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Lived on the High Street at the Post Office. Then moved in 1955(?) to new Post Office on Stanley Road, almost opposite the old Garndiffaith Junior School (now Community Centre). Well recall getting a 'basin' haircut at Dai ...Read more

A memory of Garndiffaith in 1957 by Robert Bath

I lived in Horton from the age of two when we moved from Chard. We lived in a cottage just below the village hall opposite the Police house. My dad was Joe Sparks, and my mum was Joyce, I had an elder ...Read more

A memory of Horton in 1955 by Pat Sparks

Can remember most of the shops in this part of the street. My father worked in the shop beyond the Wimpy Bar - Lascelles fishmongers. Fred the butchers, Lanes ice-cream, the Hot Oven, Hall & Warner, the ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1955 by Pam Odam

My name is Lynda Mawdsley, I was born in 1949 at 94 Oxford Street, Old Trafford. I am 1 of 7 siblings, my father's name was Stanley and my mother's name was Irene. I can still remember what the prefab looked like and some of the ...Read more

A memory of Old Langho in 1949 by Lynda Mawdsley

The second modern day Whittlebury School reunion has been arranged for Saturday 5th October 2013 at 12:00 hrs for 13:00 hrs at “The Atrium” which is part of the Whittlebury Park golf club (the same place as ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1963 by Tony Wood

I was born at 1 Donaldson Road. My dad was John White a marvelous singer, he worked at Haigs Distillery, Cameron Bridge for 46 years. My elder brother was Ron White. I played in the Methillhill Pipe Band in 1946, with Pipe Major ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1930 by Doog White

I was born at 7 Osborne Street, 1948 and grew up there. I got married at 21 and moved to Tarvin Drive for several years before moving on to Hull and then Little Brington, Northamptonshire where I still am. I remember all ...Read more

A memory of Bredbury by Alan Atkinson

It was a hot summers day and dad let me borrow his bicycle. It was a bit on the large side for me (I was 10 years old) he had taken the saddle from off the saddle-bar and had tied it to the crossbar. I rode the bike along the canal ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth in 1960 by Roland Mitchell

As a small child I remember going to Wilkies fish shop in Western Road and from the counter you could see into their living room at the back. They had a huge fish tank filled with bright coloured fish and I felt very priviledged ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Trudy Simpson

The formative years of my early childhood were spent at No. 39 Bondgate, Pontefract, which was one of a block of four small two-up, two-down houses situated immediately adjacent to the ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract in 1930 by Graham Atkinson