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Hello Ted I was just looking through the old photos of Warminster when I saw your comment. You may well have found out by now that the Snooty Fox was indeed the Globe public house at the junction of Fore Street and Chapel ...Read more

A memory of Warminster in 1962 by Julian Butler

I was born at 19 Broomgrove Gardens, Edgware in 1933. Although the address was Edgware the closest railway station was Burnt Oak. I went to Staglane Primary school and the Headmistress' name was Miss Palmer. ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1946 by Cliff Charlton

Born at Station Rd, close to Bridge School, a small sweet shop called Ecclestones was at the foot of the bridge. We would walk over the bridge, mum to shop in the Popular Stores (Coop I think), I recall ...Read more

A memory of Wealdstone

I was born in Hednesford in 1948; the house behind the Valeting Service shop, (63 Market Street), close to the Lucas Lighting factory, (now the Lightworks business premises). Coincidentally I later worked for Lucas Lighting ...Read more

A memory of Hednesford in 1948 by David Birt

My name is Mike Wilson, I was born in 1952 and lived in Lochore in the prefabs, and then later on Kenilworth Terrace. I moved to the states in 1967. I have great childhood memories of those days. My friends were George Whiskers and ...Read more

A memory of Lochore in 1960 by Mike Wilson

My great great grandfather, Walter Churchill, worked at the Brewery for years looking after the dray horses. I do not know whether he actually went out with the horses to deliver the beer. He lived at 45 Gigant Street in ...Read more

A memory of Salisbury by Linda Robinson

My father is from Horden, born 1928 November, had two step brothers. Johnson was my fathers name, Hill was his brother's, Singer he was and Naisbett was the other brother's name - all miners. My grandmother was a Johnson, my ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1920 by Dawn Middleton

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

The shop with the blind outside was built by my grandparents in 1932, they already had two shops in Milford High Street, opposite the Post Office, a confectioners and a grocery shop. Grandpa and Grandma decided to expand ...Read more

A memory of Milford on Sea by Janet Reed Nee Knight

I was the born at the Green in Wallsend. I used to live in Holy Cross and I remember the burn, the old cemetery at the top of our road and shopping on Wallsend High Street. My dad was a supervisor at the Rising Sun Pit. We also ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by Lesley Kovacs