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I went to St Wilfrid's Junior in Blyth. Great times, great memories. Rafts on the river at Cowpen, summer days up Humford and the hapenny woods. Days out at the Spanish City. Pit galas, the waltzer on the market place, ...Read more

A memory of Blyth in 1955 by Anthony Tolhurst

I was born in Blenheim Gardens in 1964 at my parents' house. I have great memories from the Tuffty Club through to starting school at the Primary in Aveley. Teachers that come to mind were Mrs Sykes and Mrs Southgate. The sports ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by Andrea New

I was born at the bottom of the Rawnsley Road, by the double bridges, known as Pool End, after Hednesford Park which used to be a pool. I was a Cub in the 1st Hazel Slade Scouts, our meeting place was at the church ...Read more

A memory of Hazelslade in 1950 by Peter Hawthorne

I am so please to have found this site. I was brought up in Lessingham Avenue (off Franciscan Road) but moved to Chasefield Road when i was about 11. I remember going to Saturday morning pictures at the Mayfair and singing the ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1961 by Linda Silver

I was brought up in Pode Hole from 1967, my mother Joan is still alive but now living in Spalding, sadly my Dad Ken died in the Fishermans Arms pub on Sept 23 1977. I have a brother Nigel and a sister Susan. We ...Read more

A memory of Pode Hole in 1967 by Stephen Cropley

I was born in Upper Clatford in 1945. I have fond memories the good and bad times. I went to the local school where we would draw on slates with chalks. I used to live in cottages now pulled down. There was a well at the bottom ...Read more

A memory of Upper Clatford by Maurice Owen

I grew up in the farm in the picture. My parents were Ern and Megan Sheppard. Dad delivered milk for many years, initially from churns carried around in a horse and cart and later the milk was in glass bottles from a ...Read more

A memory of Aberbeeg in 1940 by Annette Lewis (Sheppard

I've fond memories of playing over at the gravel pit down Dark Lane in Blackfield and when my dad drove for Hall Aggregates in the 1970s.

A memory of Blackfield in 1982 by Jamie Bynam

Who remembers the travelling fun fair that came to Blackfield in the 1960s? Did you go to Blackfield Junior school? What about skating on the frozen Gravel pits at Holbury in the winter 1962/3/4 or the Esso Cinema? or the ...Read more

A memory of Holbury in 1960 by Julian Bishop

Although I didn't live at Hamsterley Colliery, I spent all my school holidays with my grandmother, Mary Willis who lived in the top bungalow at Derwent Haven. She lived to be nearly a 100 which I suppose justified ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley by Trevor Black