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I think it was 1964 that the Town Hall burnt down. I remember it well. I was about 11 at the time. I do remember that at the back of the TH, was the Police Station. My brother and I got in some "trouble" and the two of us ...Read more

A memory of Hove in 1964 by Alan Ogilvie

Yes, I 'grew up' on Fish Strand and still use it to this day. My father kept various boats off the quay and we always had a dinghy moored there, and we still do, my father is now in his 90s and I have 2 grandaughters. I ...Read more

A memory of Falmouth in 1958 by Steve Turvey

If you head down Lampits Hill and carry on past Giffords Cross road on your right, you then enter Church Road, the next road on your left is Fobbing Road. Opposite this junction is a building called the Old School House, this was the ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1960 by Dave Coombes

I remember playing on 'The Patch' at the top end of Filey Road. It was mostly long grass in those days, except where the lads had trod it down in the middle playing footie. Every year all us kids would collect wood for a huge fire on ...Read more

A memory of Fordhouses in 1965 by Julie Rowley

46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1943 by Graham Davis

Now living in Australia - Arriving back to visit relatives, a previous life time of my walk about ways seems so dream-like. Living at The Greig Farm above the Wier Farm (The Wier which had been in my family forever) was the best ...Read more

A memory of Ewyas Harold in 1965 by Sally Bell

I was evacuated from London to Oxford with Burlington School on 1st September 1939. At first we had our lessons in the old Milham Ford School premises but after a few weeks transferred to the new school in Marston where we shared the ...Read more

A memory of Oxford in 1940 by Sheila Kent

Yr Gof Cynwyl. (I’m no verra guid at the Welsh I doubt) It would be around 1960 that I used to get jobs done at the Cynwyl blacksmith shop. Mr Jones was a good man although crabby at haymaking time. I went there ...Read more

A memory of Cynwyl Elfed in 1960 by Alun Bush

I cannot remember how old I was when we started going to the south coast of England for a Sunday trip, but it was when my father sold his Norton motorbike and bought a Golden Flash with a sidecar ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton in 1955 by Carole Baldwin

In the 1960s, in my late teens, Bromley was the hub of my universe. I played in a local group - Paul and the Playboys (later 'The Machine' - I had a 1958 Ford Popular with 'The Machine' ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1964 by Peter Hobden