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I was born in 1949 at home in West Wycombe Road and lived in the area until 1969. My family owned one of the two Corn & Seed Merchants businesses called Jones and Rivett Limited in Oxford Street and Dovecote ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1949 by Gerald Rivett

Street still looks much the same today. Photo is from early 60's though. Ford Anglia (centre left) didn't come out 'til Sept 59. 63 - 65 I'd say. "Charlie Hills" bus in the Circle is also 60's as is, I believe, The "Red and White" Bus pulling out of the Circle

A memory of Tredegar by I An P Enny

Aerial photo AFA77116TR: "Leiston from the Air 1959" Is a view taken looking toward the East and clearly showing the Garrett's "Bottom Works", which formed a large part of the town centre at that time. This very old facility, ...Read more

A memory of Leiston in 1959 by Derek Stanbridge

During the invasion scare of WW2, Porthpean beach was protected from seaborne landings by the Germans by having anti-landing craft defences built along the length of the beach at I believe, the low tide ...Read more

A memory of Porthpean in 1943 by Peter Marks

After dad got his first car, an Austin A30, he used to take me and my younger brother out for trips a little further afield, and Wire Mill Dam was one of our very favourite places. We'd be armed with a jam jar and ...Read more

A memory of Sheffield in 1959 by Jean Smith

My great great grandparents arrived in Redmire in the 1840s or thereabouts.   This photo was taken in 1929 when my mother would have been about nine or ten.  She was born in Redmire in 1921 to George and Ellenor Miller who had five ...Read more

A memory of Redmire by Josiephine Bell

Hello friends!  I am very interested to find out as much as I can about the former Our Lady's school which used to be on Church Road in Formby.  I'm interested more about the boys side ...Read more

A memory of Formby in 1949 by Patricia Aindow

The lady with the white coat and shopping basket on the right hand side of the photo is my grandmother - Clara Billington - and lovely to see her in print!

A memory of Ampthill in 1960 by Julia Lovell

John (1813) moved to Berkshire.  Thomas (1787), Robert (1759) and John(1738) are all connected to Loders by being born, baptised, married and buried here, or in surrounding villages.  Their ancestral home one might say.  Still ...Read more

A memory of Loders by Yoga Prakash Saraswati

My parents, Rose Marston and Roy Sopp were married in this church! I have the wedding photo of them standing in the side entrance.

A memory of Great Bookham in 1944 by Eunice Livingstone