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Playing Pirates

My brothers and I were brought up in Warminster from 1961 to 1971. We would spend such great times in the park. We would get half a crown pocket money on a Saturday and it was off to the Regal Cinema for the Saturday Matinee to ...Read more

A memory of Warminster in 1965 by Philip Franklin

Nelson House Restaurant, Broad Street, Deal, Kent

Where Deal Library stands today was the site of the 'Nelson House Restaurant', which was owned and ran by my father, Frederick William Ford; around the corner in Middle Street, was 'Lady Hamilton's ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1950 by John Ford

Shops, Red Squirrels And Bad Men

I remember that first row of shops quite well. There was a greengrocer on the right which I was sent to sometimes to buy 3lbs of King Edward's (why did he have potatoes?) My brother and I argued about carrying the ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Jon Holland

Boat On Canal At Mill Bridge

The boat was an old mine sweeper that the owner or manager of the corn mill had navigated from Liverpool on the canal. The owners name was a Mr. Bramall. My pals and I used to play on the boat and row its dingy. The ...Read more

A memory of Skipton by Malcolm Mounteer

My Family

The Mansbridges were my great grandparents. My grandmother, Elizabeth M Card is buried in the church yard and lived for many many years in the thatched cottage just outside the church gates. I spent many holidays there as I only lived ...Read more

A memory of Combrook by Philip Card

Some Memories Of Horden From 1949 To 1982.

Although I was born in Easington, my parents and I moved to Horden to live in the 'prefabs' at the Crossroads when I was four. I thought that the prefabs were great houses and was sad when my parents ...Read more

A memory of Horden by Carol Donald

Early Teens In Drongan

On tv at last, school bus, with a clippie, snowed in, couldn't get from Drongan to Cumnock Academy, should have been a good day off, but had to walk through loads of snow from Coalhall to Drongan, no thermals in those days! Old ...Read more

A memory of Ayr in 1964 by Joyce Lomas

Early Years Late 40s 60s

I remember so much of my childhood in Brentford, mostly from the early 50s to mid-60s. Alfie Winkworth mentions the Pottery Arms pub where the landlords were sisters Wyn and Cissie and the Harry Matheson he mentions was ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by A Macken

A War Time Memory

As I was approaching my 7th birthday at the end of November 1943, my mother (Nan Mackie) was taken from our row house home at 34, Briar Edge, Forest Hall, nr Newcastle-on-Tyne to Dilston Hall, Corbridge, where she gave birth to ...Read more

A memory of Corbridge in 1943 by Gwenneth Steward

Thrapston And Stoke Doyle Memories

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)

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