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My family took over the butchers in Swallowfield, it used to be called Turners. My father-in-law, everyone knew him as Curly, was quite a character. It was a family concern and my job was to make local deliveries in an ...Read more

A memory of Swallowfield in 1957

I am wondering if anyone remembers the lorry which went out of control and went down the hill in Cotmandene Crescent possible early fifties. I think a child pushed a baby in a pram into a shop but this child was hit by the lorry?

A memory of St Paul's Cray

I was working at Bangor Docks as a painter of a Trawler called the Brizley; it was a wooden boat of about forty feet long. I had to sleep on the boat within the crews cabin of which was below deck. Now the thing about Bangor ...Read more

A memory of Maesgeirchen in 1983 by Roland Mitchell

In 1965 I was the second baby to be born in the new baby ward at Princess Alexandra Hospital. I wonder who was the first?

A memory of Harlow in 1965 by Alison Heritage

We arrived in Newcastle in September 1955, from Malay, (Malaysia) where we were housed in that fortification of red brick buildings: Fenham Barracks. After a couple of weeks I eventually became acclimatised ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1954

I would have liked to have gone back to Hawtreys as I was very happy there, but one day the Vicar came and asked mother if he could speak to me. He asked if I had got a place in mind and if I hadn't would ...Read more

A memory of Ledsham in 1930 by George Allen

I am delighted to add a memory to this page. From 1952, (aged 5 years), I had T.B. and eventually went in January 1958, for 6 months, to Heswall Childrens Hospital.I was in the Florence Gibson Ward, and was looked ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1958 by Linda Williams

I worked as an electrician on the installation of all the electrical services in conjunction with RCA and others. I lived in a residential caravan at the Flask Inn, on the coast road, with my wife and at that time ...Read more

A memory of Fylingdales Moor in 1962 by Jack Hogg

My grandparents lived in Colerne, my mother Minnie Louise Rowe was born there around the 1880s and my father William Simpkins lived in Colerne with the Aust family from when he was a baby. I was born in Bath in Kingsmead Road in ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1920 by Edgar Simpkins

I was four years old when I moved to Gilfach Goch with my sister Pauline and my dad Samual James Carson and my mam Sybil (Mills), she was from Gilfach and so was most of her family. We lived with my Gransher, Mark ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch by Joyce Williams