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I was born in the house that lays back just out of view in this photo. The house was built in 1954 and our family were the only people to live there up until my father's death in 2008. I was born in the house, as were both my ...Read more

A memory of Peasmarsh in 1954 by Carole Watson

On my first few week at starting Beavale Infants School I will always remember on rainy cold mornings that my mum always let me and my brothers Robert and Peter travel to school on the B5 bus, a big blue double ...Read more

A memory of Greasley in 1959

We moved to Fawley in 1954 and I spent my last 2 years of Secondary School at Hardley. My brothers John and Trev also went there. I have vivid memories of lying in bed on a clear frosty night and seeing the reflection of the ...Read more

A memory of Fawley by Jeannette Lomas

I remember my mother buying a hot black pudding in Bury Market and giving half to me and the other half to my sister. It was absolutely freezing weather and it was used as much to keep our hands warm as for food. I can't even bear ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1952

I lived in Wigpool after the Second World War with my new wife and baby son. There were no proper roads to the village, just mud tracks which became impassable in the winter for vehicles. This meant we had to ...Read more

A memory of Wigpool Common in 1948 by Colin Hall

Hi Bill. Just picked up your memories of Denham which is really great. You may not remember me but I remember you and your Dad, Sargeant Smith. I was born in 1940 in Courtfield Gardens a small cul-de-sac ...Read more

A memory of Denham by John Hawkins

I attended Holy Trinity Primary School, Church of England, at Darwen in the year 1955, when I was six years of age. There was a spiritual bond between the school and the Holy Trinity Church, as it was then ...Read more

A memory of Darwen in 1955 by Peter Farley

I was born in Ravensthorpe in 1937, went to school at St Saviour's infants and the Secondary Modern school until I was 15 years of age. I began working at Hartley Bros, a leather mill at the bottom of Scout Hill, later I worked at ...Read more

A memory of Dewsbury in 1960 by Ken Parratt

In reply to Keith Hawkins' appeal to anyone that knew of F.W. Hawkins shop on Hosier Street, Reading, I used this shop during the 1950s as a small boy while spending the weekends with my Nan & Grandad who lived at 61 ...Read more

A memory of Reading in 1955 by John Shrubb

I was born at 274 Coulsdon Road in 1946, my father had a business in Caterham-on-the-Hill and my paternal grandparents lived at 31 Canons Hill - all my childhood was spent in the area so I have a lot of ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1955 by Colin Puttick