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I was brought up in this small village, lived at 1, St John's Road with my grandparents Frank and Emily Potter. Then, when the prefabs were built in Graig-Felen, my parents and my two sisters moved there. My ...Read more

A memory of Clydach in 1959 by Kathleen Potter

This picture is of Queenie Shuttler's cottage. She used to keep a cow and made the most delicious cream. Her brother, Les Shuttler, drove me to and from the bus stop, about 4 miles away at the White Hart, Poulner, to go to school ...Read more

A memory of Linwood in 1968 by R A Fletcher

I was a pupil at Ridley Hall back in the days when it was a boarding school, I was only there for one term, but have happy memories of the Hall and its grounds.

A memory of Bardon Mill in 1957 by William Sanderson

Attended Houghton Road Junior School, then in 1944 the Hill School. Lived 45 Windsor Street. Memories going to school eating breakfast of bread and dripping, transporting a ton of coal from the street to the coal house at ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe by Dennis Flavell

I lived at 136 Meadway, out of the back door, down the garden and on to fields. My Aunty Lucy never locked the door when we went to shop, you could trust people then, happy days.

A memory of Streethouse in 1960 by Michael Brown

I attended Downshall Infants, Junior and Seniors; not the happiest of days for me. I remember being treated quite badly by Mrs Mansell in junior school who really had it in for me because my mother was a bit of a ...Read more

A memory of Seven Kings

One of my earliest memories of school in Easington is of Miss Nicholson telling my mother, Alice Stephenson, nee Griffiths, that she would look out for me when I started at Easington Infants. Actually, I was never in ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery by Carol Donald

I was in the first intake of the newly built Chippenham Grammar School. When we arrived for our first day there were no chairs, as war had just been declared and all transport had been commandeered for the movement ...Read more

A memory of Chippenham in 1930 by Joyce Holmes

My name is Michael Mancey. In 1949, when I was four years old, my parents, youngster sister and I, moved to a brand new council house in Windsor Road. Although the postal address was Hounslow West, it was in ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1950 by Michael Mancey

I lived in Camden Park Road back in the 1990's and I read Mr Arthur Battle's book, Edwardian Chislehurst, when I was living there. He was 90 when he wrote it, and it was published in 1988. It was fascinating to read his ...Read more

A memory of Chislehurst by Andrew Trent