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Happy Youth

I first found out about when I moved to Great Horton in Bradford about 1952. I met a boy called Philip Tempest who lived in a house near by, we became life long friends. His parent took me on holiday with them to a cottage they owned ...Read more

A memory of Nesfield in 1950 by Donald Rumbold

Oh For Thing Past.

I was born in 1941 in St Augustine's Rd at the top of Chalk Pit Ave. The memory I have are, the Bull Inn at the corner of Sandy Lane next to Nashes Paper Mills. Ridge ways ? the all one shop, {things past}. Doing paper ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1950 by David Stallwood

1950 61 A Child's Memory Of Kirkconnel

On 11th October 1950 I was born in the flat above Drife's butchers shop in Kirkconnel. My dad, Tommy, worked in the shop with Cameron Purvis and struggled to feed a family of three on the butcher's wage and ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm by Jim Smith

Return To Aveley With Glenda

Hello Glenda, my dear. I remember that name - Lighten. Where is Eastern Ave? Is it the road where Trevor Johnson and David Warren lived? Michael Cox there too. Remember him? Now I remember our dads - good mates - ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1940 by Colin Newberry

Emigration From Tyldesley

Hi I live in Auckland New Zealand, but my grandparents came here from Tyldesley in 1922 with their three young children. Both my grandfather Fred Needham, born in 1889, and my grandmother Charlotte Dutton, born in ...Read more

A memory of Tyldesley in 1920 by Sharyn Arthur

Growing Up

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

Fullerton Road

I was born and lived for 12 years of my life in Fullerton Road, I lived with my parents sister and brother in my nan's house number 19. My uncle and aunt lived at the bottom of the cul-de-sac, I had an aunt in Stretton Road ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe by Christine Weeks/ Nee Cox

The N.H.S. Early Years To Retirement

The Transport Department at Southmead Hospital when I joined them consisted of an officer, foreman, and four porter drivers, with two buses, three vans, and two cars. We were responsible for ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1960 by Arthur Cottrell

Chute School And Village

I lived in Chute from 1952 until 1970. Chute School from 1955 until 1962. I went to Chute of E School at the age of 4. I remember it well. A good school with strict teachers. Miss Haggar was Headmistress and Mrs Cane ...Read more

A memory of Upper Wield in 1955 by Laurel Humphreys

My Grandparents

My memory does not relate to one specific year but to many. My grandparents lived in Hall Street, they ran a haulage company, S E Foster, and wedding car firm, the only one in the village at that time. Their names were Edwin ...Read more

A memory of Wednesfield by Fay Cooper

Captions

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Caption For Abbots Ripton, The Flower Gardens C1955

The parish of Abbots Ripton lies a few miles north of Huntingdon.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, The Bay Hotel 1927

The fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay lies just a few miles to the south of Whitby.

Caption For Bromsgrove, Aerial View C1955

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.

Caption For Bromsgrove, Aerial View C1955

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.

Caption For Robin Hoods Bay, The Bay Hotel 1927

The fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay lies just a few miles to the south of Whitby.

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Caption For Gatehouse Of Fleet, High Street C1955

Gatehouse of Fleet is situated near the mouth of the Water of Fleet, a few miles north-west of Kirkcudbright.

Caption For Toddington, The Church C1965

Dedicated to St George of England (note the full title), the parish church at Toddington is so similar to its counterpart in Houghton Regis, just a few miles away, that it should be suggested that only

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Caption For Eriswell, C1960

Many of the houses here have the initials NEC, standing for the New England Company that once owned the parish.

Caption For Old Sarum, C1955

Six hundred years later, another invading army made Old Sarum its defensive home: the inner fortifications now contained a Norman castle and a cathedral.

Caption For Birkenhead, Arrowe Park 1967

Arrowe Park is quite a few miles from the centre of Birkenhead.

Caption For Fairford, The Square C1945

Fairford is situated on the River Coln a few miles from the Thames in Gloucestershire.

Caption For Low Row, The Punch Bowl Hotel 1924

The Old Gang Mine, one of the oldest workings, is a few miles from here, and would have brought the miners to the warmth of the Punch Bowl Inn, which was built in 1638.

Caption For Richmond, The Castle And The Bridge 1893

At that time, the border between those firmly under Norman control and those still willing to fight lay just a few miles to the north.

Caption For Richmond, The Castle And The Bridge 1893

At that time, the border between an England firmly under Norman control and those still willing to fight lay just a few miles to the north.

Caption For Tirley, The School C1950

Tirley lies a few miles downstream from Tewkesbury on the Severn.

Caption For Richmond, The Castle And The Bridge 1893

At that time, the border between those firmly under Norman control and those still willing to fight lay just a few miles to the north.

Caption For Fairford, The Square C1945

Fairford is situated on the River Coln a few miles from the Thames in Gloucestershire.

Caption For Nelson, Manchester Road 1958

There was another Marsden just a few miles up the line in Yorkshire, so a railway official gave the station the name of the inn that was next to the station.

Caption For Belfast, Canal Wharf And Queen's Bridge 1897

The River Lagan flows within a few miles of the huge Lough Neagh, which is bordered by four Ulster counties; a lot of work was done to make the river able to take barges, with a link to the lough.

Caption For Douglas, Tower Of Refuge 1893

A knight of St John of Jerusalem, soldier, author and philanthropist, he was also a suspected bigamist, who settled in the Isle of Man in order to put a few miles and a little water between himself