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I remember the excitement of seeing the hovercraft as a child. We used to spend many days on the beach at Penarth usually at the Pier end but when the Hovercraft visited we of course congregated at what we called the 'landing stage' ...Read more

A memory of Penarth in 1963 by Michael Evans

I was born at home at 2 Church Lake and had 2 older sisters, Jo and Barabara. Even as a baby they would take me off on long walks across the church yard and over to Bucky's Meadow towards Venn. Crossing the stream in ...Read more

A memory of Landkey by Nick Crocker

Hello brothers can you remember me Kirby regards to the name susqwatch his name was Darrel Coates I was there 1979 I was transferred from miserly to Barwick with heathcliff Knowles yes it was a hell hole and many a boy suffered also the riots ...Read more

A memory of Barwick by spandoodle

I am going back in history ,now, but reading the various comments brings back many fond memories. I was born in the top house on Milton Road and the view from our front window was identical to the first published, with the exception of ...Read more

A memory of Hoyland by halleric691

I recently visited Goole in search of records of my maternal ancestry. I discovered that my great grand father Bernard Knowles Brook and his 6-yr-old son George from Goole were drowned at Keadby on 9 July 1876. ...Read more

A memory of Keadby in 1870 by Brian Deverall

I was 5 years old when the Second World War started.  My father Alec Lawlor and mother Thirza Booty Lawlor along with my little brother Brian and myself were living in Bristol, West England at the ...Read more

A memory of Stondon Massey in 1940 by David Lawlor

The Blitz started with the Sirens wailing in the early evenings, to warn of the approach of enemy planes. Then complete silence for quite a long time as we waited with mounting apprehension in the passage way, mother, myself, Dennis and David ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1940 by Arthur Cottrell

I was asked to read a lesson by my teacher at St Johns Church, Leytonstone for one of our school services. To my horror, she had me practice reading loudly in the school corridors and left me ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1963 by Dawn Smith

When I was 8 and my brother 10, we went to live in Bawdrip for a short while with my dad who was working there at the time. He took us to stay with an elderly couple, Mr and Milliner, where he was lodging and they looked after us ...Read more

A memory of Bawdrip in 1958 by Catherine Murray

I was evacuated to Drumlithie in September 1939 - being from Glasgow - and Germany was threatening war. I had just turned six years old. I lived in Ford Cottage - close to Kabog House - with Jim and Liz Scott. Went to school ...Read more

A memory of Drumlithie in 1930 by Bill Wyllie