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The newly named Pioneer Christian Youth Hostel, (open to all faiths) was situated 197O in the flat (apartment) accommodation basement of the old Methodist Church. The hostel was served by ...Read more

A memory of Sinderhope by David Armstrong

Ottawa has been my Home Base for nearly fifty years, having lost my faith of a future in UK during a troublesome strike by miners which was crippling the UK economy - no doubt the miners thought that the closure of ...Read more

A memory of Ottawa by Edward Williams

I lived at Hithermoor Farm,Stanwell Moor from birth in 1951 until 1973.We farmed part of the Reservoirs and a large chunk of Greenhams Gravel Pit land. Many happy memories.Started school at Shortwood,Staines in 1956 with Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Stanwell by John Hutchings

My name is Drew Ramsay and my father retired from Calcutta India back home to Dundee in 1963 when I was 13 years old. He leased Tombuie Cottage for 5 years as a holiday home which came complete with a little over ...Read more

A memory of Tombuie Cottage by Drew Ramsay

I remember being with my family at Craigendoran station to get on the Jeannie Deans steamer. My father worked at that station and waved as we left the pier. Good times. It is always good to remember the past but I don't think it was all ...Read more

A memory of Helensburgh

This picture makes me feel warm inside. When I was a young boy, 9-11 yrs old, I would fish from the wooden fence in the picture to the lower right, casting under the Newbury Bridge. Hoping to catch a large barbil or Samson the ...Read more

A memory of Newbury by Paul Frith

The fields along Hospital Lane were for St Michael’s School in Leeds, next to the boys Grammar School - the boys had to get the bus up and change in the old stables! Allan Bennetts family lived in the corner ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge

I was very young to have seen the gardens in Middleton but they were well loved and a great place place to take a quiet moment watching the fountain. No one seems to know where the fountain is but rumour has it, it was dumped in the ...Read more

A memory of Middleton by Anne Dodds

From 1964 I occasionally took the No. 691 bus from Ilford to Barkingside to shop. I used to buy my toddler son a Matchbox car from a toy shop. He didn't talk a lot but within a couple of years he could name most of the cars on the road ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside by Carol O'shea

Yes, I have been to Southport! Sadly I saw this lovely town once only when I went there to see Southport FC play at their home ground in Haig Avenue. The occasion was a Monday night in March 1969 and the ...Read more

A memory of Southport in 1969 by John Howard Norfolk