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1965. Wes and me got back from the Smoke wi nought and needed a job, he got started at the leather works on Scotchy Road and I got started at the Lead Works which is now the site of the Arena. There were two sides to this place, the ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1965 by Jimmy Burrows

I lived on Leigh Road within spitting distance of Hilton Park. I worked at Leiigh Infirmary as a Cadet then Pupil Nurse. My dad played in Bedford Church Band. My social life was going to the The White Horse on ...Read more

A memory of Leigh in 1968 by Dorothy Merga

I am writing this on behalf of my Dad, Harold Holmes nicknamed Tiny who is still alive at the age of 91, the oldest male born in Saltfleet. He was born in Saltfleet in 1919 son of the local baker Alfred & Elizabeth Holmes. Educated ...Read more

A memory of Saltfleet in 1920 by Sheena Mee

I was born in Barnet, but lived in Hatfield, 9 miles away. My grandfather was a stonemason and his father Walter Skinner had a Stonemasony business in East Barnet Road. Walter's father came from Wakerley, Northants, where ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1900 by Christine Newman

In l984 my sister, Christine Ramsey/Taylor wrote to me at my home in Texas asking if I would like to share a holiday cottage with her and her three children. She had booked in at Cromer and had rented an old fisherman's cottage, ...Read more

A memory of Cromer in 1984 by Janet Ramsey

I was a day boy between 1966 and 1970. I was always in trouble and spent most of my meals on the punishment table. The ruling was tyranical, you had to eat everything on your plate and couldn't leave the table until you had ...Read more

A memory of Bradford-On-Avon in 1968 by David Hammond

My memories are the Halford family, James, Hannah Halford, and their children Michael, Beverley and Gaynot Halford, we lived at 34 Moorcroft, Plumley, my mum died in 1970, resting in Lower Peover Church. We grew up most of childhood ...Read more

A memory of Plumley by Beverley Halford

Does anybody have any information on the Cummings family? The head of the family was Herbie and his wife was Annie. They lived on the council estate at the bottom of the village.

A memory of Easington in 1960 by Michael Brown

I was also born at the Semon Convalescent Home in 1943, my mother was booked into St Lukes for my birth but was sent here instead, I often wondered what the home was like. I have visited Ilkley many times and never did find the home, now I know why.

A memory of Ilkley in 1943 by Jeanne Platt,Nee Wilson

My family roots are in Hatch Beauchamp from Samuel born c.1827 and Elizabeth [nee Pearce] SLADE. During their lives they lived in Hatch Beauchamp, North Curry, ...Read more

A memory of Hatch Beauchamp by Jacqui Davis