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I had many memorable times in Diss. When living in Cambridge, I often, unexpectedly for him, dropped in to see Mr Robert Stubbs who had been living by himself and his toy poodle since his wife's passing many years ...Read more

A memory of Diss by Richard Strange

My memories of the home are all very positive. I would have been 6 yrs old, and recovering from pneumonia. Coming from the Children's Hospital in Derby, the drive over was memorable. A big black car, very ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Patrick Knight

So many wonderful memories of the "old challaborough" my parents owned a caravan there so we were lucky enough to spend weekends and holidays there. I loved the dolphin cafe on the sea front and then there was another ...Read more

A memory of Challaborough by Tracy Brown

My mother was brought up by a lady called Alice who married Joshua Roberts in Cefn Mawr and relocated to Middleton in Lancashire. Alice had a lot of relations still living there including a cousin Bertha who married Idris ...Read more

A memory of Cefn Mawr by Glenys Alice Ellis

I remember i was about 10 when a works bus hit somebody's house wall and knocked it on top of me , my mam and dad was working and my eldest sister was told not to answer the door to anyone , the workmen on the bus rescued me and I ...Read more

A memory of Aberbargoed by Louise Cummings

I remember the Odean down on the high street at the bottom of Mellison Rd. We went every Saturday morning and were amazed by the organ that would rise from beneath the screen as we sang “the little white bull” and other Kidde songs while we waited for the cartoons and other features to start.

A memory of Tooting by Neil Anderson

My father, Dr. Alexander Brodie Davie, was a GP in the Cranford/Hounslow area from 1938 until his death in 1978. He had a surgery at 723 Bath Road Cranford and then in Hounslow. My mother was a nurse at Hounslow Hospital where she met dad ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Alastair Davie

I was born in 1944 in F Ayres and Sons builders shop/house in High Street, Colnbrook opposite Kate and Dick Raynors house called The Cedars. My mother was Kathleen Gale (nee Ayres) youngest child of Francis and Sarah Ayres ...Read more

A memory of Colnbrook by Richard Gale

30 years just passed but it still seems present, the time I spent in Witheridge since 24 December to 1st January when I got back to London and then flied back to Italy. I spent splendid days by a family of ...Read more

A memory of Witheridge in 1978 by Guido Caramia

I was a teenager in the 1950s, worked at Consett Iron Company. We were teddy boys, had all the gear, suits, shoes ... Our nights out were Co-op dance Thursday nights. Them that had girlfriends always met them inside. Friday was ...Read more

A memory of Consett in 1950 by Alan Sanderson