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I remember the lad that used to have the hot dog bike on the burns every weekend, that was about 1963. I drove the buses down Chester in 1967. Good times, never to come back.

A memory of Chester-Le-Street in 1967 by David Kitching

My name is John Jeffrey. Our family lived in the sandstone buildings across from Youngs Windows known as Munroe Place. Our house number was 66 Millbank Road. I remember a few names when growing up there till ...Read more

A memory of Wishaw

I was sent there for the school holidays to recover from Whooping Cough when I was 8 years old. It was awful. We had to sleep in a dormatory with a nun in charge who slept behind a curtain. Every time I coughed ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1955 by Jacky Thomson

During the 1940s my parents lived on Bryn Lupus Road, Llanrhos Corner. I was born in Treherne House was the first house next to the Corner. One of our rambles was to cross the fields and walk through the woods ...Read more

A memory of Bryn in 1940 by Geoffrey Mason Jones

Church House Farm was a large white building nestled neath the shadows of the great Yew trees that bordered the graveyard of All Saints Church, Shelsley Beauchamp, the other side of the River Teme from Shelsley Walsh. The ...Read more

A memory of Shelsley Walsh by Antony Cook

My husband's father Frank Baker, worked at Starting Post Farm on All Alone Road near Idle. His cousin Albert Drew, was in the fields with him when a German air plane came down. Does anyone have any memories of this and know the time of day ...Read more

A memory of Saltaire in 1941

My only memory of Whitefield is turning out to play football for Manchester YMCA in a league fixture away from "home" in 1967. It was a reserve team game, we paid our own bus fares to reach the park, I ...Read more

A memory of Whitefield in 1967 by John Howard Norfolk

I sometimes stayed with my Uncle Frank and Auntie Florrie Allen in Stoford in the 1940s and 1950s. He was a signalman for the Southern Railway at Yeovil Pen Mill Station and would ...Read more

A memory of Stoford in 1954 by John Howard Norfolk

We lived on Coniston Road, the Smith family in the Fryin Pan, does anyone remember us? Jean, Barbara, Jimmy and Pat, we lived next door to the Kkennedys and no-one either side of us. Lots of happy memories, my brother Jimmy and I ...Read more

A memory of Stretford by Barbara Politi

I was with the USAF and had just spent a year in Morocco. We were assigned to RAF Bentwaters but worked at RAF Woodbridge with the 79th. Coming into the country we first stayed at the White Hart Inn in ...Read more

A memory of Wickham Market in 1960 by Thomas Beasley,Jr