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My mother s family lived on North row, the Sandersons, Grandfather Joseph and grandmother Phoebe, my aunt Rita, my mother Margaret, uncles Robert and Joseph, many happy memories of playing on the pit heap and going for ...Read more

A memory of East Holywell by Michael Bloxham

We moved to Mount 1962, I started school at Darran Las Infant School. Then moved on to the Comprehensive. How big it looked and the kids where so grown up. The grounds where just beautiful and the old house was incredible. The ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash by uksteveandsue

My family moved to Shard End in 1951 to 11 Freasley Road. The estate was in its first stages then, no shops and no bus service, it was a walk to Lea village for the bus across the old bailey bridge. There was a lot of open ground in ...Read more

A memory of Shard End by keng2009

Hi There is a book on Amazon Kindle called, THE PIT BLOCKS, By Agnes Kirkwood, for two pound five pence. It is all about a family living in the Blocks in Fallin. Hopefully it will brings a lot of memories back to all the ...Read more

A memory of Fallin by Agnes Kirkwood Martin

During the war I attended Sherwood Boarding School on Church Street and Downs Road. Behind the house was an abandoned and overgrown chalk quarry (The Pit) with an old cottage, our arts and crafts classrooms. The cottage is gone and it ...Read more

A memory of Epsom by Paul Erland

I was born in Rossington in 1952 and lived on Clay Flat Lane with my mum and dadTo & MAry Atkinson, brother John and sister Paula. Dad worked in Rosso pit for many years, like a lot of Rosso residents. Myearliest ...Read more

A memory of New Rossington by honeydog12

Alan Benfell, born 43. Moulton Avenue near Wellington School/Sutton Lane. Went to Wellington until about 52 then moved to Marshall Close off Wellington Road South. Went to Grove road for a couple of years then on to SGGS (Black ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Alan Benfell

I also lived 739 Ripple Rd prefabs i was born in the front bedroom in 1947 i went to Dawson and Camball school i remember the big house that stood between the prefabs the vinigar man and the bonfire nights on the open ground ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by moejoeinspain

How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” ...Read more

A memory of Barrington by masters.clifford2

Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. We were poor, as was everyone ...Read more

A memory of Birkenhead by dannytaylor1954