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My mother is 83 years old, she lived at No.1 St Georges Terrace, her name before marriage was Joan Cowlishaw. She lived with her father, Jack, who was a french polisher and mother Olive, an older brother William, and ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Amanda Page

I'd like to ask if anyone knows of a brush factory in Cam which must date back about 100 years or more. I have a clothes brush which is in perfect condition and bears the title "WORKMAN Bros. Ltd. Cam. Glos." This brush was ...Read more

A memory of Cam by Dick Best

My memory of that fateful evening is somewhat hazy as I was completely blotto and fragments of what happened come to me in flashes... I was havind a few pints at The Goose & Pedophile when in walked ...Read more

A memory of Choppington by Richard Hell

Yes that's right. On a big corner turning from the London/Croydon Road. Feather Bed Lane seems to have ben so called as there were a number of poultry people along there. Mainly.. dreaded Geese! An Uncle, Aunt and cousin with ...Read more

A memory of New Addington by Olivia R S

My husband was a fireman at Gilfach Goch Fire Station 13 for nearly 23 years, as were many of my family - and some still there. The good old days they were.

A memory of Gilfach Goch by Jane Llewellyn Williams

I lived in Warton - on Borwick Lane for the first 18 years of my life. In 1963, I was ten years old and Warton was a lovely little village. Borwick Lane was very much a quiet back road - not the ...Read more

A memory of Warton in 1963 by Elizabeth Gower

In 1966 I was a bread roundsman delivering around the Chester area.My first drop was the Windy Ridge transport cafe in Kelsall.In those days there was no M56 and no bypass round the village so all the tankers from ...Read more

A memory of Kelsall in 1966 by Bill Telford

My husband Ronald Jones was in the childrens home The Home of the Good Shepherd in Hanley Swan from approx. 1938 to 1944. He was twelve when he left. He has many happy memories & some sad, of his time there. ...Read more

A memory of Great Malvern in 1930 by Winifred Jones

My wife at the time, Beryl White, and I rember this shop so very well, also the old Post Office at the bottom corner. We used to live at 16 Wilson Drive. Life was a struggle at that time. Then we moved out ...Read more

A memory of Moulton in 1966 by Robert White

I remember the High Street quite well. This photograph is looking north. Just up past the Police Station there was a cake shop, then a chemist shop (A J Mack), then there was Olby's, then the large shop, Rogers. Next was ...Read more

A memory of Penge by Anthony Godly