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Owen Hughes Roberts was my grandfather, who came to Rhostyllen approx 1900 from Bethesda when the Penrhyn slate quarry workers went on strike for better conditions and a wage rise. He took lodgings in Church Street and a job ...Read more

A memory of Rhostyllen in 1947 by Geraint Lloyd

They certainly were the days - so much better than the present. I spent the first 22 years of my life in Tongham from birth in 1953 until moving away in 1976. I remember the hop fields, the infant and junior schools and the ...Read more

A memory of Tongham in 1953 by Mike Chapple

Yay! I've found my brother (Mike Targett) here! Yep, I'm Mike's brother and one of the Shorwell's Vicars' sons 1972-1980. Growing up in Shorwell was certainly idillic, carefree, and we were very spoilt in ...Read more

A memory of Shorwell in 1870 by Lucian (Luke) Targett

Hello ....I am trying to find Tony and Terry Smith; they are twins one dark, one fair, they had a sister as well. They lived in the Kilburn area in 60's ... Tony was perhaps a bit of a rascal who loved ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by Joanne Thompson

My grandad was George Pears, the local dentist from Laburnum House Bridge Street (now part of the Bridge Hotel). My dad was Bill Pears who lived there with his dad George, his mum Evelyn (nee Abbott) and his ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Doyle in 1950 by Jackie Robinson (Nee Pears)

I was born at 28 Oak Street Garden City, in June 1947. My father was a miner in the Brit and in later years so was my brother Brian, my father was John David Evans but better known as "Dai Queenie". After 28 years of ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1947 by Beverley Evans

Does anyone remember Greengate & Irwell, Irwell Works, off Ordsall Lane? From 1957 to 1962 I worked there as one of the three telephone operaters. I have very happy ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1957 by Jean Rowland

I was born in Brighton Road, number 130, in 1930, it is now known as Jubilee Road. I went to St Peter & Paul School 1935 -1944. Itwas agreat place to live in, we used to spend days in Sniggery Woods & go collecting golf-balls on ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1930 by Alfred Moran

I was born in Fernham in 1936 in the thatched cottage on the green (now known as Corner Cottage, opposite the church), as was my mother before me. The house was my grandmother's, Mrs Mary Brown. My grandfather Harry ...Read more

A memory of Fernham in 1940 by Terry White

It was around this time the old Hippodrome closed. Well everyone thought it had, us children knew better, we could just open the loading door slightly and squeeze in, many costumes had been left, but we never tried them on, just ...Read more

A memory of Harpurhey in 1956