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I worked at the Bakery for about two years, this was my second job after leaving school, which was the Bishop Ramsey Church of England School which opened in 1980 taking over Ruislip Manor and St Martins C.O.E school that was in West ...Read more

A memory of Ickenham in 1981 by Wayne Barrett

Although I've spent most of my life living in Bolton-upon-Dearne I was born in Goldthorpe at number 9 Orchard Street. I had 3 brothers and 1 sister. I remember Little Harold (as they called him) who had a stall on the ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe by Terry Askew

I was born on August 2 in 1949 at Croxdale Hall Durham. It was seconded after the war from the Salvin family presumably because of shortages of materity hospitals. My mother was Elda Stonebank, one of 13 family and well known in the ...Read more

A memory of Burnhope in 1949 by John Coates Farrow

Hi lads, just putting this on the site as I am hoping to contact as many of the boys who were at Mobberley with me. I may be remembered for my singing in the church choir and sometimes I was asked to sing before the ...Read more

A memory of Mobberley in 1955 by Peter Blythin

My granddad used to stay here and mum said it was a lovely Victorian hotel, very comfortable, it became a Trust House hotel, I believe but was pulled down in the early sixties. Amazing to think all the traffic to the south ...Read more

A memory of Horsham in 1955 by John Skinner

My Great Grandmother, Ana Louisa Clayton, can be found on the 1881 census working in the Old Tree. The old cinema is hidden on the right. I watched "whistle down the wind" there with my sister which must have been not long before it ...Read more

A memory of Kippax in 1962

I lived at Long Green where my father was a shepherd at St Lawrence Farm. I went to Bumbles Green Primary School where Mr & Mrs Hills lived in the schoolhouse. At that time Mr Brent had the grocery shop, the ...Read more

A memory of Nazeing in 1960 by Alexander Hutcheon

The hairdressers was on the same road as the pub, it was a local girl who ran it. There was a butchers and some more shops and you could get to the big hilly across the road. As kids we where told not to go ...Read more

A memory of Bradley

I spent 2 years there 1956 to 1959. I was sent to Delamere to help recover after the war - bad nerves and from other circumstances. I was always in trouble as I did not want to be there. I ran away twice - I was found ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1956 by Dan Josephson

My parents, John S M Jones and Eileen Jones (née Kelly), ran Nearwell Hostel from 1951 to 56. My father taught at the Tech. I was born in Oswestry in 1950 and attended St.Giles School near the Column while we lived in ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1953 by Sarah Emch Jones