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Farsley was a great place to grow up. I lived there from 1937 till 1955. As kids we had great fun playing in the beck just above the Cricket Field, before the Council Estate was built. When it was wet we played in the ...Read more

A memory of Farsley by colin.colville

I was born in 1955 and grew up in Ingleboro Drive. Our house, number 12, backed on to the woods, and my brother Robert and I would play out there at every opportunity. Of course, as we grew, we climbed the trees, and I ...Read more

A memory of Riddlesdown by Stephen Drake

In the early 1950s myself and two friends had been fishing at the top of Church Hill, Saxmundham. We stopped at a copse halfway down and explored. Removing some rampant Ivy, we uncovered a concrete cover on a well. To our ...Read more

A memory of Saxmundham by John Fisher

I lived in Elm Park Avenue and was brought up there with my two older sisters. In the 1950's you knew everyone along the street my end. We spent a lot of time in Harrow Lodge Park, jumping across streams and climbing the ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch

I attended this school in the 1960's when it was Stanley Park Secondary Modern/High School. The school moved here in 1965 or 1966 from the building further up Stanley Park Road. I lived at 138, Stanley ...Read more

A memory of Wallington by Robin Hickman

I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

CATERHAM HILL - High Street and Chaldon Road I lived in 20 Chaldon Road and 5-7 High Street, Caterham Hill as a young child from about 9 years old. I went to the Infant school in Chaldon Road. On Friday mornings a Siren was used to ...Read more

A memory of Caterham by kjba.hester

My grandparent's on mother's side lived in top flat of Otterburn, Stroncarraig Brae, Rhubaan and my first visit was in August 1938 on a three weeks holiday from my home in Penarth, South Wales. My grandfather had a small open motor ...Read more

A memory of Tighnabruaich by Alastair Urquhart

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954

My earliest memories are of Aldringham. I was born in the Police Station on Mill Hill in 1937, the youngest of three children. My father was the local policeman, P.C. James McGuire. I often wonder now how my mother managed, with ...Read more

A memory of Aldringham by maureen