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My dad was posted from Strensall in Yorkshire to Nescliffe in the beginning of 1959. We took a steam train to Shrewsbury, then a bus to Nescliffe. At night the family of 3, plus cat in a basket, plodded across a ...Read more

A memory of Shrewsbury in 1959 by Kathryn Anson

Stopping briefly outside the Working Men’s Club, the meeting place on Saturday lunchtimes for us Groby footballers before away games, we pass the chippy, the old blacksmiths where the old ...Read more

A memory of Groby in 1970

What I am most interested in writing about is how Highgate Village has changed so much since my school days, growing up there in the 1960s. Today most of the shops are coffee shops, ...Read more

A memory of Highgate in 1965 by Robert Molesworth

Was the Wimpey Bar in Bellegrove Road to the Bexleyheath, or Shooters Hill side of the Twisted Wheel Coffee Bar which was at number 43?

A memory of Welling in 1963 by Brian Chanter

Known as Stocks Hill, on the left of the photo is the Coop Drapery Shop. At the side of the shop was an alley and the Coop Bakery was there. The house facing in the picture was Ted Witneys car repair yard, along High Street was ...Read more

A memory of Moulton in 1950 by Jackie Tyrrell

My Life in Rosedale Abbey - Raymond Beharrell During the last war my brother and I lived in York very near to the main railway yards. The area was always on the target for the German bombers, being railway sidings. ...Read more

A memory of Rosedale Abbey by fichrist

I spent some of the happiest years of my life in Harrogate, working in "The Grange" hotel (an old peoples home basically, along West Stray), I also worked in "Blind Jacks" behind the Prospect Hotel (we sold Old Peculiar ale and ...Read more

A memory of Harrogate by bornawkward

The shop on the right is Hobleys' Ironmongers. As a youngster I would buy my fishing tackle, airgun pellets, & sheath-knives there. I would gave in awe at the new Diana & BSA airguns that they stocked - ...Read more

A memory of Shepton Mallet by bru.enzer

St Andrews Church must have been at least a mile and a half from the Worseley Road council Estate where we lived from 1951 until 1960 at Hillside Crescent. From a very young age a group of us would walk there and back on a ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by miss_devinette

Looking across the Clydach Gorge from Pant-y-Beiliau Farm, before the Heads of the Valley Road was built. Brunant Farm in the middle of the picture. My grandparents’ house is in the middle left. The railway line ...Read more

A memory of Gilwern by Ian Wiggett