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You mention the Embassy Ballroom in Welling. I first started going there in 1953 (when I was 14 but looked older as you needed to be 16 to get in!) and carried on going until I went into the Army (National ...Read more

A memory of Welling by Ken Taylor

Ahh, I rememeber it well, strolling down past the church towards home with DD, you see my wife was away and I couldn't help myself. 36 years of wedded bliss up in smoke. Little walks by the canal and kissing on the ...Read more

A memory of New Hutton in 2010 by Andy Robson

How funny, a friend got in touch with me through this web site, she said I got lost in the park because we had one of those terrible fogs that were green, couldn't see a hand in front of your face. I was wandering around trying to find the ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by Pamela Mather

I used to live at this address and went to Brionne Gardens Girls School (now Hillview). I loved living here, the estate agents we lived over is still there, I know this as I went back for a visit with my son in 2008 after 40 odd ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1960 by Linda Thompson

With big hugs from waiting family on one of the many platforms that was Central Station, we hurried though the noise and clouds of steam towards the station exit and into the sunlight...my ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1940 by Raymond Hay

I lived in Devonshire Road from 1941 to 1962 and when we first arrived Intake ended with Warwick Road, Argyll Avenue and Cumberland Avenue for those of us that lived on this side of ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1944 by Frank Mowforth

I was born in Calverley in 1948. I lived with my mother, father and brother (Ernest). I attended Calverley Church School. I played down in the woods most of the time, with my brother and our friends. My brother was a bully ...Read more

A memory of Calverley in 1956 by Gloria Conroy

Joe Richards went on to be Headmaster of Pontygof Boys School. I went there from 1958 to1962 and remember these teachers: Mr Davies, Mr Jones who always used to sell stamp approvels from the draw in his desk where he also ...Read more

A memory of Ebbw Vale in 1958 by Clive Morgan

My only memory of Whitefield is turning out to play football for Manchester YMCA in a league fixture away from "home" in 1967. It was a reserve team game, we paid our own bus fares to reach the park, I ...Read more

A memory of Whitefield in 1967 by John Howard Norfolk

Since I have left Robymill I have missed the freedom and the joys of the village. I now live in Wigan and always think of my memories as a child and teen years. I went to Robymill Primary School, Mrs Baxendale was my ...Read more

A memory of Upholland Sta in 1994 by Danielle Haymes