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View from Cliif across to Quarryfields. showing Hightown Lane and Wood Lane, with Holt Lane at the top and Holt Farm.

A memory of Holmfirth

In the fifties I remember the Regal cinema at Temple Fields. I think it was an old factory converted to a cinema. I used to go on Saturday morning with my older brother. You had to be arrive early or it would be full and you would not get ...Read more

A memory of Harlow by Brenda Stapleton

Owen Ellis Roberts was born 8th Sept 1892 at Weoley Park Farm, on his death certificate it said Weogley Park Farm, Northfields, Birmingham, I would like to thank Birmingham archives and Warwickshire library for their help. ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1890 by Don Burville

Although I have visited this pub for drinks and meals on many occasions, my most recent view of it was unusual! br />I took the 55 bus from Tiverton towards Bickleigh ...Read more

A memory of Bickleigh in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

I was born at the bottom of the Rawnsley Road, by the double bridges, known as Pool End, after Hednesford Park which used to be a pool. I was a Cub in the 1st Hazel Slade Scouts, our meeting place was at the church ...Read more

A memory of Hazelslade in 1950 by Peter Hawthorne

I was born in Bovey at what is now the Old Library in East Street, but in 1937 was the Liberal Club. My Godfather Dick Smaridge lived just down the street at Number 14. After his son Eric was shot down in the War I mostly lived ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale in 1954 by Michael Steer

I arrived in Trafford Park in 1936 as I had moved from Chorlton cum Hardy with my sister Marjorie and mother Marjorie. My father had died in 1930. Mother rented a shop at 392 Third Avenue and I started at TP Council School aged ...Read more

A memory of Trafford Park in 1930 by Ken Binks

I have fond memories of Freefolk. I stayed at Freefolk Priors with my Aunt Babs and her three boys around about 1963. We would go down there for the duration of the school holidays and stay in her little house which overlooked the ...Read more

A memory of Freefolk in 1963 by Kathy Jones

I moved to Shawforth from Rochdale around 1977 and grew up on Knott Hill Farm. It was an idyllic childhood, with lots of good friends. I remember at least 5 shops and a library and the Red Lion pub. We spent lots of time playing in ...Read more

A memory of Shawforth by Richard Whittaker

I am so please to have found this site. I was brought up in Lessingham Avenue (off Franciscan Road) but moved to Chasefield Road when i was about 11. I remember going to Saturday morning pictures at the Mayfair and singing the ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1961 by Linda Silver