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My younger brother Russell and I grew up on Coniston Road in Stretford and one of my earliest memories was of going down to the canal armed with pickle jars that had breathing holes stabbed into the lid (a fork from mums kitchen ...Read more

A memory of Stretford in 1971 by Darren Crumbleholme

A party was held on Riverhall street to celebrate the Queens Coronation. It poured down with rain and the girls went somewhere under cover, I think the boys stayed in the rain. Played many games and took part in races.  My sister was a ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1953 by Shelagh Ann Collins

By the 1940s the Grammar School had been rebuilt in Tenterden Street. The building in the photograph became The Wylde Clinic which was the centre for mothers and babies and of course housed the 'dreaded' school dentist. My younger ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1940 by Janet Robinson

This memory is from the year of the Coronation (1953), I was 10 then and the street parties were on, we had ours in Spencers Steel Works canteen and we got a Coronation mug. We went to sleep by the sound of the steam hammer ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

It seems this is the first memory to be posted. My grandparents (Florence and Max Vetterlein) had the Wheatsheaf pub for about six years to 1957. They were tenants of the brewers Charringtons. There ...Read more

A memory of Little Burstead in 1953 by Bruce Bagley

Back in 1976 I moved away from home to work as a photographic salesman at Debenhams in Great Yarmouth. I also helped out at the Norwich branch. I found a 'home from home' at Pavilion Road in Gorleston ...Read more

A memory of Great Yarmouth in 1976 by Stephen Smith

This view of Davenham Church shows the house in which I grew up. The property, the former vicarage, had been split into semi's and I lived in the left hand side as you look - Church Croft. I lived there for 17 years - from Easter 1959 and I love the house to this day!

A memory of Davenham in 1959 by Lynn Quigley

My grandmother Edith Lizzie King was first a seamstress and then I believe the housekeeper at 'the big house,' Coombe Place. She later married the chauffeur Ernest Crane, after looking after his children for many years, his wife having ...Read more

A memory of Offham in 1920

This is only an approximate year of 1954. There was the old hospital at Newburn by the Stanners and it was occupied by these Dutchmen who had came to dredge the Tyne. We would spend many an evening sitting chatting to them as they sat ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1954 by Jimmy Burrows

I lived in the cottage next to the King and Miller and the Co-op stores, Deepcar then was a peaceful village. I attended Deepcar C of E school on Carr Road like most of the children in Deepcar. We attended St ...Read more

A memory of Deepcar by Evelyn Radley