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Reading the memories prompts me to contribute to the nostalgia - My grandfather "Bob Allan" was the Postmaster and his parents before him. My aunt took over from him in the late 1960s and in all the ...Read more

A memory of Gainford in 1963 by Robert Allan

I am researching my Sims-Hilditch family tree. Does anyone remember Edwin Sims Hilditch at Castleigh, Haslington around 1931? And at Harmel House, High Street, Haslington around 1946? Are ...Read more

A memory of Haslington in 1946 by Anthea Beszant

Hi, I can see that Janet Lee has posted some info, I am wondering if you are the older sister of Patricia Lee or perhaps another relative. Their family emigrated to Australia on the Canberra some time in the early 1960s. I was ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by Debra Richards

I spent the academic year 1987/88 in Kent training to become a Careers Adviser on a post-graduate course run by Kent College for the Careers Service. During my course I had to visit businesses, ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1987 by John Howard Norfolk

I remember Swan Pool Park from the 1950s-60s. It is in South Road, Stourbridge. There used to be paddle-boats available to hire in the early 1960s, and there were lovely weeping-willow trees - even, perhaps, swans. The pool was ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge by Alison Wright

I was in REME stationed in Peel Green and on Wednesday afternoons we were taken to see different factories etc, and one Wednesday we toured by boat all around the docks at Manchester and the commentator told us ...Read more

A memory of Manchester Ship Canal in 1948 by Trevor Williams

My grandfather (William Bryant) built a houseboat and moored it in Percuil Creek where he, my grandmother and my mother would spend their summers in the 40s. My grandfather and his wife Dorothy were both born in Falmouth ...Read more

A memory of Percuil in 1946 by Elizabeth Seward (Bryant)

Hi All. Den from St. Helens. Summer in Anglesey, first car, first boat, first meetings with young ladies of Llangefni. It could have been 1969, I'm not sure now, a group of mates from St Helens set out on ...Read more

A memory of Red Wharf Bay in 1970 by Denis A. Mee

Born & bred 'Tarpotion'. The shops? The best I can remember, starting (1) Junc/Rushbottom Lane/London Rd - NAT, parcels & goods service (later Essex Carriers, Atlas Express), now the bank, cycle shop. (2) - Pie ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1950 by Horace Rogers

My children, Molly, Libby, and George loved taking turns with me rowing across from the shallower of the two beaches the short distance across the calm bay to the lifeboat station which as we got closer loomed large like ...Read more

A memory of Mother Ivey's in 2006 by Robin Greaves