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My mother was Irene Harrison who was raised by her aunt Eve Forster in the cottage to the left of the White Horse, her uncles (possibly older cousins) Tom and Bill Harrison ran the blacksmiths on the village green and delivered milk from ...Read more

A memory of Welton in 1953 by James Sherman

My maternal grandmother and three of her siblings were born in Watchfield in the 1860-1870s. As far as I know they lived in a farm cottage, until they moved to Highworth in the late 1870s where they lived in the public house called 'The ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield in 1870 by John Williams

My strongest memories of Lewisham is there being three cinemas there. The Gaumont (where I saw the Beatles live in the 1960s) - I went to Saturday morning pictures there. The Rex cinema, just by the bridge ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham by Jackie Walder

My grandparents had a van on Ockwells, from 1967 or 68, right on the perimeter road next to ICI. The hum and hiss of the plant sent us to sleeo many times. One Sunday morning,however, we were rudely awakened by a booming noise like ...Read more

A memory of Rossall Point in 1967 by David Hebblethwaite

I was born in 1946 and spent the first 3 years living in a curved un-insulated "nissen" hut next to the gunsight in Adel. We then moved to 71 Raynel Way in 1949. I attended Cookridge School and used to walk up ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge in 1949 by Brian Jarvis

I started work at 15 when I worked at the quilt factory, I later went to work at Tizer pop factory. I had smashing mates there my own age but we all got on with the older women as well. Friday night was the best night of the ...Read more

A memory of Byker by D Olly

As a very young lad I lived on Ankerdine Crescent on Shooter's Hill, but Mum frequently took me down to Woolwich for shopping on the market. I can clearly remember a butcher's stall close to Powis Street where ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1930 by Barry W J Chandler

My grandmother bought the Grove Hall and ran it as a small country hotel. I remember having my birthday parties in the dinning room. As kids we also used to play with the swords and battle axes that were hanging on the walls. ...Read more

A memory of Bodfari in 1958 by Michael Blackshaw

I have mentioned in passing that Intake did not have the same panache as say Balby, Hexthorpe or Armthorpe in places of entertainment but it did provide some wide open spaces to play in. Over the Armthorpe ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1946 by Frank Mowforth

During the Second World War I was sometimes taken by my mother to stay with her grandmother, Mrs Bevis, at the house called Rivermead, about 100 yards downhill from the church, by a sharp bend to the left. Mrs Bevis must have ...Read more

A memory of Sandhurst in 1942 by Bevis Lake