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Some of my happiest childhood memories are of the holidays the family spent at Withernsea, staying at my Grandmothers caravan. Her name was Clara Peat and my first visit would have ...Read more

A memory of Withernsea in 1956 by David Peat

i have many happy thoughts of walsall the old gaumont where i won a free ticket and meal witghthe manager for a cayoning and we watched the alamo wonder what happened to the others who won i think there was three off us,the savoy ...Read more

A memory of Walsall in 1963 by Tony Bickley

I was sent to stay at Ormorod House in 1953 or 1954 for 4weeks recuperation following a tonsillectomy because we lived in condemned property at the time. The journey from Walsall took forever, I was 7 years old and ...Read more

A memory of Lytham in 1953 by Marilyn Degville

I have very fond memories of Pilgrim Wood from 1980. The children would make rope swings in the woods, pets were smuggled in on occasion. Not such a nice walk all the way up Sandy Lane, and children had to share ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1980 by Jane Finbow

I arrived in High Wycombe in as a young girl in 1946, from Scotland. I attended St. Bernard's Convent school. It was situated in a very large old house on the London Road, across from the Rye. We wore school uniforms, ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1955 by Maureen Ingram

Nessie McManus (nee Rich) I remember lots of things about Fallin, how we used to walk all the way to school, home for lunch, back to school and home again, must have been all of at least 1 1/2 miles every time. I certainly remember ...Read more

A memory of Fallin by Nessie Mc Manus

I lost both my parents, and was sent away to boarding school, which was Hyde Hall. I remember the day I arrived because it was thick snow, and I had to walk all the way from the station with my welfare officer and then up the ...Read more

A memory of Sawbridgeworth in 1955

I was sorry to leave the village, some of my best memories of my childhood relate to Gainford and its residents. I lived in what was known locally as 'knobs row' or High Row, no.13. One of my best friends was a boy whose ...Read more

A memory of Gainford in 1969 by Penny Airlie

My family owned the Chinese laundry at the corner of Cannon St. and Liverpool Rd. The laundry was named the Soo Wing Laundry, after my grandfather. I was born in August 1941 and, as a baby, I remember being wrapped in ...Read more

A memory of Patricroft in 1940 by Peter Soo

My parents had a shop in Balsall Heath Road not far from Cannon Hill Park - there was a murder committed there around that time. I used to catch the tram to town and in Lewis's basement you could get crabs' legs loaded with ...Read more

A memory of Birmingham in 1950 by Matt O.B.O Roy Anderson