters, looking for my Dad, who was in a Searchlight detachment in Hurworth. We stayed at first with the Mansfield family, before we got Rose Cottage in Hurworth. I ...Read more

A memory of Croft-on-Tees by tom.f.young

Hi there born 16/02/1951 lived at 7 Barton street back to back no longer (there). Had gas lighting and electric lighting and a gas lamp outside my bedroom. Townhead cotton mill was at the bottom of our street and knocker upper use tap the ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale by Andrew J Howley

Worked at VG from 1969 to 1972. Mrs Rayner was the manageress and Wednesday night was scrubbing the floor night. Lovely place to work. Happy memories. Started nurse training at Mansfield General in January 1973.

A memory of Warsop Vale in 1969 by Kath Potts Nee Butler

Called up in 1952 via Padgate, trained at Wilmslow, then onto training as a touch typist and sent to HQ 90 Group. Spent the rest of service there but was sent out to other statiions to do work of a secret nature. RAF Malvern ...Read more

A memory of Medmenham in 1952 by Gerald Harvey

I am trying to find old photos or maps of 50 Meden Bank, Station Hill, Nr Mansfield, from 1920's to 1935 any thing related to that area, where my mum grew up.She always had fond memories of growing up there.

A memory of Mansfield in 1945 by Sandra Horsfield