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My mother, Queenie Grounds, was the headmistress of Lynfield House School from 1946 until 1953, when we moved from Lynfield to The Homestead at the top of Sandringham Road, where it met Lynn Road. ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1946 by Valerie Curtiss (Grounds)

1952 - 1970. I recognise most of the names mentioned, even after all this time. My family name was Elley and most of my family still live in Rhydyfelin. With my immediate family I have moved about a bit ...Read more

A memory of Rhydyfelin by Brenda Hughes

My twin brother and I were born in 1969 and where brought back to a little terrace house on Springfield road (skid row)just over from Moorhouse building yard, growing up in what was a small village,everyone know everyone ...Read more

A memory of Bigrigg in 1969 by Paul Wilson

My memories are of working as a night care assistant from 1985 to 1990. Our work pattern was to work 7 nights on! This meant there was time during the shift to study and admire the fixtures and fittings throughout, ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand in 1985 by Linda Shaul

A few of my happy memories of living here in Kirkley Cliff opposite the Putting Green, went to school at was Alderman Woodrow Sec/School helped paint a fishing boat scene in the entrance, days on Trawlers /Drifters as ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft in 1948 by John Carr

My mother Elizabeth and my father, Graham Thomson, lived on a houseboat in Poole harbour during 1950 and 1951. I was a baby and they had to move to dry land when I became a toddler! My mother used to tell me ...Read more

A memory of Poole in 1951 by Nicole Thomson

I was born at no 10 Devonshire Street and remember the row of terraced houses and tiny cramped back streets, and loads of alleys and gennels where we played hide and seek. I was about 4 when Sheffield was bombed and remember ...Read more

A memory of Chesterfield in 1940 by Maureen Smith

Who remembers Inwood Park paddling pool and boating lake? The lake was more of a circular water course around a central island but you could use the little paddle boats - operated by handles that turned the paddles, if I remember ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1958 by Susan Coleman

I remember you, Donald,from when I was at Tredrizzick school. We had a lot of fun in the playtimes with marbles, skipping with a big rope and tag. There always seemed to be so much to do and we didn't know the meaning of the word ...Read more

A memory of St Minver in 1953 by Peter Leavers

Prior to WW2 I can remember my grandparents, both maternal and paternal, lived almost opposite each other in Tuskar Street, a working class area of Greenwich. This made it easy for my own parents to meet one another ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell in 1930 by Barry W J Chandler