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A friend from work, and I took courses at the Neath Technical Institute. I left Swansea about 7:30am, and had to run down Mount Pleasant to the bus station in order to get to the Institute. For lunch we walked up town to a little ...Read more

A memory of Neath in 1947

I was visiting Llandanwg from 1958 until 1965. We used to stay in Dorwyn, which then was a green shed bungalow owned by Mrs Pearce, she used to work with my father and we used to go down sometimes twice a year. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Llandanwg

I too have happy and sad memories of Thurnscoe. I started school in 1952 at Hill Infants. Mrs Cartlidge was our teacher. I still remember where I sat behind the door and being given a small blackboard and chalk on my first day ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe in 1952

I moved from Holbeck in 1948 into one of the first estates to be built in North West Leeds, Ireland Wood (Raynels). In 1950 I went to Cookridge School, then a wooden hut right slap bang opposite where Cookridge ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge in 1950 by Paul Leavett

My friend Alison and I spent many happy hours drinking coffee in The Griddle and Grill on Gatley Green during the 1970s. My mother used to call in when she was at school too, although it was called 'Lawrences' then. As far as I know ...Read more

A memory of Gatley in 1970 by Margaret Hall

This is a favourite view of photographers taken from McIntyre's Boatyard. In the distance you can see St Bruoc's church which burnt down in 1956. In the foreground is a boat hiring station, one of three in the village. ...Read more

A memory of Port Bannatyne by John Stewart

St. George's Presbyterian Church stands in the forefront of this photograph between what was the Co-operative shop and Tommy Jones the fishmongers shop.   How long the Presbyterian Church has stood on this site ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1972 by Kathleen Green

This view has hardly changed, I have recently took a photo from about the same place and it is almost the same. The wall running in front of the church as gone now but the park on the left and the school wall on the right is still ...Read more

A memory of Worksop in 1959 by Barbara Whiteman

My Great, Great, Grandfather planted these trees which you can see running down the middle of the photo in 1883 when the cemetery was opened and they are still present to this day. His name was Henry Harris (1827-1911).  He ...Read more

A memory of Oystermouth in 1880 by Nicholas Johns

I first arrived in Llanegryn at the latter end of 1939 along with my younger sister and a lot of other kids from my school (St Johns)in Birkenhead. I was eight years old at the time and my sister was six. We were all put into the ...Read more

A memory of Llanegryn in 1930 by Bob Boyd