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Having moved into Walls Quarry with my husband in 1961, I too remember the snow. It started to fall on Boxing Day 1962. We had a job to get home from Gloucester by car during theafternoon. By March '63 it was still thick and frozen ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe in 1963 by Pauline Hill

We lived in Branton upto 1978 for 15yrs in St Vincent's Ave. As children we played in the Windmill at the top of the road, there was a staircase that ran to the top floor and then you went through a hatch onto this top ...Read more

A memory of Branton by Paul Dougan

My most fondest memories maybe seem weird, but was great to be with new friends that I made that day, and some that lasted through Secondary School. Byfleet Primary School will aways be in my thoughts, it is a shame a picture ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet in 1957 by Martyn Heath

The area where the Rose and Crown public house is situated was initially known as the "Bridge Street" hamlet. It is one of the very old inns of Enfield situated at the hollow between Whitewebbs Park and Hilly Fields. The road running ...Read more

A memory of Enfield by Roger Davis

In the 1970s I was a school girl at the old school building, in the 70s a small two classroom premises.  Those of us there, living in the village, were taught by the Head Mistress, my mother Mrs Jennifer ...Read more

A memory of Marhamchurch in 1971 by Ruth Newport

My parents Bryan and Margaret Hills-Johnes had the Flying Horse pub for a couple of years after he left the Navy 1958-60, I was around 6 yrs at the time and used to play with the Tilleys and Blacks. The car park across the road was a ...Read more

A memory of Smarden in 1960 by Rod Hills Johnes

Congleton Open Air Baths during the 50/60s. It had the entrance of a theatre, 2 steps up with an overhanging portico and glass doors that opened up to a foyer. It was well painted in the colours of the day, council green and ...Read more

A memory of Congleton in 1960 by Alec Coles

So you missed the last bus home, in my case to Castlemilk from St. Enoch's Square, after a night at the Locarno.  It is winter, cold, wet and windy and you know you have to do it.  Stand and wait for the number '2' bus to get me into ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1968 by Helen Clark

The shop at the top left (now the Kebab Shop) was, I think, Wards the Greengrocers, the second shop down was Graingers a card and toy shop, later a pet shop (now Pendley Estate Agents).  (Thanks to Rodney Grainger for the ...Read more

A memory of Bovingdon by Anne Broomhead

The Micheldever cottage with the steps facing the camera is where my mother Evelyn Rogers (nee Chalk) grew up with her brothers Alfred and Charles, and sisters Maude, Ivy, Kate (Kit) and later Ruby Hansford. Henry Arthur Gale Chalk ...Read more

A memory of Micheldever by Mike Rogers