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This photo is fairly unique since it shows the Camp at Bryngolau, Trawsfynydd, where the Royal Artillery Summer Camp was located for 2 years from 1903 before establishing a more permanent camp 2 miles south at Bronaber in 1905, where it remained until about 1958.

A memory of Trawsfynydd in 1900 by Keith O'brien

My granddad, Arthur Walker, was a miner at South Kirkby colliery until his retirement around 1960; and my dad, Richard Edwin Walker, known as Ted to his mates, was a blacksmith. Dad started at the colliery when he left ...Read more

A memory of South Kirkby in 1957 by Roy Walker

I grew up in Hove in the 1950s in Connaught Terrace, a small, seemingly insignificant road of terraced houses just around the corner from this church. The structure behind the church spire in this photo is a gas holder. The streets ...Read more

A memory of Hove in 1958

I lived in Temple Fortune about a mile north of Golders Green up the Finchley Road, along which passed buses and trolleybuses going up to Finchley and Barnet, and south to Baker Street, Trafalgar Square and London. In the 1940s ...Read more

A memory of Golders Green in 1953 by R Stonhold

I have a copy of the 1841 census which shows my great-great-grandparents and child living at 71 (?) Talywain, Trevethin, they are as follows: Williams James age 35   blacksmith   born Carmarthensire, Llaneli Williams ...Read more

A memory of Cwmavon

In the summer of 1952 I learnt that my parents had decided to move from our home in the Midlands to the West Country as my father wished to return to where his relatives lived. It came as no surprise therefore, when one day they ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth in 1952

I was born on August 2 in 1949 at Croxdale Hall Durham. It was seconded after the war from the Salvin family presumably because of shortages of materity hospitals. My mother was Elda Stonebank, one of 13 family and well known in the ...Read more

A memory of Burnhope in 1949 by John Coates Farrow

My granddad used to stay here and mum said it was a lovely Victorian hotel, very comfortable, it became a Trust House hotel, I believe but was pulled down in the early sixties. Amazing to think all the traffic to the south ...Read more

A memory of Horsham in 1955 by John Skinner

I lived at 200 South Rd. I remember the names Paul Lambillion, Brian Crudgington and Clive Vellacott. After passing the 11+ I went to school in Gidea Park and lost contact with the Ockendon gang.

A memory of South Ockendon by Bill Whalley

From February - September 1944, my newly wed Dad and Mum had as their home a Fishermans Hut at Two Mile Bottom. We aren't 100\% sure, but we think it was some 400m south south west of the power station on the east bank of ...Read more

A memory of Two Mile Bottom in 1963 by Philip Marsden