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My name then was Barrett. I remember living on Walton Street, Holmebridge. My best friend then was Dorothy Hobson, we lived at no 6 and she lived at no 18 I think. I went to the council school where the headmaster was Mr ...Read more

A memory of Sutton-in-Craven in 1960 by Elaine Oconnor

I left school when I was fifteen in 1959 and my two brothers Joe and John and I had joined the Chobham brass band . We sometimes played in Woking Park on Sunday afternoons. when I was about seventeen us Chobham girls used to go to the ...Read more

A memory of Chobham in 1960 by Ann Tedder

I was a summer season driver of these boats during my college holidays in the early 1960s. We operated four boats, Silver Foam, Silver Stream, Silver Crest and my own boat, Silver Dawn, which I believe came from the Norfolk Broads. The ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1960 by Edward Donnelly

A walk with grandfather « Thread Started Yesterday at 2:03pm »    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Walk with Grandfather. I was about 11 years old, one summer's day, ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall in 1930 by John Mellor

I am trying to get some info on Chalfont and wonder if anyone can help me with some 'memories'. I am 64 now and having recently returned to the UK after many years in the USA, and I am trying to find out about my past. ...Read more

A memory of Chalfont St Giles in 1945 by Rob Bartlett

I was also a pupil at St Catherine's; 1954 to 1962 were my years. I remember Mr Thunder, art and geography teacher, Mr Smith, Deputy head; later married someone from the Bristol Old Vic, Mr Sydey, ex Royal Navy Captain but unable to ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury in 1954 by Peter Adams

Once I had started school, I had to pay regular visits to the clinic housed within Victoria House which is sited within the park bearing the same name. This building had been the Town Hall for ...Read more

A memory of Swinton in 1954 by Susan Mottram

Across the A20 from the windmill was the Windmill View Tea Rooms.  Shortly after the Second World War, in the mid 1940s, my aunts would often take me to the Tea Rooms and while they sipped tea I played with my friends ...Read more

A memory of West Kingsdown by John Osborne

I spent much of my childhood and teenage years staying at my Aunt and Uncle's house in Ryde Road as my gran lived there too and latterly my mum until 2002. The houses have not changed much over the years but there are a lot more cars ...Read more

A memory of Seaview in 1965 by Paula Jones

I have a host of memories of MPSP. The earliest is from the 1950s when I used to play on the fountain -- seen in the foreground -- with my cousins (Towers) who would visit from Cleveleys. It was also the first place ...Read more

A memory of Nelson in 1967 by Charles Duerden