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I was there at the time Theresa writes about, and my 4 children were too. I remember you and your brother playing in the hall, and nearly getting killed when you knocked the grandfather clock down. Your mom and I would walk to the ...Read more

A memory of Innellan in 1963 by Doris Wickerd

If Ben went past the Jezerels on his way home from the Tech School he must have been on a no 8 bus and not on his usual 45. The No 8 went up Canterbury St to the Top Rd and then up the Rainham Maidstone Rd to Bredhurst past the ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by Diane Youens

Our family lived at Silverdale Crossings until 1959. Mother had a small sweets and general stores shop, Father worked as crossing keeper until his death in 1959, the house (now demolished) came with the job. Initially he ...Read more

A memory of Silverdale in 1959 by Frank Hodkinson

I lived in Talbot Road back then with my foster sisters and our wonderful Foster Mum Mrs. Jones. I can remember attending Orchard Road Junior School durring the Queens Silver Jubilee and getting a coin with the ...Read more

A memory of Dibden Purlieu in 1977 by Andrew Price

I lived in Dorset Road, Mottingham from birth, 1947. I have so many happy memories of what was then a real village. I can remember that no one owned a car in our road and it became our playground with hopscotch, marbles etc. I ...Read more

A memory of Mottingham

In the early 1940s my father was a coastguard stationed at Barry Island. I was about 5 years old and I vividly remember that one day I was sat on my 3-wheeled bike at the top of the hill and a German aircraft flew over at a ...Read more

A memory of Barry Island in 1940 by Derek Cousins

I remember the Grammar School well - I got transferred from Mexborough Tech because I had failed my 11+ Then I actually got to TEACH at the Grammar School whena student when the music teacher was ill for a ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1956 by Terry Ladlow

I went to St Wilfrid's Junior in Blyth. Great times, great memories. Rafts on the river at Cowpen, summer days up Humford and the hapenny woods. Days out at the Spanish City. Pit galas, the waltzer on the market place, ...Read more

A memory of Blyth in 1955 by Anthony Tolhurst

My grandparents lived at 41 Shaftesbury Crescent near the baseball ground from 1946 till 1980, next door lived Ethel Paling, she was a wonderful cook, the smell of her baking I can still remember today. Next to Ethel was Mr ...Read more

A memory of Pear Tree in 1946 by Gayle Megill

I remember doing the transition from the infants school below the British Legion and going to the "Top school" just by the now defunct St Gabriel's church for the first time and paying 1d bus fare to get up there from my home in ...Read more

A memory of Blaengwynfi by Rob Brown