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Heronhill , off Weensland Road was the mansion house where there was a boarding school for about fifty four girls and a few very small boys. The school was called St Helen's, between 1945 and 1949. The headmistress and owner was Miss Jean ...Read more

A memory of Hawick

Like the other contributer, in about 1967 I too went to Princes Road County Primary, Mr Carr was the Headmaster and he caned many a boy! The playground opened out into Knighton Woods and we played "war", it ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Jonathan Cox

I lived in Hampstead from 1937-1941. Just before the war started my cousins and I used to play for many hours on Hampstead Heath One of our favourite spots was the Viaduct and Pond. We were very wary of entering the arch on the far ...Read more

A memory of Hampstead by Don Hudson

My memories of Thornton Heath are not as a local resident, but as the girlfriend of someone who lived in the area and with whom I went out for 6 years from the age of 15 to 21, eventually becoming engaged ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath by Marion Coward

Netherthong Industrial & Equitable Co-operative Society Some of the first co-operatives were set up in the Holmfirth area well before the Rochdale Pioneers. In 1827 spinners, twisters, weavers, ...Read more

A memory of Netherthong by Michael Meitiner

The house on the right was and still is (2009) a butchers shop. My dad Mark Doel bought it from the Ward Lewises who had bought from Sid Howlett in the 1970s. I can remember there used to be stalls and ...Read more

A memory of Buntingford by Lindsay Doel

My mother and I evacuated from Glasgow to Auldgirth in 1941 to escape the bombing immediately following the Clydebank bombing. We stayed with a wonderful family called Collins who were friends of my father's ...Read more

A memory of Auldgirth

In about 1960 this spot was a hang out for the local teenagers - myself being one! Out of the pic and to the left was a youth centre run by the church (the local vicar lived next door to that) and after doing whatever we did there ...Read more

A memory of Cleadon by Stewart Wood

This most likely stood in my family's New Pond Brickyard. The family firm was W Brown and Sons. The New Pond yard existed from 1813 to about 1938.

A memory of Earlswood by Richard Brown

My early years were spent in Monken Hadley. When I see photos of Hadley I can say I have been there. There's a little row of cottages oppisite Hadley Church, St Mary's, and my aunty Molly Ratling (nee Longland) ...Read more

A memory of Hadley by Roland Wood