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My father worked in quality control at Millers for a couple of years in the early 1960s. He loved singing and one of my earliest memories is of him singing in what must have been the loading/packing bay. It had good acoustics! I was two or three years of age.

A memory of Parkstone in 1960 by Carolyn Hartley

Hello, I was born in Cairns square Buckhaven in 1949, sadly demolished in the early 60's I think. My gran lived there - I was born in her house before she moved to Bayview overlooking the bay and Mc Duff castle in the ...Read more

A memory of Buckhaven in 1960 by Robert Adams

Ah Whittlebury! Always knew that infamous dump would surface on the www sooner or later. A regime model for any totalitarian state, I still remember the oppression and dehumanisation that prevailed there, where the ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1960 by Simon Gwynn

I was a resident at the cottage homes from about 1960 for a few years, and again in the later 1960s and early 1970s. The building on the right is where the swimming pool was. We used to collect the key from the lodge at the front ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1960 by Lorraine Pritchard

Me and my mates had so much freedom to "play out". We all lived around William Hopwood Street in them days. I'd just left Audley Secondary Modern School, to begin an apprenticeship at Foster Yates & Thom, (Dad & ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn in 1960 by Dennis Godfrey

My Father Bill Owen made a lovely little caravan and pitched it on Gorselands caravan park in the mid to late 1950's through to 1966 and I enjoyed the most magical time of my life spending lots of long summer holidays with ...Read more

A memory of Swyre in 1960 by John Owen

At the age of fourteen I moved from Rhuthin to live with my gran, Ketura Roberts, who lived in one of the houses opposite the Castle Pub. The bus route was up Llysfaen Hill and past the Semaphore pub, this at the time had a butchers shop ...Read more

A memory of Llysfaen in 1960 by Anthony Roberts

You'll all go "Oh yes", when I jog your memory that Seaview was formerly named 'Kite Farm Camp'. It changed its name to Seaview around '61/62 when Arthur Fitt the garage owner on the other side of the station bought it ...Read more

A memory of Swalecliffe in 1960

My Family moved in to N0 9 East Cliff in 1960, we moved from an old cottage across the beach where I was born in 1955. The cottage was demolished & some Garages were built in the place of the two cottages. Many people ...Read more

A memory of West Bay in 1960

I was at Hutton poplars home from 1960-1965, started in Fal house Miss Creffield,was house mother, then 1962 moved into Dart house with the same housemother Miss Creffield until 1964, I spent last year in Thames ...Read more

A memory of Shenfield in 1960 by Alan Loxton