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When I left High School, in Callander, Perthshire in 1947, I had no idea what to do in life. My father had been a Regular Army Officer, post WW1 and told me that if I enlisted in the ...Read more

A memory of Catterick Garrison in 1948 by Fionn Young

Ok, on Halloween night 2007 some friends and myself wanted to do something different for our Halloween night, so where better to do it than at the old Bodmin prison. So off we set at 9 o'clock taking track to the prison. It was a ...Read more

A memory of Bodmin in 2007 by Trisha May

Margaret and wallflowers The year was 1950. I was thirteen years 'old' and walking along this beach with Margaret, her brother John and my brother, Peter. When we arrived at the spot where the man is sitting in the ...Read more

A memory of Portishead in 1950 by Tony Warren

We didn't go to the cinema all that often and when we did it was a real treat. Fish and chip supper in the cafe upstairs, then into the cinema with its newsreels, local advertisements on slides, supporting 'B' film, forthcoming ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin by John Jarratt

Opposite the Majestic Cinema, you can just see the Tudor brickwork of the Bucks Head Inn, on the London Road corner. It was very rare that my Dad would go in, but we would be sent there at certain times of the year. ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1958 by Carole Baldwin

My memory of West Chiltington as a child is of a sleepy little village where everyone knew each other. As a child I could wander with friends and not be afraid as all the village people knew everyone else. A pleasant stroll up ...Read more

A memory of West Chiltington in 1972 by Carol Spicer

Having grown up in Grappenhall I've seen it develop with time, but its managed to keep its identity, even though there's been a growing demand for redevelopment in the area.   Within the space of a few ...Read more

A memory of Grappenhall in 1990 by Pete Chorley

I remember well the village green ,the stocks and the enormous elm tree, we had to walk from school beside St Margarets church, over the green, past the tree and the stocks to the village hall where we had our lunch(ugh school dinners) ...Read more

A memory of Tintinhull in 1961 by Wendy Leach

In the Necropolis, Section Omega are a number of family lairs containing the following family lines. The Bell Family Lair has the following inscription, James Bell, Printer, 1806 to 1883( James Bell, my Great, ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1890 by James Logan Bell

The concrete streetlamps only appeared in the mid-1950s. Before then, the street lights were puny strutures housing ONE electric bulb. Everything was very dark at night. You would think that all the motorists ...Read more

A memory of Worcester Park in 1950 by Tony Kerr