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My name is Matthew Mason and my granma Florence Breary, previously Mason, and Coxon before that, lived at 20 Ridding Road and some of the happiest and warmest memories I have were of the time I spent from my birth in 1961 to ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning in 1966 by Matthew Mason

My Mum Valerie Merrikin, nee Nichols, was born next to the old pub (recently knocked down) in Skeffington. Grandad Nichols worked at the hall and got the sack because he picked ...Read more

A memory of Billesdon in 1974 by Nigel Waterfield

My grandparents come from Elsecar and Wentworth, in Mill Lane, you may have seen the Roundhouse,Can`t miss it really just up from Pondside. When my real grandad died my grandmother remarried a man named Stanley Horn from Harley. ...Read more

A memory of Elsecar in 1952 by Susan Sutton

My grandmother Rose nee Shufflebottom and my grandad Samuel Rayson who was a miner at the Wakefield pits in around the 1920s would love to know more about their history and see old pictures of Cudworth in and around Somerset ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth

My Grandparents lived in Kelloholm on Anderson Street, Number 31 or 32. I remember my Grandad used to be the caretaker at the school in Kirkconnell. They then lived in the Toll House. My Grandad's name was Alexander (Sanny) ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm by Margaret Davison

My mother originated from Nelson Village and took us for our first visit when I was twelve years old. Her father (Joseph Heslop) worked down the pits, sadly he passed away before I was born. We met another ...Read more

A memory of Nelson Village in 1985 by Davina Smith

My mother and her family were born and bred in Leasingthorne, my grandfather was a miner at the pit, as were my two uncles. My grandparents were Robert and Ethel Wilson and had 5 children, Jack, Ruby, Lilly, Irene and ...Read more

A memory of Leasingthorne in 1951 by Denise Talbot

Newbiggin was the place I was brought up and spent many happy years on the sands and in the sea until I was 18. Life then took me to London to train to be a teacher. My parents had a house in Windsor Terrace where dad still lives ...Read more

A memory of Newbiggin in 1970 by Mary Heynes

During the last year of the war I was evacuted to Allerton Bywater. When I arrived we were stood on the stage of the village hall and I was the last one left when a Mr and Mrs Parkinson, who already had 4 children, took ...Read more

A memory of Allerton Bywater in 1944 by John Smith

My husband recently took me on a trip down Memory Lane to Ash Vale. I am 76 years old and can remember everything so vividly, having been evacuated there during the war years. We lived in Balmoral Road and my mother became friendly ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale in 1945 by Maureen Thurston