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In 1956 I came to work in Scotland having been transferred from Yorkshire by the NCB. I needed a house and the semi derelict house known as Roanshead House was available, but boarded up and was not on mains electricity. My wife ...Read more

A memory of Easthouses in 1957 by Douglas Jenkinson

I was born in Reading in May 1945, came to 'middle' Derinton Road in Tooting as a baby (mum had been evacuated) to live with her, my dad, nan, grandad and my aunty Joyce until we moved to Streatham in, I think in 1956. But my nan, ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Maureen Dove

First impressions of Corby We moved to Corby, then known as Corby New Town, in 1954, when I was 10. I hated it with a passion having been brought up in the country. Born in Suffolk, where my parents kept a pub in Elmswell, ...Read more

A memory of Corby in 1954 by Vivienne Hedges

I lived in Taunton from about 1953 until I left for London and then on to the States in 1969...I lived in Stoke Road and went to St. Joseph's Convent and then to Weirfield, which is now a part of Taunton School, I believe. A ...Read more

A memory of Rumwell in 1967 by Gillian Turner

I have many happy memories from when I was younger, through to my teenage years holidaying in Nelson Village. I always went with my nana and grandad, to visit my aunty Maggie Carruthers. She lived at ...Read more

A memory of Nelson Village by Patricia Denny

My memories of Taxal were all good and I really looked forward to going back there. The staff were very kind, we had the best food, and rambling through those beatiful peaks was just one big adventure, we were very sick ...Read more

A memory of Taxal in 1950 by William Thompson

I stand to be corrected; have been asking around about our dookin holes or places in the river Garnock where we used to swim. Starting at the Conga; the wee lynn, the gless cutter, the Zambezzy, the Comb, the ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie in 1960 by John Allan

I am Keith, grandson to Walter & Gertrude Sumner of Attorney Garth and cousin to Andrew Shepard, son of Betty (Elizabeth) Sumner. Many happy days my brother (Ray) & I spent with my grandparents. Many times ...Read more

A memory of Penruddock in 1955 by Keith Milton Barker

Both my parents were born in Portsmouth & grew up virtually opposite each other. My paternal grandparents lived at No 1 Station Rd, Copnor, and my mother lived at various addresses in portsmouth - latterly St Bernards, ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth

I have picked 1953 because I was ten then. My father, Willie, was a Hughes and my mother, Ekbery, was a Farrell. There were loads of us in the Ferry. I lived in 9 St John St then we moved the 5 Louden ...Read more

A memory of Creetown in 1953 by Howard Hughes