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My aunt Phoebe and uncle John George Charlton lived near the hump bridge crossing the Sunderland to Newcastle train line. We got off the bus at the Wheatsheaf pub travelling from Gateshead to walk about one hundred yards. ...Read more

A memory of Sunderland in 1940 by Les May

We moved into Earlsdon from Wales in 1965 and stayed with my aunty who lived in Belvedere Road. Such a big house with three floors and close to the Spencer Park tennis courts as I recall. The bus used to stop right outside the front door ...Read more

A memory of Coventry by Shirley Jones

I remember the railway station well, I used to travel to King's Lynn nearly  every week with my mum when my dad worked for the conservancy board as a coxwain on the pilot cutter. Can anyone remember the iron bridge that ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1962 by Marlene Hyland

My dad Eddie had a greengrocer's shop in Upminster in 1952, the year I was born. I know we lived in the flat above the shop, and it was quite near Upminster Bridge. Does anyone remember the shop?

A memory of Upminster in 1952

My grandparents, Charles Herbert and Maud Mary Epton, lived at 3 (later 11) Council Houses, Brothertoft, and my childhood holidays were always spent here. My dad was born in that house, as was his brother, and my grandparents ...Read more

A memory of Brothertoft in 1979 by Ann Epton

I first saw Littlehampton when my primary school made an end-of-year trip in 1963, and my memories were dominated by the figure-of-eight dodgems at the amusement centre, and some intrepid soul getting stuck in the river ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton by Tony Gorton

I have very early memories of Boxford Primary School. The school teachers were Mr and Mrs Alderman, Mr taught the older children and Mrs the young infants. I attended both, I started in the infants ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1964 by Michael Lipscombe

I was born in 1950, in the front room of 168, Wellington Road, Eccles. This was my grandparents' house. My mother, Barbara, worked as a telephonist for the GPO, at their exchange on Half Edge Lane. My grandad, Lionel Payne, was a ...Read more

A memory of Eccles by David Tootles.Thetaxi@Yahoo.Co.Uk

Just got back from a day out with my dad, he took me to show me where he spent a couple of years living in St Johns Village, he lived at Number 7 Warwick Lane (I think it was Warwick Lane. We walked from the main car park in the ...Read more

A memory of St Johns in 1942

Hi - I would very much like to find anyone that knew Patricia, Frank or Phyllis Osborn who were evacuated from Medway Homes in Kent to either 10 Bridge Street or 10 Wood street Gilfach Goch. Perhaps someone might know which school ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch by Marian Goater