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My first memory of Chellow Dene reservoir dates back to the mid-sixties. My grandparents Jack and Betty Parkinson lived at Chellow Grange Lodge, just down the road from the reservoir, and when I visited them - my ...Read more

A memory of Bradford in 1965 by Julia Atkinson

I was a member of staff at Rauceby Hospital 1951 - 56 and have many memories of Sleaford at that time. I was a member of the Sleaford weight lifting club which had a work - out room on the first floor of a building in the ...Read more

A memory of Sleaford in 1955 by Clifford Charlesworth

My mum and dad met walking down this road

A memory of Bletchley in 1963 by Catherine Lonergan

My Great Great Aunt Annie Bennington, like her mother before her, carried refreshments and postcards to sell from Milldale down to Reynards Cave. She also fixed the rope from the cave and visitors paid for it's use in helping ...Read more

A memory of Eaton Dovedale by Stephen Mather

I am ordering a copy of this picture to send to my dear childhood friend, Peta Fenner. Peta celebrates her 50th birthday soon and it is quite possible that both her and I are in the photo. We would spend many days of our ...Read more

A memory of Warminster by Christine Mabbett

I visited St Peter's in August 1976 as part of a search for traces of my ancestors, the De Vauxs of Adlington, French Hugenots who first settled from France, in 1630. They became Yeomen farmers on the Leghs Adlington estate ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury in 1976 by James Logan Bell

The parade of shops situated on the right was once the site of a large house called The Rookery, we lived at the Rookery from 1956 -1962. This adjoined the old Procea Products factory where my father worked for many years as a ...Read more

A memory of Irthlingborough in 1956 by Mick Austin

I remember 6th November 1963, The Beatles were playing at the ABC cinema in Northampton and word got around that the famous 'Fab Four' were staying at The Hind Hotel. The place was surrounded by fans hoping to get a closer look ...Read more

A memory of Wellingborough in 1963 by Mick Austin

I started at Eighton Banks Primary School in 1952 aged five, having been moved from the slum clearance of the Teams, Ghd. To be in open countryside after the lung-choking life of the industrial Teams was absolute heaven. The ...Read more

A memory of Eighton Banks in 1952 by Alan Bull

I would just like to add my memories of the Manning family. As a child growing up on the Edgeside estate in Waterfoot I remember Michael Manning from the bakers, he was a lovely man always smiling, and his sister Maria ran the ...Read more

A memory of Waterfoot in 1959 by Jackie Hinton