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The Transport Department at Southmead Hospital when I joined them consisted of an officer, foreman, and four porter drivers, with two buses, three vans, and two cars. We were responsible for ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1960 by Arthur Cottrell

I remember during the 1960's taking my pony to the blacksmith in Uppington,we lived at Eyton-on Severn then. We used to go along the cart tracks across the Beckamoors to Donnington, up past the Streffords farm ...Read more

A memory of Uppington by Margaret Clutton

My family lived in Gladstone Road, Micham opposite Terry Bull's coal yard and I can still hear the coal men calling "coal man, coal" as they left and returned to the yard. 'Uncle ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Trudy Simpson

My sisters and I are Birchington born and bred and as far as I'm concerned growing up in Birchinton in the late fifties and early sixties was the best place in the world. My mum would collect my sisters from Sunday school ...Read more

A memory of Birchington by David Fleck

As a child my family lived on a farm about two miles from Hepple village. Like my 2 older brothers I attended the primary school at nearby Hepple. I started my school life there in August 1961 and remember being upset ...Read more

A memory of Hepple in 1965 by Norman Anderson

How many of us as fresh faced five year olds, on our very first day at school, look around the classroom and think ‘will any of these children be classed as ‘true’ friends fifty years from ...Read more

A memory of Groby in 1961

My great-grandad was William Henry (born 29th June 1846 in Finsbury, London). As a very young man he worked as a wood carver and stayed with his uncle Samuel Howard at 2 Kay St., Chorlton on Medlock. Its a mystery ...Read more

A memory of Ardwick in 1860 by John Howard Norfolk

I remember moving to Rhuallt. I was 3 or 4 yrs old and on my first day at school, Miss Jones the infants teacher took me to see a swallows nest so my mother could go home. Roller skating down the old road straight on ...Read more

A memory of Rhuallt in 1960 by Rosemarie Bower

I used to be friends with Lily Austin; she lived on a farm which you had to walk down a long driveway to. I was friends with her from school. Also I remember my great aunt called Mona, her mother in law ...Read more

A memory of Tremeirchion by Rosemarie Bower

I was born in Nanty in 1947, I lived on High Street. My dad was Tom Bevan and I went to Nanty Infants School. I remember as a child playing down by the river with my friends and my mam shouting at me because I was getting ...Read more

A memory of Nantyffyllon in 1956 by Pauline Woods