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I lived in Langdale House, Salford. It was a block of masonettes, there were two other blocks on the same road, Patterdale and Ennerdale. We lived on the 3rd floor, overlooking a small play park and a row of tiny one ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1960 by Ann Mc Kibbin

I never saw this part of the canal as shown in this photo, the opposite bank was the site of Frith's, the builders' supply company. My father was a salesman for Frith's for many years. The location was called ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury in 1956 by Doug Caton

This is Alan Edgar Fullwood's memory and the reference to Slinfold is right at the bottom of this narration: Edgar Fullwood was my father.  He was born in Birmingham England in what is to me the beginning of our history in 1875 on ...Read more

A memory of Slinfold in 1870 by Anne Robertson

The row of cottages on the left was where my great grandma and granddad brought up lots of kids and even took wartime evacuees. I remember Dinah from Wembley used to visit up to the 80s when she passed away. They were ...Read more

A memory of Rillington by Ian Vasey

We moved to Lyminge Close, Twydall in 1960 from our wartime built pre-fab in Wigmore when I was 15 months old. Pictured are the 'modern' post war shops but there was also an older red-brick parade opposite. Out of shot on the right of ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by John Fernandez

My Dad took on a job as Chaffuer to the Cordons, owners of Lofthouse Colliery in 1937, so I was one year old then. When war was declared my dad finished up as a fitter on the surface of the pit, he was also the ...Read more

A memory of Outwood in 1940 by Gordon Walker

In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more

A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by John S. Batts

I have fond memories of visiting my Grannie Graham, who lived in the miners rows. My Aunt Grace lived in Breith for years, she was actually the gala queen years roughly 1938. She was married to Jock Willkinson, had a daughter Agnes and ...Read more

A memory of Breich by Dorothy Sneddon

My grandfather, Mr Lambert was the village blacksmith and lived in Pier Road. The smithy, I recall, being at the end of the row of cottages in an alleyway. His home was flooded out in the 1953 floods and I would be very ...Read more

A memory of Lower Upnor in 1955

My Mum had a brother living at 'South View', Stoke Fleming and we spent many holidays with his family. There was an outside row of toilets with long wooden seats and you had to get a pail of water from the well next ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Fleming by Sheila Ayling