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Going swimming in Harpurhey swimming baths, in the old stone steps pool, then when we finished, was allowed to have a bath in the cast iron baths - brings back memories.

A memory of Harpurhey in 1976 by Brian Green

My aunt and uncle live still in Elm Street, Mr and Mrs Webb. Anyone know them ? My grandad, now passed, used to live in Holly Street. My brother and I have many memories of Gilfach - taken there to see family for ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1860

I used to work in the Laboratory at Creaton Sanatorium. It was my first job after leaving Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. I started in the Lab at Northampton General Hospital and was transferred to Creaton. I used to cycle to ...Read more

A memory of Creaton in 1953 by Nial Reynolds

I believe I was sent to Brentwood following a stay in Hither Green Fever Hospital with whooping cough. I seem to have been in a ward named Poplars 3. I have two very strong memories of that stay. I was 5 years old. First, I was ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood in 1930 by Beryl Padgham

I was born in 1931 at Mount Vernon N.H in nearby East Retford. My father was a charge warder at Rampton State Institution. Woodbeck was the exclusive housing estate for staff working at the State Institution. We were allocated a ...Read more

A memory of Woodbeck by Clifford Charlesworth

I lived in Woodland Close throughout my childhood and started at Kingsbury Green Primary School in 1959. The classrooms were brightly painted, and the smells of plasticine, paints, crayons, pink (carbolic) soap and school dinners ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1959 by Jackie Hayles

We moved to Swffryd from Six Bells where we lived with my grandparents. My family; Thomas Griffiths (Dad,) Iris Griffiths (Mam,) and myself Gareth Griffiths moved into a brand new built 2 bedroom flat in 19A Bron-y-Bryn (now ...Read more

A memory of Swffryd in 1953 by Julie Griffiths

I came to live in Boro with my parents, George & Mary Smith, and my young sister Karen, from Wingate, Co. Durham. My Dad was to take over as the first caretaker of the new Longlands College, which was still being ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1957 by George Smith

My father was born in Ivington, Leominster, at Gatter Tops, then Park Gate, one of eight children. The girls worked in service, and the boys worked the land. Times were hard in the 30's. We have a few photos of back then.

A memory of Ivington in 1930 by Catherine Tyler/Nee Gough

The wife Val and I moved to Holme just married in early October 1974, Val had to a job in the office at Northern Dairies and had to work weekends entering the number of milk churns that came from the farms on the lorries. ...Read more

A memory of Holme in 1974 by Harry Nicholson