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For many years morris sides danced in the road in front of the pub garden of the Red Lion. This has been a popular venue to celebrate May Day morning at dawn. Whitethorn Morris and their ...Read more

A memory of Coleshill in 2004 by John Howard Norfolk

For very many years the dancers and musicians of Whitethorn Morris have performed in the streets at Wimborne Folk Festival each June and have been fascinated to see another team known ...Read more

A memory of Winterborne Kingston in 2007 by John Howard Norfolk

In 1949 when I was six, my two cousins and I were sent to Burnham Beeches for a holiday. We lived in the East End of London. We loved it there, it was summer and very hot, to play all day in the fields was such freedom. The ...Read more

A memory of Burnham in 1949 by Kathleen Rice

I was born in 1950 and attended the convent as a boarder, leaving in 1958. I travelled by train with my mother from New Street station Birmingham to Paddington station London where the convent nuns met up with us and the ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1958 by Alan Yardley

Just at the top of the photo, and out of camera, was a pub called the Railway Tavern. Locally it was known as the 'Top House'. Around the back lurked a bookies runner, and I was sent by my grandad on many occasions, to 'put a ...Read more

A memory of Eccles by David Tootles.Thetaxi@Yahoo.Co.Uk

This would be about 1950. Radio was the in thing, me Nanna and Granda had one that was powered by an accumulator, this was a square glass jar with two elements inside connected to two terminals on the top which would fit and connect ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1950 by Jimmy Burrows

At the age of just under 18 I used to enjoy a drink with friends in the bar of the 'Dee View'. My father also enjoyed a drink in the snug; whenever he came in, through the side door, I would be warned "Your dad has arrived!" and would ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1942

I remember before the houses on Seabright Way, Whittal Close and the newer part of Greenway Avenue were built, we used the field as a general play area, all the kids from Arden Way, Chapel Road and Church Road did. We used to have ...Read more

A memory of Alveley

We actually lived in Northolt Grange but our cousins, the Barltetts, lived in Stanhope Road, Greenford (does anyone remember them?). I worked from the age of 8 or 9 for Ron and Stella Valente who ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by John Nicholls

It was a Trust House Hotel when I worked there in the bar for a few years up to 1964. By that time it was very much larger than the photograph shows. The manager was Mr. Trew. It never made any money due to the short season. ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale in 1962 by George Mitchell