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I used to live a few doors from auld Jimmy Sample and his wife Carrie, his son John was married to June and they lived in Francis Terrace. They had their rag and bone yard down the Winnin, anyway I would spend summer nights, weekends ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1955 by Jimmy Burrows

In 1978 my sister-in-law Diane Plaskitt worked in the kitchens at the pub. During her time there along with another member of staff they came across 'the Blacksmith Ghost'. They caught site of an image of a man ...Read more

A memory of Rothwell in 1978 by Lisa Plaskitt

I grew up in Monifieth and for the first 17 years of my life this is where I called home. I remember attending Invertay Annexe for 2 years. As it turned out both my sister and I were taught by the same teachers that had taught my ...Read more

A memory of Monifieth in 1968 by Gail Pitcaithly

It was about 1956. John Sample had started to change with the times and bought himself a pick up truck, him, 'Auld Jimmy' and me went to the horse sales at Gateshead just over the bridge, and I cannot for the life of me remember if it ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1956 by Jimmy Burrows

I was born in No 5 The Coastguards at Sizewell in 1950 (before they put another house on the end). My parents were teachers and I had two sisters and a brother. I played all along the front and in the big sand pit in front of ...Read more

A memory of Sizewell in 1950 by Charles Walker

I have researched my family history and discovered that , my great 4 x grandfather was living in this area My ancestors were also born around the Sorbie area, and I have gone back to the 1841 census for Ardwell, where I found Barnard ...Read more

A memory of Ardwell by Linda Kiltie Stewart

My father, Dudley David Wright, who lived in a poor section of Grimsby with his foster mother Nellie Fields and was born in 1924 told me of summers he spent in Dogdyke on a farm owned by a Mrs Vintner. Another person who summered ...Read more

A memory of Dogdyke in 1930 by Josephine Wright

I'm only fourteen but still I have some amazing memories of Ferryside, generations of my family have lived here and i'm planning never to leave. Me and my mam, we're looking through all the pictures and everything seemed ...Read more

A memory of Ferryside

I lived there as a young child from about the ages of 2-14 years old (1960-early 1970s). As a young child Elmer Road seemed to be at the end of the world. The main road heading east hit a ...Read more

A memory of Middleton-on-Sea in 1969 by Barney Cotton

My grandfather, A J Hurd, was, for a time, Rudyard Kipling's head gardener at Batemans. He, my grandmother and my mother (now Joyce Richardson) and her sister (now Barbara Wainwright) lived in one of the cottages (which ...Read more

A memory of Burwash in 1920 by Ian Richardson