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My memory of Thorpe Salvin was going to play football against the village football team. I can remember walking from Kiveton Park to Thorpe Salvin cricket / football ground with my mates ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe in 1964 by Derick Smith

Hi Everyone i also grew up mostly on mill lane estate (woodlands ave ) and went to St Marks School (head Master Mr Thorpe) you all have jogged my memory to fantastic times around woodley. i also remember snuches ha ha played ...Read more

A memory of Woodley by Anthony Bentley

As the classic 18ft long local dayboat classes became more expensive to build and maintain, there was an explosion of smaller, cheaper racing dinghy classes all round the UK, ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by julian

Location clue - the glazed, cream-painted passenger shelter atop the sea wall, originally built as the Terminus Station for the Esplanade Trams, then taken over by the ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

In 2014, across the road there are tennis courts, and from Google Earth it looks like a thriving Sports Centre. If there were tennis courts on that site in 1963, hardly ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

In 2014, across the road there are tennis courts, and from Google Earth it looks like a thriving Sports Centre. If there were tennis courts on that site in 1963, hardly ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

I was born in 1952 in Redruth, but we lived in the prefabs which were built in Pengegon after the war. Two years later we emigrated to South Africa, where I still live. My mother, Thora Horler (nee Bawden) still talks ...Read more

A memory of Redruth in 1952 by Vivien Horler

Like the former correspondent, I remember Miss Briggs (Fanny) who took the top class. The book she read was the autobiography of Albert Schweitzer; a missionary in Africa. Miss Briggs seemed to have eyes in the back of her head. ...Read more

A memory of Bredbury in 1955 by David Street

Some more teachers that I remember are Miss Cooper, Mr Nicholson, Mr Downs, Mrs Irish, Mr Stevens (I think he went York to start his and his wife's own buisness), Mr Howarth the garden teacher, and Mr Thorpe the woodwork teacher. Some of ...Read more

A memory of Selby in 1961 by Glenn Barrett

I have a great-grandfather and several of his brothers who went to this grammar school in the 1830s and 1840s and they all had very nice writing with perfect copperplate. So maybe the severity on the outside was reflected in the ...Read more

A memory of Rye