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This is how I remember Runcorn as a young person. You could buy anything you needed from clothes to furniture, carpets, anything! The streets were wide and chokka block full of people - especially on Saturday. As a teenager, ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1968 by Sheila Bax

I was born in Darlington in 1944, and in 1958 I moved to Newton Aycliffe with my mum, dad and two brothers.  We moved into a lovely brand new 3 bedroomed house at 38 Macmillan Rd which was heaven compared to the two ...Read more

A memory of Newton Aycliffe in 1958

George Fletcher was Coachman to Risborough Hall in the late 1800's early 1900's he was married to Eliza who was housemaid to the Hall they lived in the tied cottage just inside the Gates of the Hall. Their daughter Mary was Nursery ...Read more

A memory of Riseborough Hall by Margaret Ann Hill

In 1929 as a six year old boy it was great fun to meeet the miners coming home from the pit and to ask them for a pit piece (a pitpiece is leftovers from the miner's lunch) One day I asked a blackfaced ...Read more

A memory of Harthill in 1920 by Duncan Grierson

My grandfather's family lived in Brighton/Hove near Seven Dials and attended Belgrave Road Congregational Church.  Their surname was WOOD and his forenames were WALTER EDWARD.  He had a brother PERCY and sisters ADA, POLLY ...Read more

A memory of Brighton by Frances Curwood (Nee Wood)

My great-great-grandmother was from the area, Edith Jackson, 1876. I have traced her family back a little bit further. Mary, Joseph, Agnes and Elizabeth. Edith married James Park and had a son Philip and daughters ...Read more

A memory of Colton in 1870 by Steve Bather

I clicked 1860 because that's as far back as the choices went. Perhaps someone who has deep roots in Belfast might recollect a piece of my story. It begins with the birth of Margaret Jeffrey in 1828. ...Read more

A memory of Belfast in 1860 by Margaret Timmerman

I lived in Annathill and Marnoch, my family name was Cairns - they all lived in Marnoch. My dad, Dennis Cairns worked in the pit, the Mullens were my cousins, Uncle Scudger and Auntie Ella, Agnes, Yvonne, Andrew and Allan. ...Read more

A memory of Glenboig by Joanne Mcneish

F-18 From a distance, Tam watched in silence. Like him, the monster had remained in the same place all night, dormant; poised. His eyes hurt from too many fags, the odd tear, and staring ahead into the ...Read more

A memory of Whiteinch in 1962 by Alex Hay

I was a patient at Grosvenor Sanatorium from 1941 - 1943. I was 19 and  recovering from TB with many other patients. Despite our illness they were happy times. We produced and starred in our own concerts. We had ...Read more

A memory of Kennington in 1947 by Chris Northcott