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I live in the Brad, and I was born there. If you live in the Brad you should know my father or mother, Ivor Jones or Nicola Jones. My name is Alisha Jones and I have heard loads of stories about the old times in the Brad and now I wish I lived in the older time, because it was more peaceful.

A memory of Llanbradach in 2013

My name was Susan Penfold and I grew up in a small house on Evelyn Avenue in Newhaven. My mother's mother was one of seventeen children born in Piddinghoe. I used to visit my grandmother's home and aunt Tops, auntie Else and uncle ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1955 by Susan Peppard

I don't know if this picture relates to my family or not! I am a descendant of the Whitlow family of Thewall, in the mid 1700's onwards. There is a large ground stone in St Marys churchyard in Rostherne, about the first ...Read more

A memory of Padgate by Donna Stewart Nee Whitlow

I was born at 4 Back, 34 Colville Road in January 1950. These back houses were very small with a shared outside toilet. We had all manner of creatures that lived there too, massive spiders, blackbats and beetles that ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook in 1950 by Janet Devine

I was born in Wincanton in 1941, at 55 Penn View. I went to Noth Street School and had a wonderful time there. Wish it still was...but that was my young days. I used to watch the horse raising from the back window of the house. I ...Read more

A memory of Wincanton in 1950 by Brian Parsons

I was born in the home of my grandparents John and May (nee Hulse) Yeomans in Mere Road, my mother being the former Kathleen Yeomans. My immediate neighbours on either side were Jack and May Platt and ...Read more

A memory of Weston in 1940 by Roy Pitchford

I was born and brought up in the Avenue and was a Totterdale before marriage. Do you remember Tymeinor School? I went there from 1959 until it closed in 1966. It was a nice place to be, but does anyone remember Miss Ridgeway who ...Read more

A memory of Pontycymer by Susan Poole

My husband was born in Rosemount - his grandfather's house above his grocery shop in the High Street. His family lived in Auchterarder or Blackford; cousins were Eadie's who ran the bakery, and John Gilmour, the coal ...Read more

A memory of Auchterarder in 1946

My name is Andrew Tate, I was born in Thornlaw South at my grandparents house in 1944. I was a twin and my brother was called Alexander [Aleck]. I have quite a few memories of Thornley, I remember watching a cricket match in the Illey ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1949 by Andrew Tate

My grandad, Joseph Woodgate, was the builder that built a lot of early Wannock Avenue's houses and bungalows. He built Wee Cott - one the first houses to be built which had a very large monkey puzzle tree in the garden, until the ...Read more

A memory of Willingdon by Philip Baldock