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I have driven - very slowly - past The Ness many times whenever our family makes our way up the steep narrow lane from the Shaldon sea front to the car park. For the very first time I went inside one evening ...Read more

A memory of Shaldon in 2012 by John Howard Norfolk

I was born 1948 in Chop Well and lived in South Terrace down by Mark and Lenin Terraces. Played cricket for the juniors and had friends called Bill Bailley and John Baum. My cousins where Tom and Bill Hughes. My eldest brother ...Read more

A memory of High Spen in 1948 by Peter Scott

I was born to Michael and Mary Murray (nee Williamson) at 79 Reather Street - a long terrace street running between Rochdale Road and Oldham Road about a mile and a half from the city centre. I remember going to Osborne ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1950 by Margaret Cooke

My parents Leo Landy and Mary Casey, then engaged, were coming back from Petts Wood in the evening when the bombs started falling, they began to run, but my mother started having hysterics and my father had ...Read more

A memory of St Mary Cray in 1942 by Mary Vandervell

I'm trying to remember back a long time, hopefully someone can help out. Grandparents on Dad's side lived in Ystrad, in a house I think was called Pentwyn, in Penallta Road, on a slight hill not far from a railway overbridge ...Read more

A memory of Ystrad Mynach in 1958 by David Field

I'm Glynne Lewis. I was born in Co. Durham but the Lewis family lived at 26, Gelli St. for many years. We visited the family during the 1950s and 60s although several of the sisters had moved to other parts of the UK by then. My ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1950 by Glynne Lewis

When I was a young girl I was shown newspaper cuttings of my father John F Fife modelling an asbestos fire suit he had designed and made in his factory work shop at Percy Main. My older brother aged ...Read more

A memory of North Shields in 1930 by Elizabeth Johnson

Hi, My family the Burgins lived in Thornley when I was younger and a lot of them still live there now. We lived in Hartlepool Street in an old public house. We used to go down to Fleming's shop for the penny lollies. Our house backed ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1967 by Suzanne Thubron

The first Madeira memory etched in my brain is the landing at (the original) Funchal Airport. The pilot had to land, brake and bring the aircraft to a standstill within seconds. White knuckle stuff!! The ...Read more

A memory of Royal Pavilion in 1974

Can anyone help my daughter who currently lives in Mill St. Farington and has always wondered why there is a gap in the terraced houses in this road. Rumour is that there was an explosion ...gas?... sometime in the last 75 years. We ...Read more

A memory of Farington