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My Dad was a sergeant in the RAF; along with Mum (Jean), brother Robert, and sister Carol we lived in married quarters in Medmenham. I remember Roddy Banks and Chris Waillin and the big ...Read more

A memory of Medmenham in 1959 by Chris Carr

I remember 60 years ago a character known locally as 'Daw Barr'; he used to go around collectng beer bottles in a sack carried over his shoulder which at that time you could take back and exchange for money, or in Daws case ...Read more

A memory of Wishaw by Peter Chalmers

Good times. No electric, log fires, paraffin lamps, everything cooked on the old faithful black lead grate which I had to clean every week. No running water - my job every night when I got home from school was to get the ...Read more

A memory of Four Ashes in 1954 by Michael Jones

We lived on Gas Street. My family name was Gilder and my parents names were Leonard and Olga nee Carless. My cousins Pamela (nee Gilder) and Gerry Lees still own the Gilders Fishing Tackle Shop in Failsworth. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Failsworth in 1957 by Susan Beech

We stayed at a clifftop house called Mill Meadow. Once we parked the car behind the wooden double gates, there was a pine-tree lined steep hill that led to the house and then to cliffs. I remember that pine smell when we ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Fleming in 1967 by Matthew White

I was four years old when I moved to Gilfach Goch with my sister Pauline and my dad Samual James Carson and my mam Sybil (Mills), she was from Gilfach and so was most of her family. We lived with my Gransher, Mark ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch by Joyce Williams

I believe the Watney’s pub on the left of the picture was The Red Lion. In 1962 I was a lad of sixteen and worked at Blundells Shoe Shop. From the photograph this would have been behind the cameraman. I live in America now ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1962 by Barry Hawgood

I was a pupil at St Catherine's School between 1954 and 1962. The school was run by Ralph and Joyce Cooper. Teachers I remember are Mr Thunder, art teacher, Mr Smith, and Miss Muriel Stottart, who taught ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury in 1954 by Maurice Fountain

I have always known it as Ushers, although I remember it being run by a Mr. Fisher who has a teenage daughter who had a pony....I remember her being very kind to me when I was a little girl. I remember her singing a song ...Read more

A memory of St Martins in 1960 by Thelma Ellis

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