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I lived in Lemington untill 1954 approx and we lived in the front row of the Pit Row houses. We could stand outside and watch the trains going past full of coal and wave to the drivers, playing on the pit heaps, wouldn't like the ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1953 by Rosemary Cawley

My Mother and I arrived in 1974, from a divorced Warrington and the dilapidation of the north-west. Merrily drinking tea and eating custard tarts in the bare miners' cottage living room, sitting in a deck chair and eating from a ...Read more

A memory of Gwespyr in 1977 by James Harrison

At the right hand side of the photo is a huge horse chestnut tree, that stood in the front garden of the house on the corner of Nork Way and Warren Road. As a little girl, l would walk to the shops at Nork with my mother, from our ...Read more

A memory of Nork in 1959 by Patricia White

How these shops have got a lot busier now - looking at this photograph, it seems so quiet then. Since this photograph was taken there has been many changes of owners. On the green, next to the old butchers ...Read more

A memory of Cefn Glas by David Rule

I read about a contributor who went to Joyce Williams School of dance and memories came flooding back. I recall Mrs Bigwood making all the costumes and her daughter being one of the older girls in the school. I ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1960 by Suzanne Savill

I was brought up at Onesacre and as a child I can remember going down to the old school house where Mr & Mrs Jones lived. They used to have boarding kennals and they kept a goat in the croft at the end of the lane. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Oughtibridge in 1967 by Edward Penistone

I attended Brown Rigg from 1964 to 1966. As I recall, Bent Toe got stuck in a mud hole and was that exhausted with trying to get out it was kinder to have him put to sleep as the stress and strain on his heart, he was a big horse. I ...Read more

A memory of Bellingham in 1964 by Derick Stewart

I lived near the top of Downscourt Rd, my back garden exiting in St James Rd. Every day I would walk up and down that hill to Roke Primary and later around the local area delivering newspapers for 'Scobles' the ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1970 by Simon Bull

I was born in Selly Oak hospital in 1951. My name is Christine - father, William Hughes, mother Barbara Garrett. I have an elder brother, Terrence Hughes born 1949. We live 1 back of 595 Bristol Road, where the ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1951 by Christine Arthurs

This photo takes me back to when I was 5 years old and used to go to the supermarket in the Westmoreland Centre at Bromley South with my mum. It always seemed to be windy there, although I expect this is just the only time I ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1972 by Vicki Waving