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Monday 7th July 1958, aged 8, moved to Britwell, Slough from Merstham in surrey with my brother Martin, Mum & Dad (Joan & Ron). Transport was a problem - we didn’t have any. There was only room for three of us in the ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Phil Cooke

My mum was born in March 1931 in the Easington Colliery area, 26 Boyd Street, and was the youngest of 5.  All the men in the family were miners - they lived close to Easington and Horden for work. The two elder sisters, ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1940

I went to school in Queens Road in 1949, it was called Hazelhurst, I was there until 1953 then when to Pitmans in Russell Road. I lived in SW20  as it was then and married in 1960 in Morden registry office, happy memories of Wimbledon. I now live in Three Bridges in Sussex.

A memory of Morden in 1949 by Sonja Moffatt

My Memories of Lifton. I was born in 1946 lived in Lifton until I got married in 1971. I lived in Fore Street, next door lived Mr Brown, he used to repair shoes in his little shed in the garden and I used to watch him ...Read more

A memory of Lifton in 1960 by Brian Keighley

November 17th 1952 I left home from Earlestown Station for Liverpool to join the Royal Navy as a boy seamen. I proceeded to St. Johns Lane then onto the train headed for London and Ipswich and eventually to HMS Ganges ...Read more

A memory of Newton-le-Willows in 1952 by Neville Pearson

From 1935 to 1941 I was a pupil at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Crediton, travelling every day by train from Morchard Road Station, leaving home at ten minutes past eight to board the eight thirty ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland

My father believes the man in the carpenter's apron in photographs 60995 and 60995x may be Francis New. The carpentry business he is standing in front of was eventually taken over my grandfather, John ...Read more

A memory of Chilton Foliat

I used to live in Marchwiel some three miles away. We used to cycle to Bangor on hot days in the school holidays to swim in the river. I had a very beautiful girlfriend by the name of Barbara Jones, she lived right by the milk ...Read more

A memory of Bangor on Dee in 1968 by Colin Roberts

Memories of walking to school, which was then West End Junior School, sited above the west end of Abercarn. Walking from Mount Pleasant, through Richard Thomas & Baldwin's Office yard, past Williams's stores, under the ...Read more

A memory of Abercarn in 1958 by Brian John Watkins

My house backed onto Wyndham Hill and I spent my childhood playing over there. My cousin and I loved to watch the steam trains passing by and sometimes (if our parents weren't nearby) would run onto the bridge at Pen Mill ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1966 by Kim Cavanagh