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Wes Coulthard and me decided to go to the smoke to try our luck,this was early sixties. Wes had worked in London before for a building company called Higgs & Hill so we decided to give it a go as we had just been laid off. It ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1964 by Jimmy Burrows

I have a picture at home with my great-great-grandmother feeding chickens by the trees on the left taken around 1880. My great-great-grandfather, Joseph Smith, was the village wheelwright. I have relatives who have ...Read more

A memory of Wheaton Aston by Steve Evans

I remember, has a young boy going up to Spencers farm (next to the church) to help Mrs S collect eggs. I also helped with the milking,cail cutting and potato picking, Bill (son) would collect us from the village green (the ...Read more

A memory of Tamworth in 1966 by Patrick Derwin

Yea, I used to live in Brickfield Cottage just across from the swing bridge, and I remember carrying Nipper over that bridge with a compound fracture of his thigh, as he fell off the Wigs sheds, lol, we were borrowing pigeons from the sheds, lol.

A memory of Runcorn in 1949 by John Millward

I have loved this view of the Mill ever since first discovering it as a young man of 17 or so in the early 1950s, and I have a virtually identical photograph of my own taken at that time. Sadly however I found on a ...Read more

A memory of Fittleworth in 1954 by Ian Newton

I lived on the Isle of Wight from the early 1930s until roughly 1943.We lived at several different locations, Cranmore being one of them. I remember as a small child Mrs Jordan's shop. I also have vague ...Read more

A memory of Cranmore in 1930 by Claire Spencer

I lived in Cadogan Avenue with my Nan & Grandad Mizen, Mum and Dad until we moved to Hutton when I was about 4. My Nan lived there until she died in 2001, God bless her. I have so many happy childhood memories with ...Read more

A memory of West Horndon in 1965 by Karen Kavanagh

or thereabouts. Blackcurrant picking somewhere in the Drayton area, the smell of them today knocks 60 years off my age. Used to go fruit-picking during the Summer holidays with Janet Basham who lived on Highland Road, ...Read more

A memory of Drayton in 1949 by Pat Bye

The bottom of Silver Street on the other side of the bridge ended at the river with some railings over a drainage outlet.  This was a good place for children to get into the river from the middle of the village and paddle upstream ...Read more

A memory of Abridge in 1962

The Rivera!! Once a week after school in 1964- 65, a group of us (mostly 6th-formers from the Grammar School, which was co-ed by that time) used to gather upstairs in the Rivera Restaurant (on the right ...Read more

A memory of St Austell in 1964 by Elke Langmaid Love