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I was evacuated to Drumlithie in September 1939 - being from Glasgow - and Germany was threatening war. I had just turned six years old. I lived in Ford Cottage - close to Kabog House - with Jim and Liz Scott. Went to school ...Read more

A memory of Drumlithie in 1930 by Bill Wyllie

There were four bakehouses in Kilbirnie; we had the Co-op bakery famous for their rolls, this was in part due the recipe and part due to the rolls being baked in the auld scotch oven. This type of oven gave a good soul to the ...Read more

A memory of Kilbirnie in 1960 by John Allan

Looking at this picture brings back memories of the Bridge Mission. You went down a alleyway, I think beside a tie factory and a shop called Grants. Because I had very small feet, the kind Mr Grant got my shoes in ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge by Valerie Sims

One of my earliest memories was as a child on a Sunday morning, still in my pyjamas, being driven to Madeley by my Dad to watch the trains go by. Standing on the footbridge, which is still there, and looking along the line ...Read more

A memory of Madeley in 1953 by Michael Cooke

At the end of Villiers Street and on the opposite side of Whitehall Road was an iron footbridge that crossed the railway line. There was a mechanical signal just below the bridge. In these days when private cars were a ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Philip Cousins

My sister, Helen, and I lived at No. 3 Plasnewydd Street and, although Helen now lives in Lechlade in Gloucestershire and I have finally come to rest (no, not dead - yet) in Cardiff, we talk every week and often reminisce ...Read more

A memory of Maesteg in 1947 by Nick Davies

My late husband & I moved into Stoke Lyne early 1981, and bought our beautiful bungalow next door to the "Peyton Arms", what a beautiful village, we were extremely happy there for some nineteen years wonderful neighbours, and ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Lyne in 1981 by Eve Hollands

My mother needed a rest and I had just had my tonsils out when I was sent to the House Beautiful for a fortnight. For some reason she told me it was a convalescent home but when I arrived I found it full of very boisterous ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1956 by Ruth Gorst

When the Second World War was declared, my family consisted of Mum and Dad, my elder brother Bob and my baby sister Ann. I was four, Bob was eleven and Ann was three. My father was a staff sergeant in the ...Read more

A memory of Penton Grafton in 1940 by David Fort

A new book "Memories of Dolphin - a climber's life remembered" celebrates the late great, Baildon-born, climber Arthur Dolphin. Compiled and edited by Hebden Bridge author Tom Greenwood, the book is ...Read more

A memory of Baildon in 1953