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I lived at the wayside garage on the A6 from 1952-1962. I used to cycle to the village (Meadows) past Escomes Farm opposite Holmemere Hall and up Dykes Hill, passing Alan Clarks farm where I used to help ...Read more

A memory of Yealand Conyers in 1957 by Heather Leach

I grew up in the house next to the Crown and Sceptre, I recall sitting on the wall outside the house counting the cars go by. I went to school in Rockbeare and remember the long walk to school. My teachers were Miss Wilsdon ...Read more

A memory of Rockbeare in 1955 by Dianne Westbrook Nee Short

I actually lived in West Barsham and attended the primary School in East Barsham from September 1930 to July 1937. The walk to the village school took me past the Manor House, which always looked dark and forbidding, ...Read more

A memory of East Barsham in 1930 by Louis Norman Wells

The Old Market House in the 50's was a lively and central part of the daily shopping scene. There was a butcher (Dewhursts i think), a baker, several greengrocers, a fruiterer, a flower stand, an ironmongery stand and a ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1955 by Philip Cousins

Adams had a poultry farm in Duck Pond Lane (left hand side of Sainsburys). They lived in a big grand house at the bottom of Woodchurch Lane; it fronted onto Prenton Road West. There was a plaque on the outhouse ...Read more

A memory of Oxton in 1954 by David Wharton

My Gt Grandfather John Godfrey had Park House, Carlton, built for his family in the early 1900's. The house was on the corner of Main Street and Burton Road. After John died in 1921 my Gt Grandmother lived there ...Read more

A memory of Carlton by Angela Keyworth

l was born in the Rookery, Ebbw Vale, lived in 19 Second Row, Newtown until l was eight. We then moved to a new housing estate called Garnlydan where I grew up before we moved to Newport. I worked at LLanwern steel works - and retired ...Read more

A memory of Ebbw Vale in 1957 by Peter Mcging

I remember going down to my Uncle Adam's who stayed at the house near the saw mill bridge, and walking along the river path to what they called the secret works. it was a place where they made stuff for the war effort and was in ...Read more

A memory of Kilkerran in 1951 by Andrew Plain

Looking for the Challoner family born in Armoury house top road summerhill and also the Moss area.

A memory of Gwersyllt by Joyce Davis

I was born in Seaton next to the Geoge and Dragon in 1949. I still live in the village, in a house we moved into in 1952. Seaton gave me a great childhood. In the 50's it was very much an agricultural village ...Read more

A memory of Seaton in 1956 by John Mayfield