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Hi I remember standing on the top of Bearmore Bonk watching the Codsall Villa football team on a Sunday morning with my now gone mate Reg Genard. Rembering my cousin Wacker Walker and his manger Big George shouting as if at ...Read more

A memory of Cradley Heath in 1960 by Leslie Partridge

I lived at 24 letterstone st from 1957 -68 it was pulled down under CPO my mum and were Bill and Elsie Kennedy I went to Heyworth st school 57 to 63 ~secondary school was Toxteth Tech god knows why me folks ...Read more

A memory of Everton in 1966 by David Kennedy

I was still at school when the Queen came to Chelmsford for the first time. I don't know what the occasion was, nor the year, but at the time my father, Roy Iliffe, was working as a ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by Susannah Handley

On the subject of railway bogies (handcarts), for two years each Sunday morning in the late Fifties I used to propel one, laden to the gunnels with newspapers, from Monkseaton station, through Souter Park, down Hawthorn Gardens to the ...Read more

A memory of Whitley Bay in 1958 by Colin Henderson

as a child growing up in cross street which was just off new st i remember there being a laundry opposite my home and sid perks coal yard was this the bag wash??

A memory of Wednesfield in 1949 by Roy Horden

I think browning road was where the north star pub was which I regularly drunk in (when I was 18)Someone was talking about families in browning rd tho holloways was one I think they had a son called Brian who I went to school ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1953 by Colin Mudd

I started life at the North Middlesex Hospital in January 1940. The 2nd World War causing damage all over. I lived with my Mum and Dad at St Mary's Gardens in Lower Edmonton. During the Battle of Britain, our house ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton by Ron West

I was born at Link House at the bottom end of The Drift in 1948. Me dad was Bob Henderson and me Mam was Jessie. My Grannie and Grandpa Keen lived at The Drift and then moved to Hadstone, where we moved to in the 60s. Most of me ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton by Ann Newcity

I remember this beach well, especially the open air swimming pool which is also on a photograph here in this collection , I remember going on a school swimming session weekly ( Preston High school ) now john spence and dreading ...Read more

A memory of Tynemouth in 1966 by Neil Critchlow

I remember this so well, what wonderful innocent memories! My siblings and I would get a bus every day there and back from North Camp where we lived. I too remember the pink bus passes we had to guard with our lives. The ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1966 by Denise Reardon