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I used to go to Sacred Heart in Gorton. We lived at No 2 Barton Avenue, our back yard backed directly onto the beer garden of the Vale Cottage. I can still remember the smell of the empty pale-ale bottles. My sister Kathleen also went to ...Read more

A memory of Gorton by Anthony Davies

Joseph Buckley my great great grandfather, was a photographer, known as Owd Ab from the Ben Brierley character. ​In Volume 1 of Ben Brierley's “Lancashire Stories”, is another short tale “A "Strike" Adventure or The ...Read more

A memory of Daisy Nook by bigcityfan

Hope memorial camp left by Arthur hope in the 1920s, we left our school in London black heath at 8:30am on June 3rd 2019 and arrived at 4:30pm the same day. i was sick twice on the coach and twice in the ...Read more

A memory of Braithwaite

I lived in the model cottages on avenue road Tottenham throughout my childhood, what good times they were, I remember playing on the old railway embankment at the top of the road and many hours spent over chestnuts park, ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham by colin5050

I was born in William St, Fleur-de-Lys in 1950. My mother Mavis Mason and father Ivor Jones were both from Commercial Street Aberbargoed. Dad started work in Bargoed Colliery in 1936, after leaving Lewis school Pengam, where his ...Read more

A memory of Aberbargoed by jonesrg50

Born at 9 East st then moved to no 28 in the mid 50s there was not a lot of money then but a lot of love and it was safe . I went to Brook st school Mrs Ashby and Mr ...Read more

A memory of Snodland by skycotime

Hello Everyone, Over the years I have been looking at my family history, in fact in 1985, while living in Shetland, I started to trace my family name. Now leaping forward to the start of this awful time, I commenced a more ...Read more

A memory of Warrington by Arthur Forster

My family lived at number 9 Westgate street. Walter and Elizabeth White and their nine children!!! A couple of the boys apparently built church pews for St Joseph's church, Bugle Street around 1887. One of ...Read more

A memory of Southampton in 1870 by Jackie Wild

My first memory is of being carried by my mother Bettie "welsh fashion" in a lovely thick shawl,from Constant row,where i was born up the Moriah hill over moriah bridge and the canal to the quarry,where my Grancha Holder ...Read more

A memory of Risca by Jayne Hanks Nee Holder

What a wonderful place to explore and grow up in, particularly as a history loving child. Born in Southport to await my father's return from army service in 1945, we soon moved back to the family origins in Chester. The Taylor ...Read more

A memory of Chester in 1955 by Sandra Brown