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i was born at 15 charles st palmers buildings in 1948 i recall the dunns cotchers the macmullens the dents who used yo keep pigs in the back yard we would exchange tattie peelings for spangles as we were rationed i remember pissing in the ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by horsfieldf

The reason for writing is to mention some facts about life in Mangotsfield in the forties and fifties. After I was born I lived in no 32 Northcote road. My neighbors were Mr Hammond, Mr Isles, Mr Fry, Mr Britton, Mrs Spires and Mr ...Read more

A memory of Mangotsfield by mikeel

Hi we also lived in Thorntree gill number 65 .Have many memories even though we only live there for a few years 51 to 54.Went to Horden school use to walk there .Remember looking out of the bedroom window watching dad(Dick ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee by lesleymitchell

My dad was born in Kensington and went to butler street school from late 40s to late 50s. His name is Kenneth jackson or just ken. He always talks of the happy days and all his friends. His mums name was Louise and his ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool by jacksoncarol197

I was born in White Road in 1951 and went first to the nursery at Grace Road, where I remember a climbing net which was outside on a frame of some kind. It seemed huge. We had little blue camp beds ...Read more

A memory of Sparkbrook by magfrancis

My na me is Philip Stanway, I was bor n in 42 Jubilee street in November 1942 My best friend was ALan Bailey whom lived on Park road. New Mills was a great place to be growing up in at that time . So many open places, and the ...Read more

A memory of New Mills by phillip.stanway

I never actually lived in Failsworth, though I regularly passed through it when I lived nearby. I was born in the Clarksfield area of Oldham and moved to Chadderton when I was five years old. Since researching my roots over the ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth by kix_soccer

I was born in HARLETON STREET off Battersea Bridge Road around the corner to Battersea Police Station. My grandparents llived there as young newly weds and grandma gave birth to 11 children in the same house. My father ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by sylviawitham5

I was born in Burslem and lived on Waterloo Road across from Macintyres pottery from 1949 until 1957 when we moved to Lancashire. Macintyres had a clock tower and we would check it in the morning before leaving for school. I began school ...Read more

A memory of Burslem by smlowe

We moved to Swindon in 1957 from London (Wimbledon, actually) when my dad, a skilled engineer, got a job at Vickers Armstrongs at South Marston, with a brand new council house thrown in. In those post-war austerity days there was ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by besafisher