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When Dad had the motorbike and sidecar it was okay for day trips, but when we went for the fortnight summer holiday the bike could not carry us and the suitcases, so we had to go by other means. To get to Bournemouth we ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth by Carole Baldwin

We lived in St Vincent Road, went bottling collecting bottles left on the beach and got the deposits back from the kiosks on the beach front, the some, the mean buggers only gave us half when they ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1953

I can also remember Bottle Alley which was the St Leonards side of the pier during the 1950's. My Mum sometimes used to take me to the Sun Lounge near Bottle Alley when I was a very small child where she would have a coffee and I ...Read more

A memory of Hastings in 1957

Does anyone else have any memories of 'Bottle Alley'? I think it was on the Promenade and it was a covered walk (built in Victorian times, I believe) of concrete encrusted with bottles, mainly the bottoms, in all sorts of patterns. ...Read more

A memory of Hastings in 1955

I was raised in Borth from 1952 until I went to sea in 1968 and it was still very much home and sanctuary at every opportunity until I moved to Australia in 1991.The second son of Aran and Eileen Morris of Bel-Air I remember ...Read more

A memory of Borth in 1952 by Alan Morris

My birth certificate 1938 says Roseneath; father was a gardner on the estate and have photos of the estate cottage. Also pictures of reputedly oldest trees in Scotland called Adam and Eve, probably long chopped down as castle. ...Read more

A memory of Rosneath in 1930 by William Hair

Norn at no 36 Main Road, mother Marion Simpson married to Frank Williams, schooled at Langley Primary School, Beech Hall Prep School and Macclesfield Grammar, worked at the blood transfusion ...Read more

A memory of Langley by Anthony Williams

I was born and bred in Allhallows-on-sea , as a child it was a very safe haven and full of wonderful adventures. Tree camps and corn fields.....the Beach and the marshes , that seemed to stretch on forever. ...Read more

A memory of Allhallows by Karen Belsey

In my 70th year, currently living in Canada, enjoying fond memories of my first 24 formative years , spent in Battersea: Bolingbroke Walk; Montefiore St; Elcho St and mostly in ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

I came down to Bognor with my family for a three week holiday every summer in the late 50s early 60s, first from Redhill and then from Godalming, Surrey It was mostly on the train, and the last time we came it was in ...Read more

A memory of Bognor Regis by Canon David Frost