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Memories

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My Home Town 1947 1969

I was born in Liebenrood Road Maternity Hospital Reading in 1947 and for my first 5 years I lived in Salisbury Road, moving to Whitley until I left in 1969. I remember as a young child having many photographs taken at ...Read more

A memory of Reading by Wendy Fegan

Looking Back

Post house coffee bar (Dilaplos), I lived in there, lunch most dinner times, and back in when the shop closed. I worked in Stylo's, corner of Northgate and Crown Street. Myself and a lad called Frank Uttley(hairdresser) used to get ...Read more

A memory of Darlington in 1965 by Michael Pearson

My Dad

My name is Mike Pearson and my father used to work at the Skating Rink in South Park, more or less full time at one stage in his life. His name was Ernest, or Erne, Pearson. He gave out and took back in the skates and did the music I think. Maybe someone will remember him.

A memory of Darlington in 1962 by Michael Pearson

The Sand Park

We lived in 41 Northern Drive, as kids we would play for hours in the sand park. We would watch women working in the Acme tin works, with the big steel presses banging down, making cake tins, cheese graters, kids' tin buckets. No ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1958 by Elaine Carlin

Playing Football On A Cinder Pitch

My only memory of Whitefield is turning out to play football for Manchester YMCA in a league fixture away from "home" in 1967. It was a reserve team game, we paid our own bus fares to reach the park, I ...Read more

A memory of Whitefield in 1967 by John Howard Norfolk

Coniston Road

We lived on Coniston Road, the Smith family in the Fryin Pan, does anyone remember us? Jean, Barbara, Jimmy and Pat, we lived next door to the Kkennedys and no-one either side of us. Lots of happy memories, my brother Jimmy and I ...Read more

A memory of Stretford by Barbara Politi

War Years

I was born in 1941 and as a child, lived at Park Head Row, Birdsedge. There was little traffic then and we used to play hopscotch on the main road. Around the age of three, whilst swinging on our garden gate, I vividly remember the ...Read more

A memory of Birds Edge in 1944 by Janice Haigh

Charlie The Drake...

How we looked forward to a walk to the Town Hall park to feed the ducks, there was one really old and bedraggled one called "charlie the drake"?? or so my nan said!! Once in the Town Hall grounds, we were allowed to run ahead ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn in 1965

Parents

I Remember the early Twenties. My mothers family, had a woodturning business, pianos, violins, and such good quality instruments, in Bethnal Green, London, She had two brothers, George and Albert, and a sister Sara. Sara was a ...Read more

A memory of Billericay in 1920

Watchfield/Naafi/Aerodrome Notes

This was the NAAFI shop that served the military quarters at Watchfield, which housed the then many miltary and civilian staff of the Royal Military College of Science, and some of the students at the college, ...Read more

A memory of Watchfield by Richard Hodder

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