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my dad fred hunter was the 1st cemetery suprintendant of horden cemetery ,my mam eva was a sherburn hill lass until marrying my dad and moving into the cemetery house ,I can recall my mam saying as we looked out of the house window ...Read more

A memory of Horden by benoni65

In the late 1940s as a child I used to play in the park along side the hospital and remember very young cutting my foot in the paddling pool. A child who was playing with me ( we had no ...Read more

A memory of Beckenham by Pat Roberts

The Carter family lived in Ogden Street the whole of the fifties. Went to Duke Street (Gaythorn Primary) where I was one of the ones who would on a regular basis be waiting outside Jacks office for whatever he had to ...Read more

A memory of Hulme by george.a.carter

I am the granddaughter to a man who used to live in Burnt Oak, and was born in 1935. He was unfortunately born out of wedlock and his mother never told him the name of his father. Due to some research by myself ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak

I moved from St Pancras to Etherley Road Tottenham with my parents as a very young baby. I was born in 1941 and lived in Tottenham until my late teens. I went to Belmont school from 1953 to 1956 during which time I had a class ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham by xox99bb34zz

From Roger Peart. DD11 2NX In the summer of 1973/74 a section of Sappers from 45 Commando in Arbroath built a bridge in the area of the Oykel Bridge hotel.Has anybody any memories of this. And does the ...Read more

A memory of Strath Oykel by roger.peart

I spent many very happy holidays at my uncle's house, number 8 Beach Street directly behind the pub in the photo. It was an old house with very steep stairs with large ropes instead of handrails. It had no electricity although gas was ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1954 by Anthony Lock

I lived at 106 bedwellty rd until I joined the Royal Air Force in 1952,I often went on the milk round, and even filled the milk bottles in the dairy at the back of the house.It was only milk floats in my day with the horses ...Read more

A memory of Cefn in 1949 by Bernard Reeves

Many of the paternal side of my family lived in Cornsay Colliery - in fact my father was born there in 1913. My great grandfather, Robert Norwood, worked at the Ferens and Love colliery there where he was ...Read more

A memory of Cornsay Colliery by ranorwood

For some time I had been thinking it would be nice to own a boat, and with this in mind I would keep my eyes open. It was only then I discovered boats for sale were very few and far between. You might think in a place like ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth by Ian Giles